Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia

USDA awards tagged to the District

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 3,432 records summing to $4,210,277,735.56. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Beltsville-coded award is Maryland even if the office sits inside the Beltway story.

Three thousand four hundred thirty-two awards is a mid-count USDA file for this dollar scale — not a Corn Belt flood of hundreds of thousands of rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,432 as 3,432 unique farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nutrition, conservation, research, and farm instruments can share 012. Headquarters location does not convert DC into a farm state. $4,210,277,735.56 is a place-of-performance join. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not “cause” $4,210,277,735.56 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × DC only.

Headquarters folklore is not acreage

$4,210,277,735.56 does not measure farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,432 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $4,210,277,735.56 and 3,432, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $4,210,277,735.56 across 3,432 awards with awarding agency 012 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,210,277,735.56.

Is $4,210,277,735.56 a measure of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $4,210,277,735.56 and 3,432 awards for agency 012 inside DC 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 3,432 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × DC. Combined with $4,210,277,735.56, the average is about $1.23 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,432 is not unique farms, planted acres, grocery prices, 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 District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia 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 $4,210,277,735.56. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.