Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) — CFDA 10.310

AFRI research obligations at $2.41 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,412,523,817.20 in obligations under CFDA 10.310. Three thousand nine hundred sixteen awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $616,000 per award — in the range of competitive investigator and center grants rather than state formula allocations. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical project budget or a per-acre cost.

The assistance-listing title is AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH INITIATIVE (AFRI). CFDA 10.310 is the identifier. Other NIFA or USDA research listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.41 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined agricultural-research total this packet does not contain.

422 recipients and a dense award book

Four hundred twenty-two recipients share 3,916 awards, or about 9.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.41 billion evenly would assign about $5.72 million per recipient. That density is the land-grant research pattern: many concurrent awards per university rather than one large pass-through. The packet does not list the 422. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of investigators, acres, or food products.

Fifty-two jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states plus additional coded entities in the USAspending state field. Research dollars still concentrate where land-grant universities sit. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a paper or acre count

Among agriculture-research listings, 10.310 is a high-row file: 3,916 awards against 422 recipients. Multi-year awards, supplements, and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of AFRI projects.” Recipients (422) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (3,916) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publications, yield gains, or patents. Citing 3,916 as papers or acres would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $2.41 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against AFRI awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.310 to size this Agriculture and Food Research Initiative listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a farm-production dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.310.

What the 10.310 tables omit

The AFRI hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication index, not an acreage ledger, and not a food-price series. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,412,523,817.20. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 3,916 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 52 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on equipment or staff.

Where the 10.310 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.310 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other USDA listings. For 10.310 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.310’s 3,916 awards spread $2,412,523,817.20 across 422 recipients and 52 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 9.3 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 10.310 as a dense AFRI research book: 3,916 awards on 422 organizations is about 9.3 rows each — a land-grant portfolio, not a formula payment. The $2.41 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative?

USAspending.gov records $2,412,523,817.20 in obligations for CFDA 10.310. SpendingVault indexes 3,916 awards, 422 recipients, and 52 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a paper count. CFDA 10.310’s $2.41 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.310 carry?

The listing shows 3,916 awards against 422 recipients, or about 9.3 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $616,000 per award. Award count is not a paper or acre count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 10.310 awards?

The extract lists 422 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 10.310. Geographic coding covers 52 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 422 or publish publication data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.41 billion already spent on AFRI research?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.310’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or papers published. The $2.41 billion on 3,916 awards is the obligation figure.