Crop Disaster Assistance Program in Rhode Island, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 115
Recipients of Crop Disaster Assistance Program from farms in Rhode Island totaled $2,529,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Crop Disaster Assistance Program 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confreda Farms And Produce | Hope, RI 02831 | $719,900 |
| 2 | Alfred P Defazio | Cranston, RI 02921 | $302,495 |
| 3 | David S Frerichs | Warren, RI 02885 | $95,389 |
| 4 | Raymond J Polseno | Cranston, RI 02921 | $75,756 |
| 5 | Richard Manfredi | Westerly, RI 02891 | $70,689 |
| 6 | Wishing Stone Inc | Little Compton, RI 02837 | $67,484 |
| 7 | Perreault Farms Inc | Hope Valley, RI 02832 | $55,680 |
| 8 | Aquidneck Turf Inc | Portsmouth, RI 02871 | $48,992 |
| 9 | Jeff Gardner | Wachapreague, VA 23480 | $47,461 |
| 10 | Arthur Mello | Tiverton, RI 02878 | $47,459 |
| 11 | Michael Perugino | Cranston, RI 02921 | $46,084 |
| 12 | Gerald J Delisle | Portsmouth, RI 02871 | $43,940 |
| 13 | Michael Perugino | Cranston, RI 02921 | $40,886 |
| 14 | Confreda Greenhouses | Hope, RI 02831 | $39,712 |
| 15 | Sunset Orchards Inc | North Scituate, RI 02857 | $37,073 |
| 16 | Maplewood Farm | Portsmouth, RI 02871 | $32,447 |
| 17 | Brian Simmons | Middletown, RI 02842 | $30,079 |
| 18 | Riverview Farms Inc | Tiverton, RI 02878 | $29,630 |
| 19 | Piti Orchards LLC | North Scituate, RI 02857 | $27,888 |
| 20 | Richard R Johnstone | West Kingston, RI 02892 | $25,490 |
* USDA data are not "transparent" for many payments made to recipients through most cooperatives. Recipients of payments made through most cooperatives, and the amounts, have not been made public. To see ownership information, click on the name, then click on the link that is titled Ownership Information.
** EWG has identified this recipient as a bank or lending institution that received the payment because the payment applicant had a loan requiring any subsidy payments go to the lender first. In 2019, the information provided to EWG by USDA began to include the entity that received the payment, rather than the person or entity that applied for it, which was previously provided. This move to shield subsidy recipients from disclosure enables USDA to further evade taxpayer accountability. Six percent of subsidy dollars went to banks, lending institutions, or the Farm Service Agency.”
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