Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) in Texas, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 160
Recipients of Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) from farms in Texas totaled $28,834,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R&g Fish, LLC | Port Lavaca, TX 77979 | $9,924,038 |
| 2 | Ekstrom Aquaculture LLC | El Campo, TX 77437 | $5,019,934 |
| 3 | Mark Ryan Kubecka | Palacios, TX 77465 | $2,878,964 |
| 4 | St Martin Aquaculture Inc | Palacios, TX 77465 | $2,198,302 |
| 5 | Gulf States Aquaculture LLC | Palacios, TX 77465 | $1,843,495 |
| 6 | Jrs Aquaculture Farm Inc | Palacios, TX 77465 | $1,431,093 |
| 7 | Texas Mariculture - Carancahua Bay Lp | Palacios, TX 77465 | $1,309,381 |
| 8 | Crystal Waters Seafood, Inc. | League City, TX 77573 | $447,478 |
| 9 | Fannin Bank ** | Bonham, TX 75418 | $398,295 |
| 10 | Austwell Aqua Farm Inc | Austwell, TX 77950 | $271,680 |
| 11 | Thomas Honey Farms Inc | Liberty, TX 77575 | $255,664 |
| 12 | David Stroope | Sanger, TX 76266 | $210,695 |
| 13 | Fabens Honey Farm | Fabens, TX 79838 | $197,893 |
| 14 | Miguel L Lozano Dba Lozar Apiaries | Edinburg, TX 78539 | $197,865 |
| 15 | Turtle Creek Aquaculture LLC | Houston, TX 77066 | $192,196 |
| 16 | Darwin Wade Hamilton | Victoria, TX 77905 | $163,827 |
| 17 | Cold River Apiaries | Moore, TX 78057 | $143,054 |
| 18 | Ceballos Honey Farms Inc | Fabens, TX 79838 | $138,358 |
| 19 | Gregory Allen Sharp | Hallettsville, TX 77964 | $133,934 |
| 20 | Dency's Inc | West Columbia, TX 77486 | $107,879 |
* 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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