Iowa 3rd District

Iowa 3rd District × USDA is a place-of-performance join, not a farm census

This page pairs awarding-agency 012, Department of Agriculture, with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance. The join is awarding-agency 012 crossed with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance, not Iowa’s statewide agriculture book and not a census of farms. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $2,143,174,511.08 on 24,396 awards. The extract does not list farms, acres, or producer names. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district has more need, and not a claim that 24,396 awards equal 24,396 farms or 24,396 practices.

Other awarding agencies tagged to IA-03 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 012. Mixing those listings into $2,143,174,511.08 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and cropland acres is not causation. Acreage figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $2,143,174,511.08 in a district treasury. Des Moines folklore is not a county split in this packet. A central Iowa commodity story is not a packet fact and does not explain the cell.

24,396 USDA awards behind the IA-03 obligation sum

Mean obligation is about $87,849.42 if $2,143,174,511.08 were divided evenly across 24,396 lines. That ratio is not a published cost-share rate and not a cost per acre. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of farms, acres, or counties. The 24,396 rows are a high-volume farm-program file.

Twenty-four thousand three hundred ninety-six lines are a high-volume farm-program file. Sort the Iowa 3rd District overlay by amount to see concentration; do not narrate each row. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Iowa 3rd District for the stored table. Do not convert 24,396 into a map of Iowa farms. The $2,143,174,511.08 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a farm census.

Questions

How much USDA funding is obligated in Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)?

USAspending.gov shows $2,143,174,511.08 in obligations for Department of Agriculture (agency 012) with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) as place of performance, across 24,396 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)’s full federal book. Other agencies tagged to IA-03 sit on separate pages.

Do 24,396 awards mean 24,396 Iowa farms?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending actions and can include continuations and modifications. It is not a farm or acre census. The packet does not name producers. See the Iowa 3rd District overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this Iowa’s entire USDA book?

No. The join is agency 012 crossed with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance. Other Iowa districts are separate pairs. Those dollars are not inside $2,143,174,511.08 unless the award also carries IA-03 geography.

Is the USDA total in IA-03 already paid to producers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $2,143,174,511.08 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Program-year draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.