Sorghum Subsidies in 4th District of Texas (Rep. John Ratcliffe), 1995-2020‡
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 5,712
Recipients of Sorghum Subsidies from farms in 4th District of Texas (Rep. John Ratcliffe) totaled $56,462,000 in from 1995-2020‡.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Sorghum Subsidies 1995-2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glynn Dodson | Royse City, TX 75189 | $552,786 |
| 2 | Charles R Huddleston | Celina, TX 75009 | $466,572 |
| 3 | Norman Farms * | Howe, TX 75459 | $462,466 |
| 4 | Wright Farms * | Merit, TX 75458 | $435,525 |
| 5 | Kenneth R Strickland | Nevada, TX 75173 | $414,397 |
| 6 | Shipman Farms * | Honey Grove, TX 75446 | $387,274 |
| 7 | Lumpkins Farms * | Leonard, TX 75452 | $370,339 |
| 8 | Richard Sells | Ector, TX 75439 | $370,307 |
| 9 | Bruce Wetzel | Sherman, TX 75090 | $361,591 |
| 10 | Taylor Strawn | Sherman, TX 75090 | $347,411 |
| 11 | Bill Stelzer | Celina, TX 75009 | $347,386 |
| 12 | Bobby L Wetzel | Sherman, TX 75090 | $347,204 |
| 13 | J & P Farms Ptr * | Roxton, TX 75477 | $343,224 |
| 14 | Donnie Martinek | Gunter, TX 75058 | $324,465 |
| 15 | Carl Weets | Cooper, TX 75432 | $306,538 |
| 16 | Joe P Bledsoe | Whitesboro, TX 76273 | $306,480 |
| 17 | Lake Creek Farms * | Lake Creek, TX 75450 | $302,457 |
| 18 | Robinson & Robinson * | Celina, TX 75009 | $286,438 |
| 19 | Chandler Strawn | Howe, TX 75459 | $285,613 |
| 20 | Williams Farm Partnership * | Wolfe City, TX 75496 | $261,911 |
* 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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