Total Emergency Relief Program in Polk County, Florida, 2023
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 61
Recipients of Total Emergency Relief Program from farms in Polk County, Florida totaled $8,188,000 in in 2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Emergency Relief Program 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Victor B Story Jr Revocable Trust | Babson Park, FL 33827 | $109,622 |
| 22 | Myers Groves Inc | Lakes Wales, FL 33959 | $104,392 |
| 23 | Vonann Groves Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $76,345 |
| 24 | Vdm Holdings LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $75,897 |
| 25 | Floyd- K Devane Sr R K Devane Sr | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $57,249 |
| 26 | Mark Wheeler Groves Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $49,013 |
| 27 | Quentin J Roe | Winter Haven, FL 33882 | $45,177 |
| 28 | Thayer Farms Inc. | Dundee, FL 33838 | $43,540 |
| 29 | B V G Groves Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $43,305 |
| 30 | Forts 14 Groves LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $37,956 |
| 31 | Double O J Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $35,485 |
| 32 | , | $34,409 | |
| 33 | Story Groves Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $34,163 |
| 34 | Growers Investment Group LLC | Lakeland, FL 33813 | $31,698 |
| 35 | Kenneth Devane Groves Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $30,949 |
| 36 | Story Citrus Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $28,750 |
| 37 | Dale E Albritton | Alturas, FL 33820 | $24,356 |
| 38 | Paul J Collins | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $22,795 |
| 39 | Emil R Jahna III | Babson Park, FL 33827 | $19,016 |
| 40 | Bowlegs Creek Groves LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $18,883 |
* 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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