Department of Agriculture obligations in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)

Agriculture obligations coded to Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)

Awarding agency 012 and congressional district CO-02 meet here. $1,088,255,415.07 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 Colorado 2nd District (CO-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,115 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a farm census, a SNAP caseload, an acreage total, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $1,088,255,415.07 by 1,115 yields about $976,013.83 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 1,115 awards is a thick Agriculture file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines. Unique recipients and farm counts are unpublished. Do not treat CO-02’s 012 cell as a synonym for every Agriculture account nationwide. Open Colorado 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without the CO-02 filter, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the Colorado extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $1,088,255,415.07.

What Agriculture contributes to this pair

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $1,088,255,415.07 when crossed with Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require CO-02 geography. The district hub does not require Agriculture. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,115 awards. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) did not “cause” $1,088,255,415.07 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × CO-02 only. It is not a farm census, a SNAP caseload, an acreage total, 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.

District geography versus Colorado statewide totals

Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CO-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Colorado districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Colorado. Other Colorado districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 012. Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) is not Colorado 1st District. HUD meets CO-01 on a separate tie; those housing dollars are not this Agriculture cell.

Why this is not an outlay register

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $1,088,255,415.07 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside CO-02 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 $1,088,255,415.07 as given.

Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,115-row Agriculture cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,115 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 ($976,013.83) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CO-02 Agriculture payment.

Live tables versus this snapshot

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $1,088,255,415.07 on 1,115 awards coded to Colorado 2nd District (CO-02). Name Department of Agriculture and Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Colorado 2nd 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 SNAP caseload, an acreage total, or a named-grantee file. 8.6% of $12,688,286,519.69 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Agriculture, Colorado 2nd District (CO-02), $1,088,255,415.07, and 1,115 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a CO-02 filter. Colorado federal spending is the Colorado parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Agriculture does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

What this packet refuses to infer

1,115 awards is a thick Agriculture file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines. Unique recipients and farm counts are unpublished. 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 $976,013.83) and the district share (8.6% of $12,688,286,519.69) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Colorado 2nd District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Agriculture spending is coded to Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)?

USAspending.gov lists $1,088,255,415.07 in Agriculture (agency 012) obligations across 1,115 awards coded to Colorado 2nd District (CO-02). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Colorado’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 8.6% of the district’s published total ($12,688,286,519.69). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $1,088,255,415.07 include every Agriculture program in CO-02?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. $1,088,255,415.07 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside CO-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 1,115 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $1,088,255,415.07 cash already paid in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02)?

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 $1,088,255,415.07 as checks already cleared in Colorado 2nd District (CO-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,115 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

What share of CO-02 obligations is agency 012?

Agency 012 accounts for 8.6% of $12,688,286,519.69 in district-wide obligations on this packet. That share is $1,088,255,415.07 ÷ $12,688,286,519.69. It is not a ranking of Colorado districts and not an outlay share. Other awarding agencies occupy the remaining district total on other ties.