Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Idaho (agency 012)

What the Agriculture–Idaho join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state ID meet here. $4,812,428,848 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Agriculture’s nationwide budget, not Idaho’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Potato, forest, and irrigation folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a farm census.

34,032 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. A long row list can mix small assistance actions with larger instruments. The join does not rank Idaho against other states and does not name crops or forests inside the extract.

Open Department of Agriculture in Idaho for the filtered table, Idaho federal spending for the next hub, Department of Agriculture for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A long Agriculture award list under one Idaho filter

Dividing $4,812,428,848 by 34,032 yields about $141,409 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical farm-program award. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a count of farms. Forest-unit names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Potato, forest, and irrigation folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 012 without an Idaho overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Agriculture page aggregates 012 without requiring ID geography. The Idaho federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Idaho place of performance. Only Department of Agriculture in Idaho applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 34,032 awards and $4,812,428,848.

Place of performance in Idaho is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list ID while later work occurs in Washington or Oregon. USDA awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Boise. This packet does not split Boise from Idaho Falls or Coeur d’Alene.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,812,428,848 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Idaho over-reads the field.

Award count 34,032 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Idaho–USDA overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Agriculture total in Idaho does not mean the agency caused Idaho’s crop mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between farm geography and USDA awards is expected; it is not a finding about subsidies or waste.

Keep $4,812,428,848 labeled as agency 012 obligations with Idaho place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Idaho–Agriculture pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 012 (Department of Agriculture), Idaho place of performance, $4,812,428,848 in obligations, and 34,032 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $4,812,428,848 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $141,409 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical farm-program award.

Department of Agriculture in Idaho, Idaho federal spending, Department of Agriculture, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $4,812,428,848 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Boise-versus-Idaho Falls folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Crop names are not packet fields. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Agriculture obligated in Idaho?

USAspending.gov records $4,812,428,848 in obligations for awarding agency 012 with Idaho place of performance, covering 34,032 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Agriculture’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so many USDA awards in Idaho relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 34,032 award actions totaling $4,812,428,848. Average obligation per award is about $141,409, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical farm-program award. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Boise-only Agriculture total?

No. $4,812,428,848 and 34,032 awards are statewide Idaho place of performance. This packet does not split Boise from Idaho Falls or Coeur d’Alene. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Agriculture–Idaho table?

Department of Agriculture in Idaho is the overlay. Idaho federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Agriculture shows agency 012 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.