Direct Payment Program in Castro County, Texas, 1995-2021

Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,461

Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Castro County, Texas totaled $91,905,000 in from 1995-2021.

Rank Recipient
(* ownership information available)
Location Direct Payment Program
1995-2021
1Sunrise FarmsNazareth, TX 79063$1,301,408
2Lightning Bar FarmsDimmitt, TX 79027$903,553
3Gilbreath BrosDimmitt, TX 79027$877,119
46r Land & Lvstk PartnershipSpringlake, TX 79082$781,851
52 L Farms PtrDimmitt, TX 79027$746,076
6Bennett BrothersHart, TX 79043$726,549
7Nelson FarmsDimmitt, TX 79027$688,513
8Robert P & Linda MerrittDe Kalb, TX 75559$652,168
9Nelson Brothers FarmsNazareth, TX 79063$634,583
10Huseman BrosNazareth, TX 79063$583,837
11Mitchell FarmsLubbock, TX 79424$497,826
12Buckley FarmsDimmitt, TX 79027$461,287
13R & R FarmsNazareth, TX 79063$457,410
14Jfm Farms IncDanbury, TX 77534$436,429
15Dwayne SmithDimmitt, TX 79027$434,963
16Russell HarkinsHereford, TX 79045$426,902
17Shelly SmithDimmitt, TX 79027$424,907
18Osterkamp DairyHereford, TX 79045$423,457
19Max SwinburnDimmitt, TX 79027$423,000
20Leo GrossmanHart, TX 79043$421,644

* 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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