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Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Kentucky

USAspending.gov records $9,288,973,871.63 in Department of Agriculture obligations under awarding agency 012 with place of performance in Kentucky, across 74,760 awards. Kentucky’s USDA cell is a thick-file case in this slice: 74,760 awards against a $9.29 billion obligation sum. That arithmetic is a thick-file case: many rows against a large obligation sum, so the mean is pulled down by volume. The pair is Department of Agriculture and Kentucky — not Kentucky’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $124,251 ($9,288,973,871.63 ÷ 74,760).

Key figures

  • USDA in Kentucky: $9,288,973,871.63 across 74,760 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $124,251 per record, not a typical award size.
  • Agency 012 × KY is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Agriculture in Kentucky if the live table moved.
  • Kentucky federal spending and Department of Agriculture are parents, not amounts to add into $9,288,973,871.63.

What the USDA–Kentucky join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $9,288,973,871.63 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Agriculture’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Kentucky, and not an outlay register. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components. 74,760 is a thick action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $9,288,973,871.63 by 74,760 yields about $124,251 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a bushel total, not a farm census, and not a nutrition caseload. A second USDA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Kentucky’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account.

Open Department of Agriculture in Kentucky for the live filtered table, Kentucky federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a Kentucky filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $9,288,973,871.63.

Awarding agency 012 as the USDA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $9,288,973,871.63 when crossed with Kentucky place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require KY geography. The Kentucky hub does not require USDA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 74,760 awards.

This page reports agriculture awarding activity that USAspending coded to Kentucky. Correlation is not causation: Kentucky did not “cause” $9,288,973,871.63 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × KY only. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components.

Kentucky as place of performance (KY)

Kentucky on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Kentucky residents. Awards can list KY while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, or Illinois belong on those ties even when an Ohio River or Appalachian story is the same. Louisville, Lexington, and the rest of the counties share one KY stamp. Place of performance is KY, not a county map.

Kentucky federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $9,288,973,871.63 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Kentucky by county, metro, or congressional district. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to USDA.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $9,288,973,871.63 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside Kentucky coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

Kentucky’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 74,760-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $9,288,973,871.63 as given. Treat 74,760 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

How to cite USDA in Kentucky

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $9,288,973,871.63 on 74,760 awards coded to Kentucky. Name Department of Agriculture and Kentucky together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in Kentucky has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. The pair is not a bushel total, not a farm census, and not a nutrition caseload.

Keep Department of Agriculture, Kentucky, $9,288,973,871.63, and 74,760 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a Kentucky filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a state with USDA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading a thick USDA file in Kentucky

74,760 is a thick action file: many rows against $9,288,973,871.63. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. Modifications, orders, and repeat instruments add rows without proving 74,760 unique recipients. The implied mean (about $124,251) is pulled down by volume. It is a concentration statistic, not a typical Kentucky USDA payment.

Do not rank Kentucky as more USDA-dependent than neighboring states on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 012 ties with different dollar totals. This snapshot holds $9,288,973,871.63 and 74,760 only. Prefer Department of Agriculture in Kentucky if the live table moved.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Kentucky?
USAspending.gov lists $9,288,973,871.63 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 74,760 Kentucky-coded awards. Agency 012 × KY is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Kentucky’s complete federal ledger. Department of Agriculture in Kentucky is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $124,251, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does this total include every USDA program in Kentucky?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Farm, conservation, nutrition, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 012. The packet does not split FNS, FSA, NRCS, or other USDA components. $9,288,973,871.63 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside Kentucky coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Agriculture in Kentucky to inspect award lines. 74,760 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $9,288,973,871.63 cash already paid in Kentucky?
No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $9,288,973,871.63 as checks already cleared in Kentucky confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 74,760 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live USDA–Kentucky table?
Department of Agriculture in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $9,288,973,871.63. Place of performance is KY, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.