Non-insured Disaster Assistance in Polk County, Florida, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 29
Recipients of Non-insured Disaster Assistance from farms in Polk County, Florida totaled $643,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Non-insured Disaster Assistance 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Willie Lee Stewart | Davenport, FL 33837 | $95,554 |
| 2 | Roger Wright | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $65,519 |
| 3 | Lightsey Cattle Company LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $62,355 |
| 4 | Dewey R Fussell | Polk City, FL 33868 | $57,998 |
| 5 | Orfiblue Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $54,636 |
| 6 | Yates Air/yates Cattle Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $46,522 |
| 7 | D W Bass Enterprises LLC | Lakeland, FL 33809 | $42,806 |
| 8 | Aaron Brown | Lakeland, FL 33809 | $39,815 |
| 9 | Stuart Fitzgerald | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $26,412 |
| 10 | Bush Cattle Company LLC | Winter Haven, FL 33880 | $25,734 |
| 11 | Ned Leo Waters | Bartow, FL 33831 | $17,584 |
| 12 | G 7 Ranch | Lake Wales, FL 33853 | $16,840 |
| 13 | Evergrene Sod Co Of Lakeland Inc | Lakeland, FL 33809 | $16,729 |
| 14 | Jared Walker Wright | Winter Haven, FL 33880 | $15,455 |
| 15 | Shannon J Johnson | Polk City, FL 33868 | $14,842 |
| 16 | Diamond C Ranch Polk City LLC | Polk City, FL 33868 | $8,578 |
| 17 | Edna L Combee | Polk City, FL 33868 | $7,020 |
| 18 | Flying V Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $6,360 |
| 19 | Advantage Cattle Company Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $6,098 |
| 20 | Earlow Costine | Lakeland, FL 33809 | $4,596 |
* 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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