Cotton Ginning Program in Refugio County, Texas, 1995-2023
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 148
Recipients of Cotton Ginning Program from farms in Refugio County, Texas totaled $912,000 in from 1995-2023.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Cotton Ginning Program 1995-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $95,005 |
| 2 | James E & Lavonne Rathkamp Jv | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $94,960 |
| 3 | Hartlen Farms, LLC | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $72,117 |
| 4 | Harold Niemann Farms Jv | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $68,508 |
| 5 | Richard L Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $47,515 |
| 6 | Sds Joint Venture | Taft, TX 78390 | $44,556 |
| 7 | Darren Noel Kelso | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $43,440 |
| 8 | Alfred Henry Franke | Comanche, TX 76442 | $43,107 |
| 9 | Jackson Farms | Austwell, TX 77950 | $41,820 |
| 10 | Venture Farms 2, LLC | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $41,045 |
| 11 | Dewey Bellows II | Refugio, TX 78377 | $40,000 |
| 12 | Lenhart Farms | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $36,436 |
| 13 | Charles Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $32,344 |
| 14 | Floyd Niemann | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $25,142 |
| 15 | Mordow Inc | Refugio, TX 78377 | $24,919 |
| 16 | Rolyan Inc | Refugio, TX 78377 | $22,882 |
| 17 | La Rosa Cattle Co LLC | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $18,134 |
| 18 | Kenneth Wayne Steindorf | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $12,163 |
| 19 | Hartmann Sisters Farm | Bay City, TX 77414 | $5,576 |
| 20 | G D Robbins Estate Partnership | Bayside, TX 78340 | $4,591 |
* 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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