Misc. Disaster Payments in Gaston County, North Carolina, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 47
Recipients of Misc. Disaster Payments from farms in Gaston County, North Carolina totaled $214,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Misc. Disaster Payments 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobby Bess | Cherryville, NC 28021 | $30,164 |
| 2 | Richard Eugene Hamrick | Lawndale, NC 28090 | $20,091 |
| 3 | Mary H Proctor | Bessemer City, NC 28016 | $14,730 |
| 4 | Melvin L Kiser Jr | Bessemer City, NC 28016 | $13,096 |
| 5 | Charles D Hamilton II | Lincolnton, NC 28092 | $11,880 |
| 6 | Maple Springs Farm LLC * | Iron Station, NC 28080 | $10,189 |
| 7 | Harold R Lineberger | Iron Station, NC 28080 | $9,990 |
| 8 | Guy R Beam Jr | Cherryville, NC 28021 | $8,995 |
| 9 | Harold R Oates | Gastonia, NC 28052 | $8,760 |
| 10 | Samuel E Crawford | Kings Mountain, NC 28086 | $8,662 |
| 11 | A B Flowers Jr | Cherryville, NC 28021 | $8,399 |
| 12 | Eaker Dairy Inc * | Cherryville, NC 28021 | $8,204 |
| 13 | Kenneth L Howe Sr | Gastonia, NC 28056 | $5,992 |
| 14 | G K & Ken Davis Inc * | Crouse, NC 28033 | $4,763 |
| 15 | Kenneth P Oates | Gastonia, NC 28052 | $4,160 |
| 16 | Stephen B Secrest | Lincolnton, NC 28092 | $4,005 |
| 17 | Commodity Credit Corporation/fsa ** | Dallas, NC 28034 | $3,782 |
| 18 | Richard Daniel Rhyne | Mount Holly, NC 28120 | $3,623 |
| 19 | Tony G Cooper | Bessemer City, NC 28016 | $2,949 |
| 20 | George Bennett Allen | Cherryville, NC 28021 | $2,858 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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