Farm Subsidy information
Polk County, Florida
Total Subsidies in Polk County, Florida, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flying V Inc | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $1,690,515 |
| 2 | Lightsey Cattle Company LLC | Lake Wales, FL 33898 | $1,589,280 |
| 3 | Imperial Tropicals | Lakeland, FL 33805 | $1,427,090 |
| 4 | Wheeler Farms Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $1,382,298 |
| 5 | Travis Resmondo Sod Inc | Dundee, FL 33838 | $1,350,000 |
| 6 | Urban Tropical Inc | Lakeland, FL 33810 | $1,168,018 |
| 7 | Bell Apiaries LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $1,092,797 |
| 8 | Sun Grown Citrus LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $1,086,328 |
| 9 | Putnam Groves Inc | Bartow, FL 33831 | $1,024,870 |
| 10 | Ben Hill Griffin Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $980,866 |
| 11 | Thelma C Raley Inc | Winter Haven, FL 33882 | $953,786 |
| 12 | Joe Dawson | Winter Haven, FL 33884 | $944,825 |
| 13 | Sunrise Tropicals Inc | Lakeland, FL 33809 | $925,962 |
| 14 | G 7 Ranch | Lake Wales, FL 33853 | $851,288 |
| 15 | Ridge Investments LLC | Lakeland, FL 33813 | $823,301 |
| 16 | Tree O Groves Inc | Lake Alfred, FL 33850 | $792,662 |
| 17 | Roger Wright | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $777,829 |
| 18 | B H G Inc | Frostproof, FL 33843 | $758,838 |
| 19 | Hunt Brothers Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $758,053 |
| 20 | Cbm Groves Inc | Lake Wales, FL 33859 | $748,053 |
* 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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