Roger L Richardson received payments totaling $1,382,941 from 1995 through 2006
Roger L Richardson: Summary | Programs | Programs by year | Farm Location(s) | Recipient ownership share(s)
Pick a county U.S. Total Somerset County, MarylandWorcester County, Maryland
Year Conservation Subsidies Disaster Subsidies Commodity Subsidies Total USDA Subsidies
1995-2006
1995 $0 $0 $39,624 $39,624
1996 $3,655 $0 $34,803 $38,458
1997 $3,500 $0 $19,352 $22,852
1998 $0 $0 $85,961 $85,961
1999 $3,345 $0 $160,600 $163,945
2000 $0 $0 $160,416 $160,416
2001 $19,010 $0 $248,446 $267,456
2002 $46,353 $0 $37,259 $83,612
2003 $18,992 $32,778 $53,008 $104,778
2004 $20,460 $0 $109,402 $129,862
2005 $20,460 $4,250 $146,510 $171,220
2006 $20,460 $0 $94,297 $114,757
Total $156,235 $37,028 $1,189,678 $1,382,941
Crop Summary for Roger L Richardson
Crop Payments
1995-2006
Corn Subsidies $847,323
Soybean Subsidies $279,269
Wheat Subsidies $61,013
Sorghum Subsidies $1,052
Barley Subsidies $666
Counties where payments were made from
County Subsidy Payments
1995-2006
Somerset County, Maryland $3,050
Worcester County, Maryland $1,379,891
Total $1,382,941
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SECRETARY
ROGER L. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Agriculture
Office of Secretary
Department of Agriculture
Wayne A. Cawley, Jr. Building, 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401 - 8960
(410) 841-5880
e-mail: richarrl@mda.state.md.us
web: www.mda.state.md.us
Secretary of Agriculture since March 15, 2007. Acting Secretary of Agriculture, February 1, 2007 to March 15, 2007.
Member, Board of Regents, University System of Maryland, 2007-; Governor's Executive Council, 2007-; Governor's Council on the Chesapeake Bay (Governor's Chesapeake Bay Cabinet), 2007-; Governor's Subcabinet for International Affairs, 2007-; Smart Growth Subcabinet, 2007-. Chair, Governor's Intergovernmental Commission for Agriculture, 2007-; Renewable Fuels Incentive Board, 2007-. Board of Directors, Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation, 2007-. Member, Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Board, 2007-; Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, 2007-; Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee, 2007-; Climate Change Commission, 2007-; Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays, 2007-; State Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council, 2007-; Maryland Food Center Authority, 2007-; Maryland Horse Industry Board, 2007-; Maryland Pandemic Influenza Coordinating Committee, 2007-; Mid-Atlantic Poultry Health Council, 2007-; Pesticide Advisory Committee, 2007-; Rural Legacy Board, 2007-; Rural Maryland Council, 2007-; Seafood Marketing Advisory Commission, 2007-; Scenic and Wild Rivers Review Board, 2007-; State Soil Conservation Committee, 2007-.
Member, Task Force on Renewable Alternative Fuels, 2007.
Supervisor, Worcester County Soil Conservation District, 1972-77. Member, State Committee Maryland Agriculture Stabilization Committee, 1976-80 (presidential appointment). Member, Board of Education, Worcester County, 1983-93 (president, 1992-93; vice-president, 1990-92). Chair, Maryland Farm Service Committee, 1993-2000 (presidential appointment). Chair, Board of Review, Department of Agriculture, 1993-2007 (member, 1987-93). Member, Agricultural Stewardship Commission, 2005-06. Member, Farmland Preservation Committee, Worcester County.
Born in Worcester County, Maryland, April 30, 1934. Grain farmer. Charter member, Snow Hill Grain, Inc., 1966-. Founder, agricultural trucking company, 1980-. Manager, Dividing Creek Public Drainage Association, 1973-. Board of Directors, American Corn Growers Association, 2003-. President, National Association of Farmer-Elected Committees, 2005-06 (1st vice-president, 2003-04). Advisory Council, Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology. Member, Worcester County Farm Bureau. President, Snow Hill Grain Co-op. Past president, Snow Hill Lions Club. Married; two children, six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren.
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If my memory serves me correctly, the 2007 farm bill approved by the Congress required disclosure of these subsidies. Prior to 2007, it was not disclosed.
ReplyDeleteThe crafters of the farm bill even tried to exclude the disclosure requirements. I'll have to look at the proposed section.
One thing for sure, the transparency should make the debate for future subsidies very interesting.
Why not call it what it is? Welfare.
ReplyDeletesure pays to be in politics. sjd
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. To me it seems like a conflict of interest for a political person representing a particular group (i.e. farmers) to be getting any subsidy of any kind. That person should be able to be financially objective and, the way I see it, there is no way to do that if they are on the public doll. Very self serving and 'dumb like a fox.' Basically, a bunch of farming 'fat cats' riding around in big trucks and not working for most of the year because there is no need to. Just another layer to pass onto taxpayers. This guy is going to the mailbox every year and getting a check for over $100,000.00--must be nice.
ReplyDeleteThat $1 Million won't begin to cover his expenses. Go check the prices on Farm equipment, seed, spraying,diesel,fuel (farm eq. does not use gasoline)renting land and so forth. He cannot tend the # of acres he does with one tractor and combine, so than go count his tractors, grain hauling trucks, hired help to plow, disc and mow, insurance and other endless expenses. Having a job with the State of Maryland is not a conflict of interest receiving federal government subsidy. Most farmers have to work off the farm part-time or the wife has to work
ReplyDeleteDear 8:37,
ReplyDeleteI read your blog and I think you must be his wife. The costs you outlined look to me like the cost of doing business. What other businesses do you know get a handout like the farm subsidies outlined? The only one I know of is oil and that isn't right either. You said that farmers have to work part-time doing other things so the 'wife doesn't have to work.' Well, incase you missed it we are in 2008 and almost all wives have to work. It's a luxury to be a non-working wife not a right. You need to listen to what you are saying.