Farm Subsidy information
Taylor County, Texas
Total USDA Subsidies in Taylor County, Texas, 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 2,392
Recipients of Total USDA Subsidies from farms in Taylor County, Texas totaled $136,361,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total USDA Subsidies 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Williams & Company * | Trent, TX 79561 | $5,272,166 |
| 2 | Toombs & Toombs * | Merkel, TX 79536 | $2,865,214 |
| 3 | Bar V Ranch * | Ovalo, TX 79541 | $2,010,593 |
| 4 | Malone Farms * | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,747,350 |
| 5 | Best Farms * | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,700,422 |
| 6 | Griffith Farms Jv * | Hawley, TX 79525 | $1,316,614 |
| 7 | Robert Galen Boone | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,271,208 |
| 8 | Cross Family Farms Lp * | Ovalo, TX 79541 | $1,110,379 |
| 9 | Freddy Toombs | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,042,238 |
| 10 | Big Elm Cattle Co * | Abilene, TX 79606 | $1,027,627 |
| 11 | John F Henslee | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,026,022 |
| 12 | W B Toombs Estate J V * | Merkel, TX 79536 | $1,017,297 |
| 13 | Loy Stockton | Tuscola, TX 79562 | $774,945 |
| 14 | Sparta Farms Inc * | Merkel, TX 79536 | $764,699 |
| 15 | Paul Holloway | Abilene, TX 79606 | $750,054 |
| 16 | Mike Peterson | Lawn, TX 79530 | $744,730 |
| 17 | Caton Farms Inc * | Abilene, TX 79601 | $704,744 |
| 18 | Hugh Baker | Merkel, TX 79536 | $672,643 |
| 19 | Gaylon Joe Brnovak | Merkel, TX 79536 | $659,231 |
| 20 | Alvis Dink Whisenhunt | Merkel, TX 79536 | $653,707 |
* 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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‡ Data for 2020 includes payments made by USDA through June 30, 2020 and does not include crop insurance premium subsidies.
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