Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)

Iowa 3rd District × USDA is a place-of-performance join, not a farm census

This page pairs awarding-agency 012, Department of Agriculture, with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance. The join is awarding-agency 012 crossed with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance, not Iowa’s statewide agriculture book and not a census of farms. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $2,143,174,511.08 on 24,396 awards. The extract does not list farms, acres, or producer names. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district has more need, and not a claim that 24,396 awards equal 24,396 farms or 24,396 practices.

Other awarding agencies tagged to IA-03 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 012. Mixing those listings into $2,143,174,511.08 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and cropland acres is not causation. Acreage figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $2,143,174,511.08 in a district treasury. Des Moines folklore is not a county split in this packet. A central Iowa commodity story is not a packet fact and does not explain the cell.

24,396 USDA awards behind the IA-03 obligation sum

Mean obligation is about $87,849.42 if $2,143,174,511.08 were divided evenly across 24,396 lines. That ratio is not a published cost-share rate and not a cost per acre. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of farms, acres, or counties. The 24,396 rows are a high-volume farm-program file.

Twenty-four thousand three hundred ninety-six lines are a high-volume farm-program file. Sort the Iowa 3rd District overlay by amount to see concentration; do not narrate each row. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Iowa 3rd District for the stored table. Do not convert 24,396 into a map of Iowa farms. The $2,143,174,511.08 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a farm census.

Agency 012 obligations in IA-03 are not practices already installed

USDA awards often obligate as farm-program contracts or grants and draw as program years proceed. The $2,143,174,511.08 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of acres treated and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A FSA or NRCS program file dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 012, Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) geography, and the obligation metric.

The awarding-agency title is Department of Agriculture (code 012). This extract does not split crop insurance from conservation, and it does not split commodities from nutrition. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 24,396 awards, agency 012, and Iowa 3rd District (IA-03). This page will not invent a share. This page will not invent producer names as recipients.

What the IA-03 × agency 012 table omits

The extract has no farms, acres, or producer names. Facts remain $2,143,174,511.08, 24,396 awards, agency 012, and Iowa 3rd District (IA-03). This page will not invent a ranking against other districts’ agency-012 joins. A high row count is still a record count, including modifications.

Iowa federal spending and Iowa 3rd District place agency 012 among other listings. Department of Agriculture is the national agency hub. All spending ties indexes other district × agency pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of federal spending the packet never computed. The $2,143,174,511.08 figure is the tagged pair only. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Where the USDA × Iowa 3rd District overlay lives

Start with Iowa 3rd District for the 24,396-award table behind $2,143,174,511.08. Department of Agriculture is the nationwide Department of Agriculture hub. Iowa federal spending gives Iowa context. All spending ties is the shelf for other district-by-agency joins on the same obligation metric. 24,396 awards totaling $2,143,174,511.08 remain a high-volume farm-program file, not a farm census. Producer names and acreage tables are not in this packet. The $2,143,174,511.08 total is the tagged pair only. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join. If a later extract revises the rollup, this page’s facts will be stale until the packet is rebuilt. Do not annualize $2,143,174,511.08: no fiscal year is in the facts.

How to read the IA-03 × USDA pair

A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 012 (Department of Agriculture). The other is congressional-district place of performance as Iowa 3rd District (IA-03). The headline $2,143,174,511.08 is the obligation sum on that intersection, about 21.1 percent of the district’s $10,149,505,104.97 all-agency obligation book. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Agriculture caused Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)’s economy to grow. Correlation between geography and an awarding-agency code is the join — nothing more. Use the internal links to step off this pair. If you need award-level names, open the overlay rather than treating this narrative as a recipient directory.

Questions

How much USDA funding is obligated in Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)?

USAspending.gov shows $2,143,174,511.08 in obligations for Department of Agriculture (agency 012) with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) as place of performance, across 24,396 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not Iowa 3rd District (IA-03)’s full federal book. Other agencies tagged to IA-03 sit on separate pages.

Do 24,396 awards mean 24,396 Iowa farms?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending actions and can include continuations and modifications. It is not a farm or acre census. The packet does not name producers. See the Iowa 3rd District overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Is this Iowa’s entire USDA book?

No. The join is agency 012 crossed with Iowa 3rd District (IA-03) place of performance. Other Iowa districts are separate pairs. Those dollars are not inside $2,143,174,511.08 unless the award also carries IA-03 geography.

Is the USDA total in IA-03 already paid to producers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $2,143,174,511.08 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Program-year draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.