Department of Agriculture in California

USDA’s California-coded award book

Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of Agriculture, CGAC 012. Geography is California. The surviving file is $82,788,421,538.59 and 77,071 awards. Nutrition assistance, conservation, research, and farm programs can share that book; this packet does not say how the 77,071 rows split among them.

Dollars per record come to about $1.07 million. That mean mixes large assistance vehicles with smaller actions. It is not a typical California farm’s federal receipt. Unique producers are unpublished.

Department of Agriculture in California is the overlay. California federal spending still includes Energy, Education, and every other agency in the state extract. All spending ties holds the rest of the join list. Seventy-seven thousand seventy-one USDA actions in California can include nutrition, conservation, research, and farm instruments. This packet does not say the shares. $82,788,421,538.59 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside CA coding. Department of Agriculture in California is not a crop report.

Not a crop report and not a drought score

Acreage, yield, and drought declarations are not fields in this packet. $82,788,421,538.59 does not measure California’s agricultural output. It measures award obligations with a 012 awarding-agency code and a CA tag.

Food-price inflation is not derived from 77,071 awards. Linking grocery bills to this cell is causation language the join does not support. California’s size as a farm state is ordinary background. It is not a packet fact that explains the dollar column. The join does not prove Sacramento “attracted” USDA dollars. Water, drought, and wildfire stories attach easily to California agriculture in ordinary speech. None of those series is a field here. Linking $82,788,421,538.59 to reservoir levels is causation language the join does not support. California federal spending still includes Energy, Education, NASA, and VA cells that are not 012.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to California?

USAspending.gov lists $82,788,421,538.59 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 77,071 California-coded awards. Agency 012 × CA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a crop-value total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Agriculture in California is the live overlay for this pair. $82,788,421,538.59 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 77,071 awards.

Is this mostly nutrition assistance or farm subsidies?

The packet does not break out the 77,071 awards by program. $82,788,421,538.59 is the combined obligation sum for awarding agency 012 inside California coding. This packet publishes only the Department of Agriculture (agency 012) join inside California coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $82,788,421,538.59 and 77,071 together.

Does this explain California grocery prices?

No. Food prices are not a USAspending field. $82,788,421,538.59 is an award-obligation total. Correlation with retail prices is not in this join. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $82,788,421,538.59 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 77,071 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–California table?

Department of Agriculture in California is the overlay. California federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. California federal spending and Department of Agriculture are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $82,788,421,538.59. Obligations are not outlays.