Department of Agriculture federal obligations in District of Columbia

USDA awards tagged to the District

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 3,432 records summing to $4,210,277,735.56. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Beltsville-coded award is Maryland even if the office sits inside the Beltway story.

Three thousand four hundred thirty-two awards is a mid-count USDA file for this dollar scale — not a Corn Belt flood of hundreds of thousands of rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,432 as 3,432 unique farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nutrition, conservation, research, and farm instruments can share 012. Headquarters location does not convert DC into a farm state. $4,210,277,735.56 is a place-of-performance join. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not “cause” $4,210,277,735.56 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × DC only.

Headquarters folklore is not acreage

$4,210,277,735.56 does not measure farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,432 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $4,210,277,735.56 and 3,432, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

The District is not Maryland or Virginia

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Beltsville-coded award is Maryland even if the office sits inside the Beltway story. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Nutrition, conservation, research, and farm instruments can share 012. Headquarters location does not convert DC into a farm state. $4,210,277,735.56 is a place-of-performance join. This packet does not split $4,210,277,735.56 by city, county, or named facility. 3,432 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Place-of-performance DC, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,210,277,735.56 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,432-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 $4,210,277,735.56. Sharing a state with USDA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing USDA in the District

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $4,210,277,735.56 on 3,432 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,210,277,735.56.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, District of Columbia, $4,210,277,735.56, and 3,432. The compact headline $4.21 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.23 million is $4,210,277,735.56 divided by 3,432. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $4,210,277,735.56 across 3,432 awards with awarding agency 012 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,210,277,735.56.

Is $4,210,277,735.56 a measure of farms, planted acres, grocery prices, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $4,210,277,735.56 and 3,432 awards for agency 012 inside DC 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 3,432 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × DC. Combined with $4,210,277,735.56, the average is about $1.23 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,432 is not unique farms, planted acres, grocery prices, 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 District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia 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 $4,210,277,735.56. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.