Farm Subsidy information
Polk County, North Carolina
Total Subsidies in Polk County, North Carolina, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 42
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Polk County, North Carolina totaled $770,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunny Creek Farm Inc | Tryon, NC 28782 | $145,797 |
| 2 | Jeffrey A Searcy | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $140,841 |
| 3 | Charles William Gibbs Jr | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $100,908 |
| 4 | Kimberly P Kay | Tryon, NC 28782 | $22,183 |
| 5 | Steven Hardin | Columbus, NC 28722 | $18,293 |
| 6 | Big Frog Nursery Inc | Columbus, NC 28722 | $17,259 |
| 7 | Stuart K Walker | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $12,621 |
| 8 | Benjamin Loran Lynch | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $10,161 |
| 9 | Bruce R Edwards | Tryon, NC 28782 | $9,572 |
| 10 | Jerry Wayne Shields | Columbus, NC 28722 | $8,514 |
| 11 | Looking Glass Creamery LLC | Columbus, NC 28722 | $7,033 |
| 12 | Mitch Randy Moss | M Ill Springs, NC 28756 | $5,401 |
| 13 | Savannah Salley | Columbus, NC 28722 | $5,330 |
| 14 | Randall Smith | Columbus, NC 28722 | $5,239 |
| 15 | Kevin J Scruggs | Columbus, NC 28722 | $3,938 |
| 16 | Richard Danny Ruff | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $3,934 |
| 17 | Parker-binns Vineyard LLC | Mill Spring, NC 28756 | $3,856 |
| 18 | Michael Lee Duncan | Rutherfordton, NC 28139 | $3,256 |
| 19 | Matthew J Page | Tryon, NC 28782 | $2,728 |
| 20 | Lavonda P Turner | Columbus, NC 28722 | $2,618 |
* 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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