Direct Payment Program in Hidalgo County, Texas, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 1,308
Recipients of Direct Payment Program from farms in Hidalgo County, Texas totaled $54,607,000 in from 1995-2021.
Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Direct Payment Program 1995-2021 |
---|---|---|---|
21 | Chapotal Farms | Mcallen, TX 78502 | $470,096 |
22 | Respondek Farms | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $461,796 |
23 | Cohrs Farms | Donna, TX 78537 | $454,266 |
24 | H & H Farms | Pharr, TX 78577 | $450,844 |
25 | Frank Machac Jr | Mission, TX 78573 | $435,701 |
26 | L & M Farms Ptn | Edinburg, TX 78539 | $432,223 |
27 | Tim H Belcher | Weslaco, TX 78599 | $424,361 |
28 | Ortega Farms J V | Mercedes, TX 78570 | $414,914 |
29 | Luna Brothers | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $411,699 |
30 | Odom Farms | Edcouch, TX 78538 | $401,164 |
31 | Brian Jones Farms | Edcouch, TX 78538 | $395,498 |
32 | Frank Sekula | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $395,362 |
33 | Pawlik Farms LLC | Mcallen, TX 78502 | $394,791 |
34 | Southern Ag Farms | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $393,497 |
35 | Richard Drawe Farms Jv | Progreso, TX 78579 | $385,799 |
36 | Guadalupe S Garza | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $385,758 |
37 | Fike Farms | Edinburg, TX 78542 | $384,033 |
38 | Francis Joseph Kotzur | Edinburg, TX 78541 | $383,725 |
39 | Rio Farms Inc | Monte Alto, TX 78538 | $362,318 |
40 | Bell Farms | La Villa, TX 78562 | $359,572 |
* 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.”