Total Disaster Programs in Rhode Island, 2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 109
Recipients of Total Disaster Programs from farms in Rhode Island totaled $6,286,000 in in 2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Disaster Programs 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Beach Oyster Company LLC | Wakefield, RI 02879 | $1,402,191 |
| 2 | Harry F Whilden III | North Kingstown, RI 02852 | $453,656 |
| 3 | Shellfish For You, LLC | Westerly, RI 02891 | $428,085 |
| 4 | East Beach Farms LLC | South Kingstown, RI 02879 | $385,578 |
| 5 | Rocky Rhode Oyster Co, LLC | Wakefield, RI 02879 | $319,316 |
| 6 | Walrus And Carpenter Oysters, LLC | Providence, RI 02909 | $305,941 |
| 7 | Finca Faisan Inc | Des Moines, IA 50311 | $278,804 |
| 8 | , | $258,829 | |
| 9 | Rome Point LLC | North Kingstown, RI 02852 | $248,752 |
| 10 | Sakonnet Oyster Co Inc | Little Compton, RI 02837 | $219,930 |
| 11 | Mooresfield Oyster Farm LLC | Narragansett, RI 02882 | $196,288 |
| 12 | Allen Harbor Oyster Inc | Saunderstown, RI 02874 | $185,344 |
| 13 | Aquidneck Island Oyster Company LLC | Wakefield, RI 02879 | $148,486 |
| 14 | , | $121,002 | |
| 15 | Blackbird Farm, LLC | Smithfield, RI 02917 | $120,070 |
| 16 | Quonnie Oyster Co Inc | Wakefield, RI 02880 | $100,355 |
| 17 | Jaswell's Farm LLC | Smithfield, RI 02917 | $87,176 |
| 18 | A Joseph Sprague | Block Island, RI 02807 | $68,441 |
| 19 | David W Carpenter | Wakefield, RI 02879 | $61,433 |
| 20 | Sweet Berry Farm | Middletown, RI 02842 | $59,890 |
* 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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