Total Disaster Programs in Lee County, Florida, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 13 of 13
Recipients of Total Disaster Programs from farms in Lee County, Florida totaled $939,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Disaster Programs 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aris Horticulture Inc | Alva, FL 33920 | $200,000 |
| 2 | Florida Citrus Company | Alva, FL 33920 | $168,622 |
| 3 | B. Keith Councell | Cape Coral, FL 33993 | $132,654 |
| 4 | Alva Land Management Associates, | Winter Garden, FL 34787 | $131,462 |
| 5 | Nch Palms LLC | Pineland, FL 33945 | $119,094 |
| 6 | Farm Op Inc | Immokalee, FL 34143 | $55,209 |
| 7 | Arcadia Citrus Enterprises Inc | Fort Myers, FL 33902 | $32,574 |
| 8 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $29,279 |
| 9 | Green's Citrus Groves, Inc. | Fort Myers, FL 33906 | $18,422 |
| 10 | Thomas A Swenson III | Fort Myers, FL 33905 | $16,509 |
| 11 | Generations Farm South LLC | Alva, FL 33920 | $13,890 |
| 12 | Esli Ryan Vinson | Fort Myers, FL 33905 | $12,368 |
| 13 | Robert J Davidson | Saint James City, FL 33956 | $8,919 |
* 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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