Department of Agriculture in Alaska

USDA awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 3,668 records summing to $2,753,335,918.31. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii USDA rows are other cells.

Three thousand six hundred sixty-eight awards is a moderate USDA book: thicker than a thin Energy cell, thinner than a high-count nutrition flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,668 as 3,668 unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Population size is not a packet fact. Do not argue that Alaska punches above its weight. The join is 012 × AK only. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $2,753,335,918.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × AK only.

Not a census of rural villages or acres

$2,753,335,918.31 does not measure farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,668 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $2,753,335,918.31 and 3,668, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $2,753,335,918.31 across 3,668 awards with awarding agency 012 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,753,335,918.31.

Is $2,753,335,918.31 a measure of farms, planted acres, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $2,753,335,918.31 and 3,668 awards for agency 012 inside AK coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this USDA file have 3,668 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × AK. Combined with $2,753,335,918.31, the average is about $750,637. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,668 is not unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Agriculture in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,753,335,918.31. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.