In 2004, only 15,000 people received $10,000 or less. Actually, the total number of people who received anything at all is about 15,062.
You know, you have 600 employees to administer cheques to 15,062 farmers, the vast, vast majority of whom got less than $10,000. It just seems like a heck of a lot of bureaucracy to deliver so little to so few.