Federal obligations in fruit and vegetable canning (NAICS 311421)

Named canning, not residual 311999 foods

NAICS 311421 covers fruit and vegetable canning. Federal commodity buys of canned produce can land here when the award is tagged 311421. Slaughter (311611) and residual miscellaneous foods (311999) are other 311 lines. The $3,360,311,079.90 total is the canning tag, not “all federal food.”

A residual-food catalog order tagged 311999 will not raise this canning row. A canned-vegetable vehicle tagged 311421 will. SpendingVault reports the USAspending award tag, not a USDA pack list and not an FEC employer string such as “farmer.”

1,980 awards on a $3.36 billion obligation stock

One thousand nine hundred eighty awards produced $3,360,311,079.90 in obligations. That action count is thinner than residual 311999’s catalog file. Large commodity vehicles can dominate; the packet does not name them. The table shows tagged dollars and the 1,980-award count, not cases packed.

Obligations move with new awards, options, and modifications, including deobligations. Outlays are payments and are not this $3,360,311,079.90 rollup. A multi-year vehicle can show a large commitment while invoices follow performance. The industry page does not convert obligations into a cash calendar.

How USAspending attaches this NAICS

USAspending.gov stores NAICS on contract actions. commodity grants and many nutrition-assistance awards often have no NAICS field. Those dollars will not add to the 1,980 awards. Open program pages for grant-funded activity in this industry.

The label is a Census NAICS classification. It is not a packer-brand census and not campaign-finance text. Cite USAspending.gov via SpendingVault for $3,360,311,079.90 and the 1,980-award count.

What the 311421 table is and is not

The hub lists recipients and awards that share this NAICS tag. A large obligation is a disclosed commitment. It is not a finding that a can failed, that a lot was recalled, or that a small business was excluded. SpendingVault does not score outcomes from the dollar total.

Use award IDs, not the $3,360,311,079.90 headline, to separate two companies. Subcontractors may be missing if the prime coded 311421. UEI and name changes are ordinary in the file.

Neighboring 311 food codes

Animal slaughtering except poultry (311611) and residual miscellaneous food manufacturing (311999) are separate pages. Adding them to $3,360,311,079.90 would mix slaughter and residual foods with named canning. That recode is not this page.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside the 1,980-award count. For a recipient that also holds grants, open the recipient record. This guide stays on contract NAICS 311421 from USAspending.gov. Keep obligations distinct from outlays.

Canning versus slaughter and residual foods

A slaughter award tagged 311611 will not raise the 1,980-award count. A canning vehicle tagged 311421 sits in $3,360,311,079.90 even if the same prime also holds a 311999 residual-food vehicle. SpendingVault does not merge those rows.

Searchers who want “all federal food manufacturing” must add slaughter, residual 311999, and poultry lines and will still miss SNAP-style assistance. This page does not perform that recode. Cite contract NAICS 311421 only. Do not treat the row as an FEC occupation called farmer. The $3,360,311,079.90 figure remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Modifications that cut a commodity lot will lower the running total without publishing a case-count statistic on this hub. Open award rows for product descriptions. Neighboring 311 lines stay on their own pages unless those awards were tagged 311421.

A canned-vegetable lot tagged 311421 still sits in $3,360,311,079.90; a slaughter lot tagged 311611 does not. The 1,980 awards remain an action count, not a cannery census. Keep 311999 residual foods on its own page. Cite USAspending.gov contract NAICS 311421 only. The headline is still obligations, not outlays. Nutrition assistance without NAICS stays outside this contract rollup. Do not add 311611 or 311999 into $3,360,311,079.90 without documenting a recode. The 1,980 awards stay an action file, not a cannery roster. Open award rows for CLIN-level descriptions the NAICS hub does not publish. Neighboring codes stay on their own SpendingVault industry pages unless those awards were tagged 311421. Keep obligations distinct from outlays on this rollup. Assistance awards without NAICS remain outside the contract tag. The packet reports only this NAICS tag from USAspending.gov contract actions, not outlays and not assistance without a NAICS field. Do not treat this industry total as an FEC employer string or as a cash-outlay extract from Treasury.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated under NAICS 311421?

USAspending.gov contract aggregates on SpendingVault show $3,360,311,079.90 in obligations across 1,980 awards tagged fruit and vegetable canning. The number is obligations, not outlays. Assistance awards without NAICS are omitted. It is not an FEC employer string and not a combined total of neighboring NAICS codes.

Does this include animal slaughtering?

Animal except poultry slaughtering is NAICS 311611. Those awards will not add to the $3,360,311,079.90 total unless tagged 311421. The 1,980 awards are the fruit-and-vegetable canning contract tag from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault. Adding 311611 is a recode you must document on this page.

Does this include residual miscellaneous food manufacturing?

All other miscellaneous food manufacturing is NAICS 311999. Those awards will not add to the $3,360,311,079.90 total unless tagged 311421. The 1,980 awards are the canning contract tag. Open the 311999 industry page for that residual rollup from USAspending.gov via SpendingVault.

Are these figures outlays or obligations?

They are obligations: legally binding commitments on contract actions. Outlays are payments and are not this $3,360,311,079.90 rollup. Modifications can change obligations without a same-day payment. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov contract NAICS for the 1,980 awards, not a Treasury cash extract.