Total Disaster Programs in Austin County, Texas, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,358
Recipients of Total Disaster Programs from farms in Austin County, Texas totaled $20,892,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Disaster Programs 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Gajewski Brothers | Sealy, TX 77474 | $158,489 |
| 22 | Bryan Vacha | Bellville, TX 77418 | $155,842 |
| 23 | Steven E Wicke | Columbus, TX 78934 | $151,092 |
| 24 | David W Schulz | New Ulm, TX 78950 | $140,634 |
| 25 | Robbie Joseph Melnar | Wallis, TX 77485 | $135,858 |
| 26 | Allan J Abel | Bellville, TX 77418 | $131,687 |
| 27 | Greg W Luhn | Sealy, TX 77474 | $128,805 |
| 28 | William T Hobson | Cat Spring, TX 78933 | $128,452 |
| 29 | Lawrence Pavlu Jr Farms Joint Venture | Garwood, TX 77442 | $124,452 |
| 30 | Stewart T Beckendorff | Sealy, TX 77474 | $121,175 |
| 31 | J J Dirba J R Dirba & C Kulhanek Ptr Circle 3 Catt | Sealy, TX 77474 | $109,360 |
| 32 | Diana Hold | Bellville, TX 77418 | $109,359 |
| 33 | Mark Bolten | Sealy, TX 77474 | $103,121 |
| 34 | Eddie A Svinky | Bellville, TX 77418 | $100,010 |
| 35 | Capco Farms Jv | Brookshire, TX 77423 | $98,886 |
| 36 | James A Marek | Wallis, TX 77485 | $98,490 |
| 37 | Henry Dirba Sr | Sealy, TX 77474 | $97,467 |
| 38 | Andrew Sowa | Sealy, TX 77474 | $95,698 |
| 39 | Jeff Harwell | Brookshire, TX 77423 | $95,285 |
| 40 | Doug D Bass | Brenham, TX 77833 | $95,092 |
* 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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