Department of Agriculture obligations in Montana 1st District (MT-01)

The Montana 1st District (MT-01) filter on Agriculture

Awarding agency 012 and congressional district MT-01 meet here. $676,288,358.38 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 Montana 1st District (MT-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 4,227 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $676,288,358.38 by 4,227 yields about $159,992.51 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 4,227 awards is a moderately thick USDA file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines; the packet does not identify them. Do not treat MT-01's 012 cell as a synonym for every Agriculture account nationwide. Open Montana 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a MT-01 filter, Montana federal spending for every awarding agency in the Montana extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $676,288,358.38.

The Department of Agriculture awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $676,288,358.38 when crossed with Montana 1st District (MT-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require MT-01 geography. The district hub does not require Agriculture. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 4,227 awards. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Montana 1st District (MT-01) did not cause $676,288,358.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × MT-01 only. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, 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.

Reading the MT-01 stamp

Montana 1st District (MT-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MT-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Montana districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Montana 1st District (MT-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Montana. Other Montana districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 012. Montana 1st District (MT-01) is a numbered USAspending geography inside Montana. Neighboring Montana districts are not this join, even when agency 012 appears elsewhere.

Montana federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $676,288,358.38 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Montana 1st District (MT-01) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Agriculture. The district-wide obligation total published here is $8,507,785,008.14; $676,288,358.38 is the Agriculture slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $676,288,358.38 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside MT-01 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 $676,288,358.38 as given.

Montana's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 4,227-row Agriculture cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 4,227 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 ($159,992.51) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MT-01 Agriculture payment.

Citing $676,288,358.38 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $676,288,358.38 on 4,227 awards coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01). Name Department of Agriculture and Montana 1st District (MT-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Montana 1st 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 commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file. 7.9% of $8,507,785,008.14 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

4,227 awards is a moderately thick USDA file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines; the packet does not identify them. Other states' 1st districts are not this Montana geography. Same awarding-agency code 012 does not merge those stamps into MT-01. 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 $159,992.51) and the district share (7.9% of $8,507,785,008.14) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Montana 1st District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Agriculture spending is coded to Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

USAspending.gov lists $676,288,358.38 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 4,227 awards with place of performance in Montana 1st District (MT-01). Agency 012 × MT-01 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Montana's complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.9% of the district's published total ($8,507,785,008.14). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $159,992.51, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $676,288,358.38 include every Agriculture program in MT-01?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $676,288,358.38 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside MT-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Agriculture and Montana 1st District to inspect parent tables. 4,227 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $676,288,358.38 cash already paid in Montana 1st District (MT-01)?

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 $676,288,358.38 as checks already cleared in Montana 1st District (MT-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 4,227 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $159,992.51 not a typical award?

The average is $676,288,358.38 divided by 4,227 awards, about $159,992.51. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.