Tobacco Payment Program in Georgia, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 5,805
Recipients of Tobacco Payment Program from farms in Georgia totaled $3,380,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Tobacco Payment Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby Wetherington | Hahira, GA 31632 | $40,307 |
| 2 | G & R Farms | Glennville, GA 30427 | $31,136 |
| 3 | Graham L Cole | Moultrie, GA 31788 | $27,406 |
| 4 | Rocky Thompson | Adel, GA 31620 | $26,369 |
| 5 | D & D Tobacco Farms | Register, GA 30452 | $24,175 |
| 6 | Defair Farms | Statesboro, GA 30459 | $21,218 |
| 7 | Graham L Cole Sr Estate | Moultrie, GA 31776 | $20,295 |
| 8 | Franklin D Burch | Screven, GA 31560 | $19,024 |
| 9 | George Russell Dockery | Ambrose, GA 31512 | $13,858 |
| 10 | Lee Ivey | Lakeland, GA 31635 | $13,691 |
| 11 | The Langdale Company | Valdosta, GA 31603 | $12,951 |
| 12 | Bobby Williams | Whigham, GA 39897 | $12,488 |
| 13 | James David Thornton | Screven, GA 31560 | $12,048 |
| 14 | Charles Kenneth Bennett | Moultrie, GA 31788 | $12,042 |
| 15 | Michael Parrish | Twin City, GA 30471 | $12,000 |
| 16 | Taylor Trusts Farms LLC | Stone Mountain, GA 30087 | $11,761 |
| 17 | B G Wetherington Farms L P | Hahira, GA 31632 | $11,631 |
| 18 | K & J Farms Ptn LLC | Poulan, GA 31781 | $11,602 |
| 19 | Fred M Wetherington | Hahira, GA 31632 | $11,554 |
| 20 | Loyd Houston Moore | Tifton, GA 31794 | $11,516 |
* 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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