Farm Subsidy information
Polk County, Florida
Total Subsidies in Polk County, Florida, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 2,833
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Polk County, Florida totaled $258,355,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | John Stephens Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $714,531 |
| 22 | Lake Hancock Partners Lllp | Highland City, FL 33846 | $710,309 |
| 23 | Rolling Meadow Ranch Inc | Rushville, NE 69360 | $702,719 |
| 24 | Stokes Groves Inc | Bartow, FL 33830 | $694,528 |
| 25 | Yates Air/yates Cattle Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $690,004 |
| 26 | Florida Best Farms Inc | Haines City, FL 33845 | $684,057 |
| 27 | Alico Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $678,261 |
| 28 | Jimmy Cook | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $668,736 |
| 29 | H C Dairy Farm Inc | Lakeland, FL 33810 | $666,254 |
| 30 | Lightsey Bros Partnership | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $650,758 |
| 31 | Griffin Family Limited Prt | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $633,335 |
| 32 | D C Cattle Inc | Eagle Lake, FL 33839 | $611,065 |
| 33 | Rlf Cypress Landholdings LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $591,200 |
| 34 | Gapway Grove Corp | Auburndale, FL 33823 | $575,286 |
| 35 | Thayer Berry Hill LLC | Dundee, FL 33838 | $574,960 |
| 36 | Dewey R Fussell | Polk City, FL 33868 | $559,336 |
| 37 | Heifer Hill Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $550,000 |
| 38 | V-w Tropical Fish Hatcheries Inc | Lakeland, FL 33810 | $541,806 |
| 39 | Devane Citrus Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $515,811 |
| 40 | South Property Holdings LLC | Boca Raton, FL 33486 | $513,808 |
* 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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