Department of Agriculture obligations in Alaska At-Large District (AK-00)

A place-of-performance join: Agriculture × AK-00

Awarding agency 012 and congressional district AK-00 meet here. $1,540,987,866.71 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Agriculture's nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Alaska At-Large District (AK-00), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,726 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $1,540,987,866.71 by 1,726 yields about $892,808.73 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,726 awards is a moderately thick USDA file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines; the packet does not identify them. Do not treat AK-00's 012 cell as a synonym for every Agriculture account nationwide. Open Alaska At-Large District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a AK-00 filter, Alaska federal spending for every awarding agency in the Alaska extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $1,540,987,866.71.

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $1,540,987,866.71 when crossed with Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require AK-00 geography. The district hub does not require Agriculture. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,726 awards. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) did not cause $1,540,987,866.71 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × AK-00 only. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Place of performance for Alaska At-Large District (AK-00)

Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AK-00 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Alaska districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Alaska. Other Alaska districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 012. Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) is the state's only voting House geography in this extract. Interior and DHS cells on the same stamp are different awarding agencies.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,540,987,866.71 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside AK-00 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $1,540,987,866.71 as given.

Alaska's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,726-row Agriculture cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,726 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($892,808.73) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AK-00 Agriculture payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $1,540,987,866.71 on 1,726 awards coded to Alaska At-Large District (AK-00). Name Department of Agriculture and Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) together. Keep the obligation word. If Alaska At-Large District or Department of Agriculture has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file. 2.9% of $53,125,232,484.14 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 2.9% and $892,808.73 without overclaiming

1,726 awards is a moderately thick USDA file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines; the packet does not identify them. Do not treat AK-00's Agriculture cell as Alaska's only federal book. Interior and DHS occupy other columns on the same geography. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $892,808.73) and the district share (2.9% of $53,125,232,484.14) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Alaska At-Large District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) as more Agriculture-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 012 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 012 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $1,540,987,866.71 and 1,726 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Agriculture spending is coded to Alaska At-Large District (AK-00)?

USAspending.gov lists $1,540,987,866.71 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 1,726 awards with place of performance in Alaska At-Large District (AK-00). Agency 012 × AK-00 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alaska's complete federal ledger. The cell is 2.9% of the district's published total ($53,125,232,484.14). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $892,808.73, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $1,540,987,866.71 include every Agriculture program in AK-00?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $1,540,987,866.71 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside AK-00 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Agriculture and Alaska At-Large District to inspect parent tables. 1,726 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $1,540,987,866.71 cash already paid in Alaska At-Large District (AK-00)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet's headline. Treating $1,540,987,866.71 as checks already cleared in Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,726 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) ranked against other Alaska districts here?

No. This page does not rank Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) as a winner or loser. $1,540,987,866.71 and 1,726 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Agriculture and Alaska At-Large District (AK-00) together without a league table.