USDA obligations in Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02)
The USDA × MS-02 cell on USAspending.gov is $750,758,615.54 in obligations across 17,617 awards. Seventeen thousand six hundred seventeen USDA-coded awards equal about eight percent of MS-02’s district obligation total. EPA also meets MS-02 on a separate tie; do not add those two agency cells here. That pair is Department of Agriculture and Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) — not Mississippi’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Agriculture nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 8.1% of this district’s published obligation total ($9,265,627,091.88). Implied average obligation is about $42,615.58 ($750,758,615.54 ÷ 17,617). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- USDA in Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02): $750,758,615.54 across 17,617 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $42,615.58 per record; district share 8.1% of $9,265,627,091.88.
- Agency 012 × MS-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Mississippi 2nd District and Department of Agriculture if live tables moved.
- Mississippi federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $750,758,615.54.
A place-of-performance join: USDA × MS-02
Awarding agency 012 and congressional district MS-02 meet here. $750,758,615.54 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 Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 17,617 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a farm census, a crop-acreage file, or a named-grantee file.
Dividing $750,758,615.54 by 17,617 yields about $42,615.58 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 17,617 awards is a thick USDA file. Agency 012 is Department of Agriculture, not EPA agency 068, which occupies a different MS-02 cell. Do not treat MS-02’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account nationwide. Open Mississippi 2nd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a MS-02 filter, Mississippi federal spending for every awarding agency in the Mississippi extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $750,758,615.54.
Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list
USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $750,758,615.54 when crossed with Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require MS-02 geography. The district hub does not require USDA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 17,617 awards. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) did not “cause” $750,758,615.54 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × MS-02 only. It is not a farm census, a crop-acreage file, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Place of performance for Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02)
Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MS-02 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Mississippi districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Mississippi. Other Mississippi districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 012. Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) is the shared geography for this USDA join and a separate EPA join in this harvest. Each page reports one awarding-agency filter.
Obligation math for this join
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $750,758,615.54 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside MS-02 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. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $750,758,615.54 as given.
Mississippi’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 17,617-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 17,617 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. The implied mean ($42,615.58) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MS-02 USDA payment.
What a complete citation includes
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $750,758,615.54 on 17,617 awards coded to Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02). Name Department of Agriculture and Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) together. Keep the obligation word. If Mississippi 2nd District or Department of Agriculture has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a farm census, a crop-acreage file, or a named-grantee file. 8.1% of $9,265,627,091.88 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Using 8.1% and $42,615.58 without overclaiming
17,617 awards is a thick USDA file. Agency 012 is Department of Agriculture, not EPA agency 068, which occupies a different MS-02 cell. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $42,615.58) and the district share (8.1% of $9,265,627,091.88) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Mississippi 2nd District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.
Do not rank Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) as more USDA-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 012 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 012 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $750,758,615.54 and 17,617 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.
Questions
- How much USDA spending is coded to Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02)?
- USAspending.gov lists $750,758,615.54 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 17,617 awards with place of performance in Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02). Agency 012 × MS-02 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Mississippi’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 8.1% of the district’s published total ($9,265,627,091.88). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $42,615.58, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does $750,758,615.54 include every USDA program in MS-02?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $750,758,615.54 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside MS-02 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Agriculture and Mississippi 2nd District to inspect parent tables. 17,617 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $750,758,615.54 cash already paid in Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02)?
- 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 $750,758,615.54 as checks already cleared in Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 17,617 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Is Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) ranked against other Mississippi districts here?
- No. This page does not rank Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) as a winner or loser. $750,758,615.54 and 17,617 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Agriculture and Mississippi 2nd District (MS-02) together without a league table.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.