Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) in Merced County, California, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 200
Recipients of Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) from farms in Merced County, California totaled $821,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Price Loss Coverage Program (PLC) 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Billy Grissom Fertilizer Spreading LLC | Hilmar, CA 95324 | $10,002 |
| 22 | Forebay Farms LLC | Merced, CA 95344 | $9,671 |
| 23 | Double Diamond Dairy & Ranch | El Nido, CA 95317 | $9,528 |
| 24 | Healy Ranch | Merced, CA 95341 | $9,329 |
| 25 | Frank Coelho & Sons Lp | El Nido, CA 95317 | $8,559 |
| 26 | Don Arburua | Los Banos, CA 93635 | $8,185 |
| 27 | Bettencourt & Marson Dairy | Hilmar, CA 95324 | $7,800 |
| 28 | Larry B. Peterson Dairy Farms | Hilmar, CA 95324 | $7,575 |
| 29 | Hugh Yamshon | Merced, CA 95341 | $7,364 |
| 30 | George L Jones Farming LLC | Dos Palos, CA 93620 | $7,351 |
| 31 | Sierra Vista Dairy Lp | Denair, CA 95316 | $6,939 |
| 32 | F & A Lemos Dairy | Turlock, CA 95381 | $6,594 |
| 33 | 3 Machado Dairy Inc | Merced, CA 95341 | $6,211 |
| 34 | Antonio Azevedo | El Nido, CA 95317 | $6,010 |
| 35 | Alexandrina Azevedo | El Nido, CA 95317 | $6,010 |
| 36 | Mike K Kleiber | Le Grand, CA 95333 | $5,899 |
| 37 | Dores Dairy Ptn | Stevinson, CA 95374 | $5,810 |
| 38 | Menefee & Sons II | Los Banos, CA 93635 | $5,554 |
| 39 | Brindeiro Danbom Dairy Farms Gp | Turlock, CA 95380 | $5,060 |
| 40 | Kent M Hirdes | Turlock, CA 95380 | $4,980 |
* 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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