Department of Agriculture in Nebraska

A thick USDA file on Nebraska

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Nebraska as place-of-performance: 255,935 records summing to $4,571,840,113.62. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside NE is out. An award in Nebraska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Missouri. A Sioux City, Iowa-coded award is IA.

Two hundred fifty-five thousand nine hundred thirty-five awards is an extreme-count USDA file. Volume can rise on recurring nutrition and farm rows without each row being a new producer. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 255,935 as 255,935 unique farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Nebraska is the both-keys table. Nebraska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without an NE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is much lower than thin State cells. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Nebraska did not “cause” $4,571,840,113.62 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × NE only.

Corn, cattle, and missing commodity fields

$4,571,840,113.62 does not measure farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and an NE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 255,935 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Nebraska federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $4,571,840,113.62 and 255,935, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending.gov records $4,571,840,113.62 across 255,935 awards with awarding agency 012 and a Nebraska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Nebraska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,571,840,113.62.

Is $4,571,840,113.62 a measure of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $4,571,840,113.62 and 255,935 awards for agency 012 inside NE 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 255,935 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × NE. Combined with $4,571,840,113.62, the average is about $17,863. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 255,935 is not unique farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, 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 Nebraska is the overlay. Nebraska 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 $4,571,840,113.62. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.