Specialty Crop Research Initiative — CFDA 10.309

SCRI obligations at $469.2M

USAspending.gov records $469,230,449.16 in obligations under CFDA 10.309. Those 140 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. Other NIFA specialty-crop or formula research listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $469,230,449.16.

The assistance-listing title is SPECIALTY CROP RESEARCH INITIATIVE. CFDA 10.309 is the identifier. Read the $469.2M headline — $469,230,449.16 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 10.309 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted.

140 awards on 49 research recipients

49 recipients share 140 awards. That is about 2.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $469,230,449.16 evenly would assign about $9.58 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. The packet does not list the 49 named organizations. Read $469,230,449.16 only against CFDA 10.309.

Thirty-four jurisdictions describe where research recipients are coded. SCRI dollars follow funded projects, not equal shares of fruit-and-vegetable acreage. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award. Combining 10.309 with other NIFA specialty-crop or formula research listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not an acreage census

Among assistance listings, 10.309 is a competitive research file: 140 awards against 49 named universities and partners in 34 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. The recipient field (49 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (140) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. Citing 140 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $469,230,449.16 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. Forty-nine recipients on 140 awards is a multi-year university research pattern.

Obligations versus SCRI outlays

The $469,230,449.16 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Specialty Crop Research Initiative awards — are not in the packet. A file can show a large obligation stock while draws, reimbursements, or closeouts follow a different schedule. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. Treasury outlays are a separate series.

Use CFDA 10.309 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.309. The $469.2M figure is the compact form of $469,230,449.16.

What the 10.309 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 34 jurisdictions. Thirty-four jurisdictions describe where research recipients are coded. SCRI dollars follow funded projects, not equal shares of fruit-and-vegetable acreage. It is not a farm-bill commodity total, not an acreage survey, and not a list of every specialty-crop experiment. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $469,230,449.16.

Place-of-performance on 34 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Specialty Crop Research Initiative funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 10.309 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.309 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 10.309 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.309’s 140 awards spread $469,230,449.16 across 49 recipients and 34 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.9 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Specialty Crop Research Initiative?

USAspending.gov records $469,230,449.16 in obligations for CFDA 10.309. SpendingVault indexes 140 awards, 49 recipients, and 34 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. CFDA 10.309’s $469.2M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.309 carry?

The listing shows 140 awards against 49 recipients, or about 2.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award. Award count is not a count of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 10.309 awards?

The extract lists 49 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.309, not a census of crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. Geographic coding covers 34 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $469.2M already spent on specialty-crop research?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.309’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or crop varieties released, pest trials completed, or acres of specialty crops planted. The $469.2M ($469,230,449.16) on 140 awards is the obligation figure.