Farm Subsidy information
Benzie County, Michigan
Total Subsidies in Benzie County, Michigan, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 29
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Benzie County, Michigan totaled $687,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeping Bear Apiaries Ltd | Beulah, MI 49617 | $89,087 |
| 2 | Gregory Gilroy | Arcadia, MI 49613 | $55,353 |
| 3 | Ronald Gillison | Arcadia, MI 49613 | $26,375 |
| 4 | Grays Fruit Farm Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $24,623 |
| 5 | Henry Orchards Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $16,555 |
| 6 | Putney Beef Or Fruit Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $15,779 |
| 7 | Larry A Lathwell | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $14,312 |
| 8 | Gary Wayne Lathwell | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $14,305 |
| 9 | Lentz Farms Inc | Honor, MI 49640 | $14,056 |
| 10 | Martin Smeltzer Orchards LLC | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $10,140 |
| 11 | Evans Brothers Fruit Company | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $10,025 |
| 12 | Miller Brothers Orchard | Bear Lake, MI 49614 | $6,674 |
| 13 | Zane R Gray | Interlochen, MI 49643 | $6,380 |
| 14 | Nugent Family Farms | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $6,099 |
| 15 | Gordon Sauer | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $5,887 |
| 16 | Alan Kobernik | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $5,263 |
| 17 | Skyline Orchard Of Frankfort | Elberta, MI 49628 | $4,394 |
| 18 | Crystal View Orchards Inc | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $3,701 |
| 19 | Gerald L Johnson | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $1,735 |
| 20 | Nugent Orchards LLC | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $1,623 |
* 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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