Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Delaware

USDA awards tagged to Delaware

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Delaware as place-of-performance: 4,455 records summing to $1,622,560,314.76. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside DE is out. An award in Delaware from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Salisbury, Maryland-coded award is MD even if the poultry story is the same Peninsula.

Four thousand four hundred fifty-five awards is a mid-thick USDA file for a small state. Volume can rise on recurring nutrition and farm rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 4,455 as 4,455 unique farms, planted acres, or poultry houses. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Delaware is the both-keys table. Delaware federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without a DE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nutrition, conservation, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $1,622,560,314.76. Correlation is not causation: Delaware did not cause $1,622,560,314.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × DE only.

Not a Delmarva poultry or acreage census

$1,622,560,314.76 does not measure farms, planted acres, or poultry houses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and a DE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 4,455 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, or poultry houses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Delaware federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $1,622,560,314.76 and 4,455, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Delaware statewide, not a Peninsula rollup

Place of performance DE is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Salisbury, Maryland-coded award is MD even if the poultry story is the same Peninsula. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Nutrition, conservation, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $1,622,560,314.76. This packet does not split $1,622,560,314.76 by city, county, or named facility. 4,455 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Assistance-style volume, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,622,560,314.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Delaware confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Delaware’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 4,455-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 $1,622,560,314.76.

Citing USDA in Delaware

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $1,622,560,314.76 on 4,455 awards coded to Delaware. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, or poultry houses.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in Delaware if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Delaware federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DE. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the DE filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,622,560,314.76.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, Delaware, $1,622,560,314.76, and 4,455. The compact headline $1.62 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $364,211 is $1,622,560,314.76 divided by 4,455. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Delaware?

USAspending.gov records $1,622,560,314.76 across 4,455 awards with awarding agency 012 and a Delaware tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, or poultry houses. Department of Agriculture in Delaware is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,622,560,314.76.

Is $1,622,560,314.76 a measure of farms, planted acres, or poultry houses?

No. The packet publishes $1,622,560,314.76 and 4,455 awards for agency 012 inside DE 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 4,455 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × DE. Combined with $1,622,560,314.76, the average is about $364,211. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 4,455 is not unique farms, planted acres, or poultry houses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–Delaware table?

Department of Agriculture in Delaware is the overlay. Delaware 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 $1,622,560,314.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is DE.