Department of Agriculture federal obligations in California

USDA’s California-coded award book

Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of Agriculture, CGAC 012. Geography is California. The surviving file is $82,788,421,538.59 and 77,071 awards. Nutrition assistance, conservation, research, and farm programs can share that book; this packet does not say how the 77,071 rows split among them.

Dollars per record come to about $1.07 million. That mean mixes large assistance vehicles with smaller actions. It is not a typical California farm’s federal receipt. Unique producers are unpublished.

Department of Agriculture in California is the overlay. California federal spending still includes Energy, Education, and every other agency in the state extract. All spending ties holds the rest of the join list. Seventy-seven thousand seventy-one USDA actions in California can include nutrition, conservation, research, and farm instruments. This packet does not say the shares. $82,788,421,538.59 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside CA coding. Department of Agriculture in California is not a crop report.

Not a crop report and not a drought score

Acreage, yield, and drought declarations are not fields in this packet. $82,788,421,538.59 does not measure California’s agricultural output. It measures award obligations with a 012 awarding-agency code and a CA tag.

Food-price inflation is not derived from 77,071 awards. Linking grocery bills to this cell is causation language the join does not support. California’s size as a farm state is ordinary background. It is not a packet fact that explains the dollar column. The join does not prove Sacramento “attracted” USDA dollars. Water, drought, and wildfire stories attach easily to California agriculture in ordinary speech. None of those series is a field here. Linking $82,788,421,538.59 to reservoir levels is causation language the join does not support. California federal spending still includes Energy, Education, NASA, and VA cells that are not 012.

Obligation versus outlay on agency 012

Assistance awards can obligate in one fiscal window and pay on a different schedule. $82,788,421,538.59 is the commitment sum. Treating it as SNAP or farm checks already cleared in California confuses obligations with outlays.

The California state budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 77,071-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. California USDA’s 77,071 actions can mix nutrition and farm instruments in unknown shares. $82,788,421,538.59 is the combined 012 × CA obligation sum. Department of Agriculture in California does not become a drought score when reservoirs fall. Water series are not in the packet. Do not borrow county shares from crop maps.

One CA tag, not a Central Valley map

This packet does not split $82,788,421,538.59 by county or commodity. Imperial Valley versus Central Valley stories need another extract. 77,071 awards stay statewide.

Department of Agriculture is the 012 hub without a California filter. Use it for the agency book; use this page for the CA intersection only.

Citing USDA in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (012) obligated $82,788,421,538.59 on 77,071 awards coded to California. Name Agriculture and California together. Keep the obligation word.

If Department of Agriculture in California has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. Peer USDA-state joins in this slice use the same two facts—dollars and award counts—and still are not a ranking of agricultural importance. Quote $82,788,421,538.59 with California and agency 012. California federal spending includes Energy, Education, NASA, and VA cells that must not be added into this total. All spending ties is the index. Obligations are not outlays.

How to cite USDA in California

Keep Department of Agriculture, California, $82,788,421,538.59, and 77,071 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a California filter. Do not add those parents to this cell.

Do not per-farm or per-acre the dollar total. Those denominators are unpublished. Do not treat 77,071 as unique producers. Do not annualize without a year field. If the overlay Department of Agriculture in California moves, quote the overlay. Obligations on $82,788,421,538.59 are not outlays and not grocery prices.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to California?

USAspending.gov lists $82,788,421,538.59 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 77,071 California-coded awards. Agency 012 × CA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a crop-value total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Agriculture in California is the live overlay for this pair. $82,788,421,538.59 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 77,071 awards.

Is this mostly nutrition assistance or farm subsidies?

The packet does not break out the 77,071 awards by program. $82,788,421,538.59 is the combined obligation sum for awarding agency 012 inside California coding. This packet publishes only the Department of Agriculture (agency 012) join inside California coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $82,788,421,538.59 and 77,071 together.

Does this explain California grocery prices?

No. Food prices are not a USAspending field. $82,788,421,538.59 is an award-obligation total. Correlation with retail prices is not in this join. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $82,788,421,538.59 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 77,071 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–California table?

Department of Agriculture in California is the overlay. California federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. California 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 $82,788,421,538.59. Obligations are not outlays.