Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments in Highlands County, Florida, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 203
Recipients of Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments from farms in Highlands County, Florida totaled $8,090,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Wildfires and Hurricane Indemnity Program Payments 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lykes Bros Inc | Okeechobee, FL 34974 | $899,999 |
| 2 | Sebring Citrus Ranch LLC | Winter Garden, FL 34777 | $490,825 |
| 3 | Happiness Farms Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $439,606 |
| 4 | S Y Hartt & Son Inc | Sebring, FL 33870 | $346,035 |
| 5 | Robert J Barben Inc | Avon Park, FL 33825 | $260,687 |
| 6 | Smoak Groves Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33852 | $248,175 |
| 7 | Selph Enterprises Dba Caladium Wo | Sebring, FL 33871 | $228,812 |
| 8 | Hendry Caladiums Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $208,268 |
| 9 | Phoenix Groves LLC | Sebring, FL 33871 | $185,549 |
| 10 | Lake Huntley Bulb Farm Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $171,197 |
| 11 | Terry Reynolds | Lake Placid, FL 33852 | $164,797 |
| 12 | Davis Enterprises Inc | Avon Park, FL 33825 | $148,140 |
| 13 | Pioneer Grove Inc | Okeechobee, FL 34972 | $126,204 |
| 14 | C Elton Crews Lllp | Avon Park, FL 33826 | $120,248 |
| 15 | Crutchfield Groves Inc | Sebring, FL 33870 | $113,595 |
| 16 | Amir Ahmad | Lakeland, FL 33813 | $104,259 |
| 17 | Venus Grove Company Inc | Tampa, FL 33611 | $101,580 |
| 18 | Goodfellas Land & Citrus LLC | Maquoketa, IA 52060 | $97,950 |
| 19 | Griffin Family Limited Prt | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $91,849 |
| 20 | Henry Crutchfield Inc | Sebring, FL 33871 | $89,200 |
* 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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