Department of Agriculture federal obligations

High award volume under a $626 billion book

The precise total is $625,785,728,148.66 across 4,788,404 awards. The implied mean is about $131,000 per award, far below agencies whose books are dominated by a few giant contracts. Nutrition assistance, conservation, rural development, and commodity programs can each generate many rows. This packet does not split the 4,788,404 count by program, so the mean is a blended figure, not a typical farm payment.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. New crop-year actions posted after this extract will move both the dollar total and the award count. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 4,788,404 records against $625,785,728,148.66 describe high-volume assistance, not a few giant primes. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as crop-year and disaster actions continue to post inside FY 2026.

CGAC 012 and the USDA hub

SpendingVault keys USDA to /agencies/012/. CGAC 012 is the awarding-agency identifier, not a farm-bill title number. Sub-agencies may appear on individual records while still rolling into $625,785,728,148.66. The 4,788,404 figure counts award records, not farms, acres, or households.

Obligations are not CCC outlays

Commodity Credit Corporation and other USDA cash series are published separately. This hub’s $625,785,728,148.66 is the sum of USAspending obligations tagged to CGAC 012 through FY 2026. An obligation can precede disbursement; some nutrition and disaster actions may also sit outside this award extract. If a number is not in the packet, it is not used here.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Department of Agriculture, that reading is wrong. Commodity Credit Corporation outlay series, farm counts, or acres enrolled belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Crop-year and disaster actions continue to post inside FY 2026.

State geography for Agriculture awards

The state table for CGAC 012 follows place-of-performance coding. A national nutrition or insurance action coded to one jurisdiction can skew that state’s share of $625,785,728,148.66. Rural counties can show large counts of small awards while urban states show fewer, larger rows. The parent population is 4,788,404 awards through FY 2026.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, nutrition or insurance actions coded to one jurisdiction can skew a state’s share of the book. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Pair the dollar rank with the 4,788,404 count on the CGAC 012 hub.

Reading USDA next to other agencies

On the all-agencies list, pair $625,785,728,148.66 with the 4,788,404 award count before ranking USDA on dollars alone. A high row count with a mid-pack dollar total describes a high-volume assistance portfolio. The hub does not recommend farm programs or score nutrition policy.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 4,788,404 records against $625,785,728,148.66 describe high-volume assistance, not a few giant primes. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Pair the dollar rank with the 4,788,404 count on the CGAC 012 hub.

Why USDA’s row count belongs next to its dollars

A $625,785,728,148.66 book on 4,788,404 awards produces a mean near $131,000. That quotient is a blended farm, nutrition, conservation, and rural-development mix. This packet does not split those programs, so the mean is not a typical commodity payment.

The all-agencies list will rank USDA differently on dollars than on award count. Both ranks are valid inside this extract. Neither is a score of farm income. Use the state table as place-of-performance coding through FY 2026. CGAC 012 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/012/. The award population is 4,788,404 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 012 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/012/. The award population is 4,788,404 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has USDA obligated on USAspending through FY 2026?

The Department of Agriculture total in this extract is $625,785,728,148.66 across 4,788,404 awards tagged to CGAC 012. That sum is an obligation figure from USAspending.gov, not a Commodity Credit Corporation outlay series and not a count of farms.

Why does Agriculture show millions of awards?

The 4,788,404 count is the number of award records under awarding-agency 012, including grants, loans, and other actions present in the file. High transaction volume is consistent with dispersed assistance. Dollar volume on those rows is $625,785,728,148.66 through FY 2026.

What is CGAC 012?

CGAC 012 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Department of Agriculture. SpendingVault’s USDA hub uses that code. The $625,785,728,148.66 obligation total and 4,788,404 award count roll up rows carrying 012 through fiscal year 2026.

Can I see USDA federal spending by state?

Yes. The state table from the CGAC 012 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still roll toward $625,785,728,148.66 and 4,788,404 awards through FY 2026.