Emergency Conservation Program in Highlands County, Florida, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 14 of 14
Recipients of Emergency Conservation Program from farms in Highlands County, Florida totaled $765,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Emergency Conservation Program 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Farms Corp | Belle Glade, FL 33430 | $200,000 |
| 2 | Happiness Farms Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $142,906 |
| 3 | Lightsey Family Ranch LLC | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $116,292 |
| 4 | Smoak Groves Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33852 | $72,794 |
| 5 | Moreno Ranches Inc | Venus, FL 33960 | $62,122 |
| 6 | Carl M Wilburn | Simms, TX 75574 | $44,391 |
| 7 | Tadala's Nursery Inc | Southwest Ranches, FL 33332 | $34,897 |
| 8 | Lee Lightsey | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $31,094 |
| 9 | Jack Paul Properties Inc | Wauchula, FL 33873 | $20,814 |
| 10 | Highland Farms Inc | Indialantic, FL 32903 | $13,413 |
| 11 | Bender LLC. | Winter Haven, FL 33882 | $11,001 |
| 12 | Lightsey Cattle Company LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $8,558 |
| 13 | Crescent K Bar E Inc | Sebring, FL 33870 | $6,052 |
| 14 | D P Partners Ltd | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $1,042 |
* 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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