Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Minnesota

USDA’s Minnesota-coded award book

Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of Agriculture, CGAC 012. Geography is Minnesota. The surviving file is $15,708,796,787.44 and 255,852 awards. FNS, FSA, NRCS, Forest Service, and other USDA awarding offices can roll up under agency 012. This packet does not classify those rows. Other awarding agencies inside Minnesota sit on other pages even when the same metro hosts their work.

Dollars per record come to about $61,398. That mean mixes large assistance or contract vehicles with smaller actions. It is not a typical farm receipt and not a typical nutrition-award invoice. Unique recipients are unpublished. A quarter-million USDA rows under a Minnesota tag is a high-count Agriculture book. High counts often reflect many small farm-program or nutrition actions; this packet still does not classify them.

What the USDA–Minnesota pair is not

This join is not a crop report, a drought score, or a grocery-price index. $15,708,796,787.44 measures award obligations with a 012 awarding-agency code and a MN place-of-performance tag. Minnesota’s farm-and-Twin-Cities reputation in ordinary speech is background, not a packet field. This join does not publish a metro-versus-Greater-Minnesota split. Wisconsin and Iowa awards stay in other state cells.

Department of Agriculture in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency in the state extract. Department of Agriculture is the parent agency hub without a Minnesota filter. All spending ties holds the rest of the join list. Correlation is not causation: sharing a state with USDA does not mean the state caused the cell.

Obligation versus outlay on agency 012

Assistance and contract awards can obligate in one fiscal window and pay on a different schedule. $15,708,796,787.44 is the commitment sum. Treating it as cash already cleared in Minnesota confuses obligations with outlays. The packet does not assign a fiscal year to the headline; treat $15,708,796,787.44 as the obligation total present in the indexed file.

Minnesota’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 255,852-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include de-obligations. The implied mean near $61,398 is dollars divided by records, not a typical farm receipt and not a typical nutrition-award invoice.

One MN tag, not Hennepin versus the Iron Range

This packet does not split $15,708,796,787.44 by county, metro, or the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota. 255,852 awards stay statewide. Neighboring Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota remain other state cells even when labor markets or projects cross those lines. Publishing Hennepin versus the Iron Range as a subtotal would invent a number.

Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Department of Agriculture is the 012 hub without a Minnesota filter. Use it for the agency book; use this page for the MN intersection only.

Citing USDA in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (012) obligated $15,708,796,787.44 on 255,852 awards coded to Minnesota. Name USDA and Minnesota together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in Minnesota has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Peer USDA-state joins use the same two facts—dollars and award counts—and still are not a ranking of USDA importance. Minnesota federal spending includes other agency cells that must not be added into this total. All spending ties is the index. Obligations are not outlays.

How to reuse the Minnesota USDA integers

Keep Department of Agriculture, Minnesota, $15,708,796,787.44, and 255,852 awards together. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. Do not treat 255,852 as unique organizations. Do not annualize without a year field. A quarter-million USDA rows under a Minnesota tag is a high-count Agriculture book. High counts often reflect many small farm-program or nutrition actions; this packet still does not classify them.

Refresh from Department of Agriculture in Minnesota after ingests. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a Minnesota filter. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency parent. All spending ties indexes other pairs. USAspending.gov is the source. Keep the obligation label on $15,708,796,787.44.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Minnesota?

USAspending.gov lists $15,708,796,787.44 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 255,852 Minnesota-coded awards. Agency 012 × MN is an obligation join, not an outlay. Department of Agriculture in Minnesota is the live overlay. Later ingests can revise 255,852 awards; prefer the overlay if the table moved.

What programs sit inside the USDA–Minnesota total?

The packet does not split nutrition assistance from farm, conservation, or research awards. $15,708,796,787.44 is the combined obligation sum for awarding agency 012 inside Minnesota coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $15,708,796,787.44 and 255,852 together. Do not infer a program mix from the state tag alone.

Is $15,708,796,787.44 cash already spent in Minnesota?

No. $15,708,796,787.44 is an obligation total on USAspending.gov, not an outlay register and not a Treasury payment file. Awards can obligate in one window and pay on another. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert 255,852 awards into cash already paid.

Where is the live USDA–Minnesota table?

Department of Agriculture in Minnesota is the overlay at /states/mn/agencies/012/. Minnesota federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $15,708,796,787.44. Obligations are not outlays.