Tree Assistance Program in Polk County, Florida, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 25
Recipients of Tree Assistance Program from farms in Polk County, Florida totaled $513,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Tree Assistance Program 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thayer Berry Hill LLC | Dundee, FL 33838 | $176,948 |
| 2 | Wheeler Farms Inc | Lake Placid, FL 33862 | $34,332 |
| 3 | Stokes Groves Inc | Bartow, FL 33830 | $31,252 |
| 4 | Southern Blue Nurseries LLC | Dundee, FL 33838 | $27,008 |
| 5 | Martin Land LLC | Winter Haven, FL 33880 | $25,304 |
| 6 | King Groves Inc | Winter Haven, FL 33881 | $24,972 |
| 7 | Tms Groves Llp | Dundee, FL 33838 | $22,040 |
| 8 | T-two Groves | Dundee, FL 33838 | $20,819 |
| 9 | Legacy Groves Inc | Avon Park, FL 33825 | $16,121 |
| 10 | Estes Groves Inc | Vero Beach, FL 32960 | $15,296 |
| 11 | Reclamation Trees L P | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $14,756 |
| 12 | Denton Groves Inc | Greenwood, SC 29649 | $12,861 |
| 13 | Max J Duke | Avon Park, FL 33825 | $11,844 |
| 14 | Orange And Blue Groves Inc | Winter Haven, FL 33884 | $11,158 |
| 15 | Family Acres Inc | Lakeland, FL 33801 | $10,459 |
| 16 | Samuel Thayer | Dundee, FL 33838 | $10,023 |
| 17 | Gbs Groves Inc | Winter Haven, FL 33884 | $9,889 |
| 18 | Blucher & Bertha Inc | Sebring, FL 33871 | $9,258 |
| 19 | Elliott Investments LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $7,592 |
| 20 | Forts 14 Groves LLC | Fort Meade, FL 33841 | $7,397 |
* 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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