Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Massachusetts

What the USDA–Massachusetts join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $11,058,780,297.78 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 Massachusetts, 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. 5,421 is a mid-size action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $11,058,780,297.78 by 5,421 yields about $2.04 million 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 Massachusetts’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account.

Open Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts for the live filtered table, Massachusetts federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,058,780,297.78.

Awarding agency 012 as the USDA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $11,058,780,297.78 when crossed with Massachusetts place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require MA geography. The Massachusetts hub does not require USDA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 5,421 awards.

This page reports agriculture awarding activity that USAspending coded to Massachusetts. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not “cause” $11,058,780,297.78 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × MA 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.

Massachusetts as place of performance (MA)

Massachusetts on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Massachusetts residents. Awards can list MA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, or Rhode Island belong on those ties even when a New England story is the same. Boston and the rest of the counties share one MA stamp. Place of performance is MA, not a county map.

Massachusetts federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $11,058,780,297.78 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Massachusetts 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. $11,058,780,297.78 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 5,421-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $11,058,780,297.78 as given. Treat 5,421 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 Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $11,058,780,297.78 on 5,421 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name Department of Agriculture and Massachusetts together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts 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, Massachusetts, $11,058,780,297.78, and 5,421 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a Massachusetts 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 the USDA–Massachusetts award mix

5,421 is a mid-size action file: 5,421 rows against $11,058,780,297.78, with an implied mean of about $2.04 million. That mix is neither the thickest USDA-style action books nor the sparsest Energy-style files in this portfolio. It still does not publish a median, a program pie, or a unique-recipient count. Treat 5,421 as award records.

The overlay Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending and Department of Agriculture are parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends to $11,058,780,297.78.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov lists $11,058,780,297.78 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 5,421 Massachusetts-coded awards. Agency 012 × MA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2.04 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every USDA program in Massachusetts?

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. $11,058,780,297.78 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside Massachusetts coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts to inspect award lines. 5,421 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $11,058,780,297.78 cash already paid in Massachusetts?

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 $11,058,780,297.78 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 5,421 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–Massachusetts table?

Department of Agriculture in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $11,058,780,297.78. Place of performance is MA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.