Tobacco Payment Program in the United States, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 292,858
Recipients of Tobacco Payment Program from farms in the United States totaled $51,136,000 in from 1995-2023.
Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Tobacco Payment Program 1995-2023 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Barnes Farming Corp | Spring Hope, NC 27882 | $55,704 |
2 | Bobby Wetherington | Hahira, GA 31632 | $40,307 |
3 | Worthington Farms Inc | Greenville, NC 27834 | $34,044 |
4 | O Wayne Kelly | Sanford, NC 27330 | $33,443 |
5 | G & R Farms | Glennville, GA 30427 | $31,136 |
6 | Deas Bros Farms Inc | Jennings, FL 32053 | $30,716 |
7 | Tull Hill Farms Inc | Kinston, NC 28501 | $27,802 |
8 | Graham L Cole | Moultrie, GA 31788 | $27,406 |
9 | Rocky Thompson | Adel, GA 31620 | $26,369 |
10 | Ham Farms LLC | Snow Hill, NC 28580 | $25,835 |
11 | Jimmie Ross | Carthage, NC 28327 | $25,107 |
12 | Horace Randle Wood | Thurmond, NC 28683 | $24,660 |
13 | R Hart Hudson Farms Inc | South Hill, VA 23970 | $24,478 |
14 | D & D Tobacco Farms | Register, GA 30452 | $24,175 |
15 | James Keith Smith | Four Oaks, NC 27524 | $24,092 |
16 | Daniel H Lewis Farms Inc | Orrum, NC 28369 | $23,541 |
17 | Richard L Tyson Jr | Nashville, NC 27856 | $22,864 |
18 | Wayne Edwards Farms | Whitakers, NC 27891 | $22,043 |
19 | R D Lee Farms Inc | Erwin, NC 28339 | $21,606 |
20 | G Brownie Gainey Jr | Laurel Hill, NC 28351 | $21,560 |
* 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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