Farm Subsidy information
Wharton County, Texas
Total Subsidies in Wharton County, Texas, 2020
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 1,526
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Wharton County, Texas totaled $54,125,000 in in 2020.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capital Farm Credit ** | El Campo, TX 77437 | $2,997,501 |
| 2 | First State Bank ** | Louise, TX 77455 | $2,941,373 |
| 3 | New First National Bank ** | Victoria, TX 77904 | $1,659,657 |
| 4 | Prosperity Bank ** | El Campo, TX 77437 | $1,327,127 |
| 5 | Pierce Ranch | Pierce, TX 77467 | $1,034,447 |
| 6 | Gertson Farms Partnership | Lissie, TX 77454 | $583,182 |
| 7 | F D G Farms | Wharton, TX 77488 | $582,661 |
| 8 | Ekstrom Aquaculture LLC | El Campo, TX 77437 | $531,228 |
| 9 | Lauritsen Farms | El Campo, TX 77437 | $525,006 |
| 10 | Anderson Farming Company | East Bernard, TX 77435 | $496,918 |
| 11 | Gary & Jeanette Schoenfield Ptr | El Campo, TX 77437 | $406,570 |
| 12 | Darrell Schoeneberg | Louise, TX 77455 | $393,428 |
| 13 | First Financial Bank ** | Abilene, TX 79601 | $387,695 |
| 14 | Popp Farms 05 | El Campo, TX 77437 | $352,928 |
| 15 | Cooperative Finance Association ** | El Campo, TX 77437 | $346,265 |
| 16 | Rachunek Brothers Farms | Wharton, TX 77488 | $345,632 |
| 17 | First National Bank Of Eagle Lake ** | Eagle Lake, TX 77434 | $341,617 |
| 18 | Hlavinka Cattle Co Jv | East Bernard, TX 77435 | $308,870 |
| 19 | Agrifund LLC ** | Amarillo, TX 79106 | $292,775 |
| 20 | Gundermann Acres LLC | Wharton, TX 77488 | $286,121 |
* 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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