Tree Assistance Program in Hillsborough County, Florida, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 26
Recipients of Tree Assistance Program from farms in Hillsborough County, Florida totaled $525,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Tree Assistance Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sizemore Groves | Plant City, FL 33566 | $80,206 |
| 2 | Strickland Properties Limited Par | Tampa, FL 33617 | $42,867 |
| 3 | Sunscape Tree Farm, Inc. | Plant City, FL 33565 | $39,481 |
| 4 | Cee Bee's Grove Inc | Odessa, FL 33556 | $39,364 |
| 5 | Sizemore Growers Inc | Plant City, FL 33567 | $33,246 |
| 6 | Council Growers Inc | Ruskin, FL 33570 | $33,245 |
| 7 | Hopewell Land Partners LLC | Winter Haven, FL 33882 | $30,401 |
| 8 | Ultra Farms LLC | Wimauma, FL 33598 | $27,272 |
| 9 | Grady Sweat Farms Inc | Balm, FL 33503 | $24,998 |
| 10 | Simmons Family Grove Inc | Labelle, FL 33975 | $20,950 |
| 11 | Willaford Groves LLC | Plant City, FL 33565 | $20,715 |
| 12 | South Hills Grove LLC | Tampa, FL 33618 | $19,228 |
| 13 | T C Carr Holdings LLC | Apollo Beach, FL 33572 | $18,070 |
| 14 | Cecil Buzbee Farms Inc | Ruskin, FL 33570 | $13,790 |
| 15 | Lane Groves Inc | Tampa, FL 33611 | $12,500 |
| 16 | Inactive Lane Cattle Co Dairy | Tampa, FL 33611 | $12,500 |
| 17 | J C Valenti Irrevocable Grove Tru | Odessa, FL 33556 | $12,500 |
| 18 | Esfandiar Shafii | Tampa, FL 33618 | $7,788 |
| 19 | Travis Council Groves LLC | Ruskin, FL 33570 | $6,989 |
| 20 | Clark Cattle & Citrus Inc | Lakeland, FL 33810 | $6,292 |
* 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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