Poultry processing (NAICS 311615) in federal contract obligations

One thousand sixty-nine awards, $2.50 billion committed

The $2,504,459,396.20 obligation stock sits on 1,069 contract awards, implying about $2.34 million per award. That pairing is heavier per action than the bakery code’s thousands of small orders. The packet does not say whether the mix is subsistence contracts, commissary supply, or other poultry buys; it only supports the sum and the count.

Animal slaughtering except poultry is a different NAICS when tagged that way. Mixing 311611 and 311615 would invent a meat-processing total this page does not contain. Stay on 311615 unless you open the other industry hub and cite it separately.

Food-contract obligations versus farm assistance

USAspending.gov obligations on 311615 are procurement commitments. Commodity-credit, conservation, and other farm assistance often appear as assistance awards without NAICS. Those dollars are outside $2,504,459,396.20. A school-nutrition grant would likewise sit off this table unless a contract carried 311615.

Outlays trail obligations. A poultry-supply vehicle can be obligated by order while invoices follow delivery. Citing $2.50 billion as money already paid for chicken is incorrect. De-obligations can reduce the net after a requirement changes.

What 1,069 does not count

The 1,069 awards include modifications that keep the code. They are not 1,069 processing plants and not 1,069 pounds of product. One subsistence IDIQ can generate many of those rows. The industry page lists recipients.

Neighboring food-manufacturing codes

Commercial bakeries, perishable prepared food, and cheese manufacturing are separate 311xxx lines in this extract. Their award volumes differ sharply from 1,069. Compare them on the all-industries index without treating any food NAICS as a farm bill.

Using the poultry-processing hub

The Poultry Processing industry page lists the USAspending.gov actions behind $2.50 billion. Agencies and vendors belong there. This guide does not invent commodity weights or inspection findings.

Citing poultry-processing contracts without mixing farm programs

Quote $2,504,459,396.20 as USAspending contract obligations on 1,069 awards tagged NAICS 311615. Do not add livestock disaster payments or nutrition-assistance outlays to that sentence. Those instruments are a different feed. Poultry processing is a manufacturing code as reported on the award.

Readers sometimes convert processing dollars into animal counts. The public NAICS total does not support that conversion. The $2.50 billion is a contract-obligation stock. Option years and delivery orders can raise the recorded commitment before invoices catch up. Keep outlays out of the citation.

The 1,069-award count should travel with the dollars so the book does not look like either a micro-purchase flood or a single mega-project. Warehouse refreshes can move both figures. If later orders are recoded to another food NAICS, new dollars leave 311615.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 1,069 awards, and open the hub for recipients. Stop before turning the Census title into a dietary recommendation or a farm-policy argument.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,504,459,396 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 1,069 awards tagged NAICS 311615 (POULTRY PROCESSING). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,504,459,396; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

POULTRY PROCESSING shows 1,069 award records, enough to include recurring orders without resembling a micro-purchase flood. Modifications that keep the code are inside the count. Food-manufacturing codes record procurement of tagged products, not nutrition-assistance benefits and not farm-program outlays. POULTRY PROCESSING stays on the contract slice. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,504,459,396 and the 1,069-award count. Treat the live POULTRY PROCESSING industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 311615 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,504,459,396. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 1,069 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 311615 poultry processing?

USAspending.gov contract awards tagged Poultry Processing show $2,504,459,396.20 in obligations on 1,069 awards. That is a procurement commitment total, not farm subsidies and not outlays. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,504,459,396 obligation stock and the 1,069 contract awards tagged POULTRY PROCESSING (NAICS 311615). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Does this include livestock or nutrition grants?

Not by design. Assistance awards often lack NAICS, so those programs are omitted from the $2,504,459,396.20. Only contracts tagged 311615 feed this industry total. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,504,459,396 on 1,069 awards coded NAICS 311615. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Is poultry processing the same as animal slaughtering?

Census separates poultry processing from animal slaughtering except poultry. Other meat codes, when tagged that way, are not inside the $2,504,459,396.20 unless they also carry 311615. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 311615, $2,504,459,396 obligated, and 1,069 awards for POULTRY PROCESSING.

Do 1,069 awards equal 1,069 plants?

No. The 1,069 figure counts contract records, including orders and modifications. One vendor or vehicle can generate many awards. The industry page lists the records. Do not treat 1,069 as establishments or $2,504,459,396 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 311615 (POULTRY PROCESSING), not assistance and not outlays.