Market Loss Assistance Program in Refugio County, Texas, 1995-2021
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 459
Recipients of Market Loss Assistance Program from farms in Refugio County, Texas totaled $7,491,000 in from 1995-2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Market Loss Assistance Program 1995-2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward J & Sandra A Ermis | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $279,776 |
| 2 | Thiltgen Farms | Rockport, TX 78382 | $273,440 |
| 3 | Venture Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $272,404 |
| 4 | Leander Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $269,824 |
| 5 | Lenhart Bros | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $239,968 |
| 6 | Wayne Or Miriam Schubert Farms Jv | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $224,964 |
| 7 | Harold Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $218,594 |
| 8 | Ocker A Joint Venture | Corpus Christi, TX 78413 | $189,898 |
| 9 | T & T Farms | Taft, TX 78390 | $166,334 |
| 10 | Jackson Farms | Austwell, TX 77950 | $157,742 |
| 11 | Kelly Gillespie Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $142,678 |
| 12 | Mordow Inc | Refugio, TX 78377 | $137,481 |
| 13 | Martin Oconnor Cattle Co Inc | Victoria, TX 77902 | $134,083 |
| 14 | Floyd Niemann | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $132,140 |
| 15 | Bessie L Niemann | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $132,138 |
| 16 | Charles Niemann Farms | Woodsboro, TX 78393 | $129,028 |
| 17 | James E & Lavonne Rathkamp | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $125,598 |
| 18 | Tally Farms | Victoria, TX 77905 | $125,517 |
| 19 | T Zabel Farms | Midland, TX 79707 | $116,892 |
| 20 | Edgar Rathkamp | Tivoli, TX 77990 | $113,729 |
* 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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