Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops — CFDA 10.096

Specialty-crop marketing obligations at $1.38 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,380,536,445.69 in obligations under CFDA 10.096. Fifty-eight thousand two hundred ninety-one awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $23,684 per award — consistent with producer-level payment rows rather than state block grants. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical price-support rate and not a payment per acre.

The assistance-listing title is MARKETING ASSISTANCE FOR SPECIALTY CROPS. CFDA 10.096 is the identifier. Other specialty-crop or farm-program listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.38 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined specialty-crop total this packet does not contain.

58,291 award rows and a zero recipient count

The extract lists 58,291 awards and 0 recipients. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal assistance file; a zero here means named organizational recipients were not populated on this listing, not that marketing assistance was unpaid. Do not divide dollars by recipient count. Award count remains the usable row total: 58,291 assistance records.

Fifty-six jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states plus territories and other coded entities in the USAspending state field. Specialty-crop dollars still follow production and eligibility, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Payment rows are not a grower census

Among agriculture listings, 10.096 is a high-volume file: 58,291 rows against a blank organizational recipient field. Payment-level rows can inflate award count far beyond unique farms. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of specialty-crop growers” and a worse proxy for acres. Awards (58,291) tell you how many assistance rows were stored; recipients (0) tell you the organizational headcount was not filled on this extract.

The packet does not report crop types, boxes marketed, or farm counts. Citing 58,291 as growers would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, jurisdictions — and a recipient field that is empty.

Obligations versus marketing-assistance outlays

The $1,380,536,445.69 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops awards — are not in the packet. A payment file can show a large obligation stock while disbursements follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.096 to size this specialty-crop marketing listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an acreage dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.096.

What the 10.096 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grower directory, not a crop inventory, and not a price series. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,380,536,445.69. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 58,291 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. The empty recipient count is a file attribute, not evidence that payments did not occur.

A researcher comparing 10.096 with other specialty-crop or farm-program codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. About $23,684 per award describes row size, not a per-acre rate.

Where the 10.096 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.096 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other USDA listings. For 10.096 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.096’s 58,291 awards carry $1,380,536,445.69 across 56 jurisdictions with 0 named organizational recipients on the extract. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as an empty organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $23,684 per award is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops is a high-row payment listing: 58,291 awards, 0 named organizational recipients, 56 jurisdictions. The empty recipient field plus tens of thousands of rows is the fingerprint, not a grower census. Read the $1,380,536,445.69 as the USAspending obligation stock for CFDA 10.096 only.

Questions

How much is obligated for Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops?

USAspending.gov records $1,380,536,445.69 in obligations for CFDA 10.096. SpendingVault indexes 58,291 awards, 0 organizational recipients, and 56 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not an acre count. CFDA 10.096’s $1.38 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.096 carry?

The listing shows 58,291 awards. A simple average is about $23,684 per award. Award count is not a count of growers or acres. Recipient count on this extract is 0, so per-recipient averages are not available. Award dollars are on the program page.

Why does 10.096 show zero recipients?

Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the USAspending assistance extract. A zero means named organizations were not populated for this listing, not that $1,380,536,445.69 went nowhere. The usable volume signal is 58,291 award rows coded to 56 jurisdictions.

Is $1.38 billion already paid to specialty-crop producers?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.096’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or acres. The $1,380,536,445.69 on 58,291 awards is the obligation figure.