Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Louisiana

What the USDA–Louisiana join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state LA meet here. $11,578,121,840.48 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 Louisiana, 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. 66,804 is a thick action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $11,578,121,840.48 by 66,804 yields about $173,315 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 Louisiana’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account.

Open Department of Agriculture in Louisiana for the live filtered table, Louisiana federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a Louisiana filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,578,121,840.48.

Awarding agency 012 as the USDA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $11,578,121,840.48 when crossed with Louisiana place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require LA geography. The Louisiana hub does not require USDA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 66,804 awards.

This page reports agriculture awarding activity that USAspending coded to Louisiana. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not “cause” $11,578,121,840.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × LA 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.

Louisiana as place of performance (LA)

Louisiana on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Louisiana residents. Awards can list LA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Texas, Arkansas, or Mississippi belong on those ties even when a Gulf or Mississippi River story is the same. New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and the rest of the parishes share one LA stamp. Place of performance is LA, not a county map.

Louisiana federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $11,578,121,840.48 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Louisiana 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. $11,578,121,840.48 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside Louisiana 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.

Louisiana’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 66,804-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $11,578,121,840.48 as given. Treat 66,804 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 Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $11,578,121,840.48 on 66,804 awards coded to Louisiana. Name Department of Agriculture and Louisiana together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in Louisiana 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, Louisiana, $11,578,121,840.48, and 66,804 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a Louisiana 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 Louisiana

66,804 is a thick action file: many rows against $11,578,121,840.48. 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 66,804 unique recipients. The implied mean (about $173,315) is pulled down by volume. It is a concentration statistic, not a typical Louisiana USDA payment.

Do not rank Louisiana 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 $11,578,121,840.48 and 66,804 only. Prefer Department of Agriculture in Louisiana if the live table moved.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Louisiana?

USAspending.gov lists $11,578,121,840.48 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 66,804 Louisiana-coded awards. Agency 012 × LA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Louisiana’s complete federal ledger. Department of Agriculture in Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $173,315, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every USDA program in Louisiana?

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. $11,578,121,840.48 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside Louisiana coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Agriculture in Louisiana to inspect award lines. 66,804 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $11,578,121,840.48 cash already paid in Louisiana?

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 $11,578,121,840.48 as checks already cleared in Louisiana confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 66,804 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–Louisiana table?

Department of Agriculture in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana 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 $11,578,121,840.48. Place of performance is LA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.