We've had several million searches in the past week, since we updated the EWG Farm Subsidy Database (on Dec. 17) with data for more than $21 billion in payments for 2005. We're now tracking 11 years' worth of farm subsidies from taxpayers totaling nearly $165 billion.

We reset the counter on Nov. 29, 2004, after logging 150 million searches or more. We've since seen 72+ million more searches and are racking up about 200,000 or so a day. You can get a sense of the traffic by simply refreshing the main (map) page and checking the counter at the upper left.

Our most popular links? Top recipients, of course. You can find top recipient lists at the national, state, county and congressional district levels, and for many different programs and subsidy categories.

For example, here is a list not often viewed--the top recipients of disaster payments.

Of course, we'll see some important changes in top recipient listings after we finish analyzing and post the Sec. 1614 tracking database we obtained from USDA last week.

It won't be long.