Total Commodity Programs in Benzie County, Michigan, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 33
Recipients of Total Commodity Programs from farms in Benzie County, Michigan totaled $905,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Commodity Programs 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeping Bear Apiaries Ltd | Beulah, MI 49617 | $132,537 |
| 2 | Evans Brothers Fruit Company | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $125,465 |
| 3 | Putney Beef Or Fruit Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $102,377 |
| 4 | Lentz Farms Inc | Honor, MI 49640 | $76,407 |
| 5 | Gregory Gilroy | Arcadia, MI 49613 | $70,397 |
| 6 | Ronald Gillison | Arcadia, MI 49613 | $68,622 |
| 7 | Henry Orchards Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $59,984 |
| 8 | Grays Fruit Farm Inc | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $47,743 |
| 9 | Greystone Gardens | Honor, MI 49640 | $37,380 |
| 10 | Zane R Gray | Interlochen, MI 49643 | $27,735 |
| 11 | Larry A Lathwell | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $25,717 |
| 12 | Gary Wayne Lathwell | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $25,684 |
| 13 | Crystal View Orchards Inc | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $13,826 |
| 14 | Martin Smeltzer Orchards LLC | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $11,973 |
| 15 | Gerald L Johnson | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $11,870 |
| 16 | Lost Lake Farm LLC | Honor, MI 49640 | $11,533 |
| 17 | Skyline Orchard Of Frankfort | Elberta, MI 49628 | $7,851 |
| 18 | Champion Hill Farm | Beulah, MI 49617 | $6,488 |
| 19 | Scott Nugent | Benzonia, MI 49616 | $6,299 |
| 20 | High Oaks LLC | Frankfort, MI 49635 | $6,068 |
* 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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