Coronavirus Food Assistance Program - Round 2 in Polk County, Florida, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 603
Recipients of Coronavirus Food Assistance Program - Round 2 from farms in Polk County, Florida totaled $13,670,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Coronavirus Food Assistance Program - Round 2 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightsey Cattle Company LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $445,775 |
| 2 | Wheeler Farms Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $415,530 |
| 3 | Florida Best Farms Inc | Haines City, FL 33845 | $385,614 |
| 4 | Putnam Groves Inc | Bartow, FL 33831 | $370,071 |
| 5 | Story Grove Service Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $311,723 |
| 6 | Heifer Hill Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $300,000 |
| 7 | Peace River Packing Company | Lakeland, FL 33813 | $253,614 |
| 8 | Phillip Rucks Citrus Nursery Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $250,000 |
| 9 | Fernandez And Son's Harvesting, L | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $242,743 |
| 10 | V-w Tropical Fish Hatcheries Inc | Lakeland, FL 33810 | $217,410 |
| 11 | Reclamation Trees L P | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $214,889 |
| 12 | Thelma C Raley Inc | Winter Haven, FL 33882 | $205,235 |
| 13 | Southern Citrus Nurseries LLC | Dundee, FL 33838 | $188,134 |
| 14 | Cbm Groves Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $171,589 |
| 15 | Tree O Groves Inc | Lake Alfred, FL 33850 | $151,711 |
| 16 | G 7 Ranch | Lake Wales, FL 33853 | $146,355 |
| 17 | Flying V Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $138,762 |
| 18 | Griffin Family Limited Prt | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $132,235 |
| 19 | S & D Orchards | Orlando, FL 32806 | $130,205 |
| 20 | Ben J Schroeder | Bakersfield, CA 93308 | $124,258 |
* 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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