Subtotal, Disaster Payments in Florida, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 25,057
Recipients of Subtotal, Disaster Payments from farms in Florida totaled $1,410,000,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Subtotal, Disaster Payments 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evans Properties Inc * | Vero Beach, FL 32963 | $13,402,859 |
| 2 | Premier Citrus LLC * | Vero Beach, FL 32966 | $8,919,393 |
| 3 | Fellsmere Joint Venture Llp * | Fellsmere, FL 32948 | $7,939,363 |
| 4 | Lykes Bros Inc * | Okeechobee, FL 34974 | $7,705,293 |
| 5 | Running W Citrus * | Fort Myers, FL 33916 | $7,429,678 |
| 6 | Tesoro Groves Limited Partnership * | Fort Myers, FL 33916 | $4,878,280 |
| 7 | Graves Brothers Company * | Vero Beach, FL 32960 | $4,786,538 |
| 8 | Bernard A Egan Groves Inc * | Fort Pierce, FL 34946 | $4,613,745 |
| 9 | Pratima Jester D/b/a Jester Bee C | Mims, FL 32754 | $4,160,126 |
| 10 | South Fort Meade Land Management * | Bowling Green, FL 33834 | $3,159,640 |
| 11 | Riverland And Indian Sun Lc * | Wauchula, FL 33873 | $3,029,694 |
| 12 | Star Farms Corp * | Belle Glade, FL 33430 | $2,886,243 |
| 13 | Blue Goose Growers LLC * | Fort Pierce, FL 34945 | $2,784,047 |
| 14 | Sorrells Groves Inc * | Arcadia, FL 34265 | $2,733,535 |
| 15 | Becker Holding Corporation * | Fort Pierce, FL 34981 | $2,714,746 |
| 16 | Luella R Bell | Deland, FL 32720 | $2,691,275 |
| 17 | Ben Hill Griffin Inc * | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $2,656,694 |
| 18 | Wheeler Farms Inc * | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $2,592,705 |
| 19 | Kennedy Groves Inc * | Vero Beach, FL 32967 | $2,551,133 |
| 20 | Estate Of V C Hollingsworth Sr * | Arcadia, FL 34266 | $2,537,931 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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