Department of Agriculture obligations in North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00)

USDA × ND-00 is a 32,995-row farm-program join, not a farm census

This page is a join: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) as awarding agency, and North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,465,508,393.44 on 32,995 awards. The join is awarding-agency 012 crossed with North Dakota’s at-large district tag, not North Dakota’s entire farm budget and not a named-producer roster. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district received more, and not a claim that 32,995 awards equal 32,995 farms or 32,995 unique producers.

The Treasury × ND-00 cell in this slice is a different awarding agency. Interior conservation or USDA-coded awards in SD-00 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 012 and ND-00. Mixing those books into $1,465,508,393.44 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 ND-00 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,465,508,393.44 in a district treasury. Fargo-versus-Minot folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

32,995 awards behind $1.47 billion

Mean obligation is about $44,416.07 if $1,465,508,393.44 were divided evenly across 32,995 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. Thirty-two thousand nine hundred ninety-five awards is an extremely thick USDA file: farm-program rows can inflate count without proving 32,995 unique farms. Mean obligation is correspondingly small.

Commodity, conservation, and rural-development vehicles can all appear among the 32,995 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open North Dakota At-Large District for the stored district table. Do not convert 32,995 into a map of North Dakota farms. The $1,465,508,393.44 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a farm census.

North Dakota At-Large, not a county FSA map

North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. North Dakota At-Large (ND-00) is the state’s single House district tag. Awards tagged to SD-00 or MN districts are out. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $102,289,409,487.25 across every awarding agency; $1,465,508,393.44 is the Department of Agriculture slice — about 1.4% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

Treasury also has an ND-00 cell in this slice (13 awards); those dollars are agency 020 and are not inside this USDA pair. The district parent is much larger than either cell. Do not rank ND-00 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other North Dakota district cells are other joins. North Dakota federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Agriculture dollars to $1,465,508,393.44 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 $1,465,508,393.44 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, ND-00 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency book without a ND-00 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, 32,995 awards, agency 012, and North Dakota At-Large District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the ND-00 Agriculture table omits

The extract has no producer names, farm counts, or acreage. Facts remain $1,465,508,393.44, 32,995 awards, agency 012, Department of Agriculture, North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00), and district parent $102,289,409,487.25. 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 32,995-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the USDA × ND-00 pair lives

Start with North Dakota At-Large District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Agriculture cell. Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency listing. North Dakota federal spending gives North Dakota context without a ND-00 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 32,995 awards totaling this cell remain a thick administrative file, not a farm census. The implied mean is a quotient, not a typical check. Keep both Department of Agriculture and North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,465,508,393.44 as cash already paid or as North Dakota’s entire agriculture appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

How much USDA spending is obligated in North Dakota At-Large?

USAspending.gov shows $1,465,508,393.44 in Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligations with North Dakota At-Large District (ND-00) as place of performance, across 32,995 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $102,289,409,487.25 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 012.

Do 32,995 awards mean 32,995 North Dakota farms?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Agriculture actions tagged to ND-00, including possible program-year continuations. It is not a farm census. Mean obligation of about $44,416.07 is a quotient of $1,465,508,393.44 and 32,995, not a typical FSA payment.

Does this USDA cell include the ND-00 Treasury join?

No. Treasury is awarding agency 020, a different pair. $1,465,508,393.44 is about 1.4% of the North Dakota At-Large District parent $102,289,409,487.25 by arithmetic — a small slice of a very large at-large book.

Is the ND-00 USDA total already paid to producers?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,465,508,393.44 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Payment draws and remaining balances are not published here.