Department of Agriculture obligations in Iowa 4th District (IA-04)

USDA × IA-04 is 48,281 rows, not 48,281 farms

This page is a join: Department of Agriculture and Iowa 4th District (IA-04). SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $568,019,600.13 on 48,281 awards for awarding agency 012 with Iowa 4th District (IA-04) as place of performance. Agency 012 crossed with Iowa 4th District (IA-04) is a high-volume USDA listing, not a farm census and not Iowa's entire Agriculture book. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 48,281 awards equal that many farms, acres, or named producers.

Commerce or Interior awards that mention rural Iowa sit outside this cell unless they also carry agency 012 and IA-04 geography. Correlation between this obligation sum and local activity statistics is not causation. Those statistics are not in the packet. Place of performance as IA-04 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $568,019,600.13 in a district treasury. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell.

The densest Agriculture file in this slice

Forty-eight thousand two hundred eighty-one records is the thickest USDA file in this slice. Farm programs often post tens of thousands of rows; the count is still records, not a headcount of operators. Mean obligation is about $11,765 if $568,019,600.13 were divided evenly across 48,281 lines. That ratio is a quotient of two packet facts, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. It is not a census of farms, acres, or named producers. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Agency code 012 is the Department of Agriculture. The awarding-agency tag does not name FSA offices or producers. This packet lists none of them. County offices and producer names are unpublished. Do not treat 48,281 as 48,281 unique farms in northwest Iowa. Open Iowa 4th District (/districts/IA-04/) for the stored district table and Department of Agriculture (/agencies/012/) for the national agency shelf. The $568,019,600.13 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

Iowa 4th District as USDA place of performance

Iowa 4th District (IA-04) is a congressional place-of-performance code. Other Iowa districts are other joins. A Minnesota- or Nebraska-coded Agriculture award is another cell. The district's all-agency obligation total is $8,600,889,536.83. $568,019,600.13 is the Department of Agriculture slice of that book, about 6.6%. Remaining district dollars sit with other awarding agencies on Iowa 4th District, not inside this join. Iowa federal spending (/states/ia/) is the statewide parent.

An obligation is a recorded commitment. An outlay is a payment. The $568,019,600.13 headline is the obligation sum, not commodity or conservation payments already issued. No fiscal year is attached in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Citing the figure as cash already sent in Iowa 4th District (IA-04) confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Iowa Agriculture dollars are commitments, not crop sales

The extract has no roster of farms, acres, or named producers. Facts remain $568,019,600.13, 48,281 awards, agency 012 (Department of Agriculture), Iowa 4th District (IA-04), and a district-wide book of $8,600,889,536.83. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score. Confusing this join with a statewide Agriculture total or a bushel ranking would be a different overlay.

Keep the obligation word on $568,019,600.13. Keep both Department of Agriculture and Iowa 4th District (IA-04) in the citation. All spending ties (/ties/) indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Iowa spending or of Department of Agriculture's national book the packet never computed. The $568,019,600.13 figure is the tagged pair only.

Citing agency 012 in Iowa 4th District (IA-04)

A clean footnote names Department of Agriculture (agency 012), Iowa 4th District (IA-04), $568,019,600.13 in obligations, and 48,281 awards on USAspending.gov. Start at /districts/IA-04/ for the district overlay, /agencies/012/ for the agency rollup, /states/ia/ for Iowa statewide spending, and /ties/ for other pairs. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge. A ties page exists because two tables meet.

Questions

How much did Department of Agriculture obligate in Iowa 4th District (IA-04)?

USAspending.gov shows $568,019,600.13 in obligations for Department of Agriculture (agency 012) with Iowa 4th District (IA-04) as place of performance, across 48,281 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire federal-spending total.

Do 48,281 awards equal 48,281 Iowa farms?

No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of farms, acres, or named producers. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $11,765 is a quotient, not a typical published award.

Is this Iowa's entire Department of Agriculture book?

No. The join is awarding agency 012 crossed with IA-04 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $8,600,889,536.83. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $568,019,600.13 unless they also carry both keys.

Is the Department of Agriculture total in IA-04 already spent?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $568,019,600.13 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.