Livestock Forage Disaster Program — CFDA 10.109

Livestock-forage obligations at $1.82 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,816,216,178.72 in obligations under CFDA 10.109. Two hundred seventy-three thousand eight hundred fifty-one awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $6,632 per award — far smaller than a typical state grant and consistent with producer-level disaster payments. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical ranch budget or a per-head indemnity.

The assistance-listing title is LIVESTOCK FORAGE DISASTER PROGRAM. CFDA 10.109 is the identifier. Other USDA disaster or livestock listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.82 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined farm-disaster total this packet does not contain.

273,851 awards and a 0 recipient field

The packet reports recipientCount as 0. That is not a claim that nobody received forage disaster payments; it is a gap in the organizational recipient field on this extract. With 273,851 award rows, the file is built at producer scale. Do not invent a recipient headcount. Quote the 0 as the indexed field, then read award count and dollars.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count is a near-complete map. Livestock-forage dollars follow drought and grazing geography as coded, not a 50-state equal share. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Two hundred seventy-three thousand awards at about $6,632 each is producer-scale disaster payment architecture. The 0 recipient field is the other tell: organizational UEI aggregation is blank on this extract even though 51 states are coded. Do not fill that blank with a guessed ranch count. The $1,816,216,178.72 obligation stock is still not an outlay, not a head-of-cattle census, and not a drought-day index. Other USDA livestock disaster listings stay outside CFDA 10.109 unless they share this assistance code.

Award count is not a herd count

Among USDA disaster listings, 10.109 is an outlier for volume: 273,851 rows. Payment-year rows and multiple claims can inflate award count relative to unique producers. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of ranches.” Recipients are not available on this packet; awards (273,851) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report head of livestock, forage acres, or drought severity. Citing 273,851 as cattle would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, states — and a blank recipient field.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.82 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against livestock-forage awards — are not in the packet. A producer can show an obligated row while a payment follows a later processing date. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.109 to size this Livestock Forage Disaster Program listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a crop-insurance indemnity, ELAP, or LFP eligibility dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.109.

What the 10.109 tables omit

The Livestock Forage hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a drought map, not a herd inventory, and not a producer directory. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,816,216,178.72. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 273,851 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. The 0 recipient count is an extract field, not a finding that payments had no payees.

Where the 10.109 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.109 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other agriculture listings. For 10.109 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.109’s 273,851 awards sum to $1,816,216,178.72 across 51 states, with recipientCount indexed at 0. Quote award count as a record count, the recipient field as blank on this extract, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $6,632 per award is the size story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program?

USAspending.gov records $1,816,216,178.72 in obligations for CFDA 10.109. SpendingVault indexes 273,851 awards, a recipient count of 0 on this extract, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a herd count. CFDA 10.109’s $1.82 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.109 carry?

The listing shows 273,851 awards. A simple average is about $6,632 per award. Award count is not a ranch or cattle count. The packet does not publish an organizational recipient total. Award dollars are on the program page. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Why does 10.109 show 0 recipients?

The extract lists recipientCount as 0. That is a blank organizational field on this packet, not a finding that no producer was paid. Geographic coding covers 51 states. Quote the 0 as indexed and use the 273,851 award rows for volume.

Is $1.82 billion already paid to livestock producers?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.109’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or head of livestock. The $1.82 billion on 273,851 awards is the obligation figure.