Deficiency Payment in Cameron County, Texas, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,385
Recipients of Deficiency Payment from farms in Cameron County, Texas totaled $509,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Deficiency Payment 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Benito Farms - 1995 | San Benito, TX 78586 | $6,272 |
| 22 | Elliott Roberts Rch Inc | Rio Hondo, TX 78583 | $6,242 |
| 23 | Hartman West Farm & Ranch | Rio Hondo, TX 78583 | $6,238 |
| 24 | Ralph Powell | Harlingen, TX 78550 | $6,153 |
| 25 | Vidal Longoria Estate | Brownsville, TX 78526 | $6,117 |
| 26 | Robert B Ballenger Sr | Sebastian, TX 78594 | $5,914 |
| 27 | Wentz Cattle Company | Olmito, TX 78575 | $5,712 |
| 28 | Pedro S Zepeda | Brownsville, TX 78523 | $5,506 |
| 29 | Richard Burns | Harlingen, TX 78552 | $5,473 |
| 30 | Steve Wolf | La Feria, TX 78559 | $5,410 |
| 31 | George L Labar Jr | Harlingen, TX 78552 | $5,362 |
| 32 | Stone Brothers | Raymondville, TX 78580 | $5,356 |
| 33 | W Craig Bookout | Lytle, TX 78052 | $5,283 |
| 34 | Southern Agricultural Products | Harlingen, TX 78551 | $5,264 |
| 35 | Joe S Wolf | La Feria, TX 78559 | $5,178 |
| 36 | Thomas P Dane | Harlingen, TX 78550 | $5,136 |
| 37 | Kidd Farm Partnership | Harlingen, TX 78550 | $4,816 |
| 38 | Robert B Ballenger Jr | Sebastian, TX 78594 | $4,741 |
| 39 | Wadkins's Farms, J V | Harlingen, TX 78550 | $4,738 |
| 40 | Bruce Harvey Gamble | La Feria, TX 78559 | $4,648 |
* 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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