Department of Agriculture in Texas

A high-count USDA file on a Texas tag

Four hundred twenty-eight thousand four hundred twelve records survive the join of Department of Agriculture and Texas place-of-performance. They sum to $50,528,606,953.55. The implied mean is about $117,900 per award—far below the Energy-lab cells in this batch. Nutrition, conservation, disaster, and farm programs can mint many small or moderate actions. This packet does not say which programs dominate the 428,412 rows.

A thick file can rise on modifications and recurring assistance without each row being a new farm. Unique producers are unpublished. Do not read 428,412 as 428,412 Texas ranches.

Department of Agriculture in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending includes every awarding agency in the state extract. All spending ties lists other pairs. Four hundred twenty-eight thousand four hundred twelve USDA actions in Texas are the volume outlier in this slice. $50,528,606,953.55 is still a smaller dollar column than several thin Energy cells. Volume and dollars are different stories. Department of Agriculture in Texas should be quoted with both integers so the file is not mistaken for a lab vehicle.

Cattle, cotton, and missing commodity fields

Herd size, planted acres, and drought maps are not in the packet. $50,528,606,953.55 does not measure Texas agricultural output. It measures award obligations with a 012 awarding-agency code and a TX tag.

Grocery prices and export volumes are not derived from 428,412 awards. Linking those series to this cell is causation language the join does not support. Texas did not “win” USDA dollars by being a large farm state in a way this extract can test. The join key is 012 × TX. Livestock and cotton attach easily to Texas agriculture in ordinary speech. This packet does not name commodities. $50,528,606,953.55 is agency 012 inside TX coding, including whatever nutrition and conservation rows the extract contains. Texas federal spending still includes VA, DHS, Education, NASA, and Treasury joins that are not 012.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Texas?

USAspending.gov shows $50,528,606,953.55 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 428,412 Texas-coded awards. Agency 012 × TX is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a commodity total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Agriculture in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. $50,528,606,953.55 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 428,412 awards.

Why are there more than 400,000 awards?

The extract counts 428,412 award actions. Recurring assistance and modifications can thicken a file. Unique farms and unique recipients are unpublished in this packet. This packet publishes only the Department of Agriculture (agency 012) join inside Texas coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $50,528,606,953.55 and 428,412 together.

Is this mostly livestock support?

The packet does not break out programs. $50,528,606,953.55 is the combined USDA obligation sum inside Texas coding. Commodity shares would need another extract. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $50,528,606,953.55 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 428,412 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Agriculture in Texas is the overlay. Texas federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Texas 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 $50,528,606,953.55. Obligations are not outlays.