Department of Agriculture obligations in Minnesota 6th District (MN-06)

USDA × MN-06 is a thick farm-program join, not a farm census

This page is a join: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) as awarding agency, and Minnesota 6th District (MN-06) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,628,746,443.94 on 5,013 awards. The join is awarding-agency 012 crossed with an MN-06 location field, not Minnesota’s entire farm budget and not a named-producer or county FSA roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 5,013 awards equal 5,013 farms or 5,013 unique producers.

Interior conservation, EPA water, or USDA-coded awards in MN-07 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 012 and MN-06. Mixing those books into $1,628,746,443.94 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and farm counts is not causation. Acreage and producer-name tables are not in the packet. Place of performance as MN-06 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,628,746,443.94 in a district treasury. St. Cloud-versus-exurban Twin Cities folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

5,013 awards behind $1.63 billion

Mean obligation is about $324,904.54 if $1,628,746,443.94 were divided evenly across 5,013 lines. That ratio is not a published typical FSA payment and not a cost per acre. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of farms, acres, or unique producers. Five thousand thirteen awards is a thick USDA file: many farm-program rows can inflate count without proving 5,013 unique farms.

Commodity, conservation, and rural-development vehicles can all appear among the 5,013 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Minnesota 6th District for the stored district table. Do not convert 5,013 into a map of Minnesota 6th District farms. The $1,628,746,443.94 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a farm census.

Minnesota 6th District, not an exurban-metro farm rollup

Minnesota 6th District (MN-06) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. Awards tagged to MN-07, MN-03, or another Minnesota district are out even if the crop mix sounds related. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $4,354,219,258.74 across every awarding agency; $1,628,746,443.94 is the Department of Agriculture slice — about 37.4% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

A statewide Agriculture figure on Minnesota federal spending mixes every district. Do not rank MN-06 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other Minnesota district cells are other joins. Minnesota federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Agriculture dollars to $1,628,746,443.94 would double count. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.

Agency 012 obligations are not commodity checks already mailed

USDA awards often obligate as farm-program and rural-development rows and draw as producers and communities spend. The $1,628,746,443.94 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of commodity checks cashed and not a Treasury outlay total. A FSA payment dashboard dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 012, MN-06 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency book without a MN-06 filter. This extract does not split FSA from NRCS, and it does not split rural development from food assistance. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 5,013 awards, agency 012, and Minnesota 6th District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the MN-06 Agriculture table omits

The extract has no producer names, farm counts, or acreage. Facts remain $1,628,746,443.94, 5,013 awards, agency 012, Department of Agriculture, Minnesota 6th District (MN-06), and district parent $4,354,219,258.74. County FSA folklore belongs on another extract if it appears at all. Keep the obligation label. Later ingests can revise both the dollars and the 5,013-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the USDA × MN-06 pair lives

Start with Minnesota 6th District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Agriculture cell. Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency listing. Minnesota federal spending gives Minnesota context without a MN-06 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 5,013 awards totaling this cell remain a thick administrative file, not a farm census. Keep both Department of Agriculture and Minnesota 6th District (MN-06) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,628,746,443.94 as cash already paid or as Minnesota’s entire agriculture appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much USDA spending is obligated in Minnesota 6th District?

USAspending.gov shows $1,628,746,443.94 in Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligations with Minnesota 6th District (MN-06) as place of performance, across 5,013 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $4,354,219,258.74 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 012.

Do 5,013 awards mean 5,013 farms in MN-06?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Agriculture actions tagged to MN-06, including possible program-year continuations. It is not a farm census. Mean obligation of about $324,904.54 is a quotient of $1,628,746,443.94 and 5,013, not a typical FSA payment.

Does this USDA cell include Interior conservation in MN-06?

No. This page is awarding agency 012 only. Interior lines are other joins. $1,628,746,443.94 is about 37.4% of the Minnesota 6th District parent $4,354,219,258.74 by arithmetic — a large slice of this district book.

Is the MN-06 USDA total already paid to producers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,628,746,443.94 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Payment draws and remaining balances are not published here.