Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Alaska

USDA awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 3,668 records summing to $2,753,335,918.31. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii USDA rows are other cells.

Three thousand six hundred sixty-eight awards is a moderate USDA book: thicker than a thin Energy cell, thinner than a high-count nutrition flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,668 as 3,668 unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Population size is not a packet fact. Do not argue that Alaska punches above its weight. The join is 012 × AK only. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $2,753,335,918.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × AK only.

Not a census of rural villages or acres

$2,753,335,918.31 does not measure farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,668 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $2,753,335,918.31 and 3,668, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alaska is not the lower 48

Place of performance AK is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii USDA rows are other cells. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Population size is not a packet fact. Do not argue that Alaska punches above its weight. The join is 012 × AK only. This packet does not split $2,753,335,918.31 by city, county, or named facility. 3,668 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Moderate volume still means commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,753,335,918.31 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alaska confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alaska’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,668-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,753,335,918.31.

Citing USDA in Alaska

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $2,753,335,918.31 on 3,668 awards coded to Alaska. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in Alaska if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alaska federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AK. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the AK filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,753,335,918.31.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, Alaska, $2,753,335,918.31, and 3,668. The compact headline $2.75 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $750,637 is $2,753,335,918.31 divided by 3,668. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $2,753,335,918.31 across 3,668 awards with awarding agency 012 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,753,335,918.31.

Is $2,753,335,918.31 a measure of farms, planted acres, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $2,753,335,918.31 and 3,668 awards for agency 012 inside AK 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 3,668 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × AK. Combined with $2,753,335,918.31, the average is about $750,637. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,668 is not unique farms, planted acres, 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 Alaska is the overlay. Alaska 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 $2,753,335,918.31. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.