Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Illinois

A high-count USDA book on an Illinois tag

Three hundred seven thousand two hundred ninety-four records survive the join of Department of Agriculture and Illinois place-of-performance. They sum to $24,114,100,406.90. The implied mean is about $78,500 per award. Farm, conservation, and nutrition programs can mint many moderate actions. This packet does not say which dominate the 307,294 rows.

A thick count is not 307,294 unique Illinois farms. Recurring assistance and modifications add rows. Unique producers are unpublished.

Department of Agriculture in Illinois is the overlay. Illinois federal spending still includes the thin Energy cell and every other agency. All spending ties lists other pairs. Three hundred seven thousand two hundred ninety-four USDA actions in Illinois are a thick-file cousin of Texas USDA, with a lower dollar total. $24,114,100,406.90 should be quoted with the count so the cell is not mistaken for Illinois Energy’s 478-row book. Department of Agriculture in Illinois is agency 012, not 089.

Bushels are not a USAspending column

Planted acres, yields, and elevator prices are not packet facts. $24,114,100,406.90 does not measure Illinois grain output. Nutrition awards can sit in the same 012 × IL cell as farm contracts.

Chicago is not excluded by the state tag, and downstate is not a separate total. The packet is statewide. Illinois did not cause the cell by growing corn. The join is 012 × IL. Correlation is not causation. Bushels and elevator prices are not packet facts. Linking $24,114,100,406.90 to corn futures is a new dataset. Illinois federal spending still includes the Energy join and every other awarding agency.

Many actions, still commitments

Even a thick assistance file records obligations. $24,114,100,406.90 can include amounts that pay later. Citing it as checks already mailed in Illinois confuses obligations with outlays.

Springfield’s budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with USAspending.gov leaves this series. Illinois USDA’s 307,294 records are a thick-file cousin of Texas USDA with a lower dollar total. $24,114,100,406.90 should be quoted with the count so the cell is not mistaken for Illinois Energy’s 478-row book. Department of Agriculture in Illinois is 012, not 089. Unique farms remain unpublished.

Statewide IL, not a county crop map

This packet does not split $24,114,100,406.90 by county. 307,294 awards stay statewide. A commodity table would be a different extract.

Department of Agriculture is the 012 hub without an Illinois filter. Use it for the agency book.

Citing USDA in Illinois

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (012) obligated $24,114,100,406.90 on 307,294 awards coded to Illinois. Mention the high award count so readers do not hear a thin Energy-style file. Keep “obligations.”

Quote Department of Agriculture in Illinois if the overlay moved. Do not convert $24,114,100,406.90 into bushels. Illinois federal spending still includes the Energy join. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Prefer the overlay after ingests. Keep the obligation label. The implied mean near $78,500 is dollars divided by 307,294 records, including modifications, not a typical subsidy check.

Keep volume and dollars on separate lines

307,294 is the activity story. $24,114,100,406.90 is the dollar story. A busy file of modifications can raise the count without lifting obligations much. Quote both integers.

Do not divide $24,114,100,406.90 by an invented farm census. That denominator is not a packet fact. Cite Department of Agriculture, Illinois, $24,114,100,406.90, and 307,294 awards. All spending ties lists other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not per-farm the total. Do not treat 307,294 as unique producers. Do not convert the mean near $78,500 into a typical subsidy check—it is dollars divided by records, including modifications. Thick files move at the edges. Prefer the overlay Department of Agriculture in Illinois when this snapshot disagrees. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov is the source.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Illinois?

USAspending.gov shows $24,114,100,406.90 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 307,294 Illinois-coded awards. Agency 012 × IL is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a grain-value total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Agriculture in Illinois is the live overlay for this pair. $24,114,100,406.90 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 307,294 awards.

Why are there more than 300,000 awards?

The extract counts 307,294 award actions. Recurring farm and nutrition programs can thicken a file. Unique farms are unpublished in this packet. This packet publishes only the Department of Agriculture (agency 012) join inside Illinois coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $24,114,100,406.90 and 307,294 together.

Is this mostly corn and soybean support?

The packet does not break out commodities. $24,114,100,406.90 is the combined USDA obligation sum inside Illinois coding. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $24,114,100,406.90 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 307,294 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Agriculture in Illinois is the overlay. Illinois federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Illinois federal spending and Department of Agriculture are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $24,114,100,406.90. Obligations are not outlays.