Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Colorado

What the USDA–Colorado join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state CO meet here. $10,608,744,777.09 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, and not an outlay register. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components. 74,252 is a thick action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $10,608,744,777.09 by 74,252 yields about $142,875 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a bushel total, not a farm census, and not a nutrition caseload. A second USDA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Colorado’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account.

Open Department of Agriculture in Colorado for the live filtered table, Colorado federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a Colorado filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $10,608,744,777.09.

Awarding agency 012 as the USDA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $10,608,744,777.09 when crossed with Colorado place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require CO geography. The Colorado hub does not require USDA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 74,252 awards.

This page reports agriculture awarding activity that USAspending coded to Colorado. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not “cause” $10,608,744,777.09 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × CO only. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components.

Colorado as place of performance (CO)

Colorado on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Colorado residents. Awards can list CO while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, or Arizona belong on those ties even when a Front Range or energy-corridor story is the same. Denver, Colorado Springs, and the rest of the counties share one CO stamp. Place of performance is CO, not a county map.

Colorado federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $10,608,744,777.09 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Colorado by county, metro, or congressional district. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to USDA.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $10,608,744,777.09 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside Colorado 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.

Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 74,252-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $10,608,744,777.09 as given. Treat 74,252 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.

How to cite USDA in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $10,608,744,777.09 on 74,252 awards coded to Colorado. Name Department of Agriculture and Colorado together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in Colorado has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. The pair is not a bushel total, not a farm census, and not a nutrition caseload.

Keep Department of Agriculture, Colorado, $10,608,744,777.09, and 74,252 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a Colorado filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a state with USDA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thick USDA file in Colorado

74,252 is a thick action file: many rows against $10,608,744,777.09. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. Modifications, orders, and repeat instruments add rows without proving 74,252 unique recipients. The implied mean (about $142,875) is pulled down by volume. It is a concentration statistic, not a typical Colorado USDA payment.

Do not rank Colorado as more USDA-dependent than neighboring states on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 012 ties with different dollar totals. This snapshot holds $10,608,744,777.09 and 74,252 only. Prefer Department of Agriculture in Colorado if the live table moved.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Colorado?

USAspending.gov lists $10,608,744,777.09 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 74,252 Colorado-coded awards. Agency 012 × CO is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Colorado’s complete federal ledger. Department of Agriculture in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $142,875, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every USDA program in Colorado?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components. $10,608,744,777.09 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside Colorado coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Agriculture in Colorado to inspect award lines. 74,252 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $10,608,744,777.09 cash already paid in Colorado?

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 $10,608,744,777.09 as checks already cleared in Colorado confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 74,252 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–Colorado table?

Department of Agriculture in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $10,608,744,777.09. Place of performance is CO, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.