Direct Payment Program in Austin County, Texas, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 608
Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Austin County, Texas totaled $8,787,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Direct Payment Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Carl E Backhus | East Bernard, TX 77435 | $143,397 |
| 22 | Robbie Joseph Melnar | Wallis, TX 77485 | $133,338 |
| 23 | Lorine Prazak | East Bernard, TX 77435 | $120,591 |
| 24 | Vernon Neal Reaser Jr 1998 Trust | Victoria, TX 77905 | $105,473 |
| 25 | Weldon T Bollinger | Cedar Park, TX 78630 | $80,338 |
| 26 | Louis Glenn Heckmann | Wallis, TX 77485 | $78,841 |
| 27 | Robert Leo Leopold | Nada, TX 77460 | $64,055 |
| 28 | Karen R Conlan | Katy, TX 77492 | $63,111 |
| 29 | Bruce P Robertson | Houston, TX 77042 | $62,668 |
| 30 | Florence M Bollinger Estate | Leander, TX 78641 | $61,350 |
| 31 | Heckmann Farms | Wallis, TX 77485 | $60,433 |
| 32 | Edwin J Heckmann Sr | Wallis, TX 77485 | $57,308 |
| 33 | Gaydell E Felcman | Lake Jackson, TX 77566 | $52,658 |
| 34 | Lottie Ann Hluchan | Sealy, TX 77474 | $52,371 |
| 35 | Greg W Luhn | Sealy, TX 77474 | $51,213 |
| 36 | David O & Pamela K Groschke | Waller, TX 77484 | $50,690 |
| 37 | Lonie Mae Heckmann | Wallis, TX 77485 | $49,369 |
| 38 | Pederson Brothers Rice Farms | Brookshire, TX 77423 | $47,253 |
| 39 | Jerry Ondruch & Son | Wallis, TX 77485 | $46,276 |
| 40 | Hlavinka Cattle Co Jv | East Bernard, TX 77435 | $39,402 |
* 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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