Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Nebraska

A thick USDA file on Nebraska

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Nebraska as place-of-performance: 255,935 records summing to $4,571,840,113.62. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside NE is out. An award in Nebraska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Missouri. A Sioux City, Iowa-coded award is IA.

Two hundred fifty-five thousand nine hundred thirty-five awards is an extreme-count USDA file. Volume can rise on recurring nutrition and farm rows without each row being a new producer. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 255,935 as 255,935 unique farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Nebraska is the both-keys table. Nebraska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without an NE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is much lower than thin State cells. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Nebraska did not “cause” $4,571,840,113.62 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × NE only.

Corn, cattle, and missing commodity fields

$4,571,840,113.62 does not measure farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and an NE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 255,935 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Nebraska federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $4,571,840,113.62 and 255,935, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Nebraska statewide, not a Sandhills map

Place of performance NE is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Nebraska (NE) excludes Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Missouri. A Sioux City, Iowa-coded award is IA. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

The implied mean is much lower than thin State cells. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. This packet does not split $4,571,840,113.62 by city, county, or named facility. 255,935 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

High volume still means obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,571,840,113.62 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Nebraska confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Nebraska’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 255,935-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $4,571,840,113.62. Sharing a state with USDA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing USDA in Nebraska

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $4,571,840,113.62 on 255,935 awards coded to Nebraska. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in Nebraska if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Nebraska federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to NE. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the NE filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,571,840,113.62.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, Nebraska, $4,571,840,113.62, and 255,935. The compact headline $4.57 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $17,863 is $4,571,840,113.62 divided by 255,935. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending.gov records $4,571,840,113.62 across 255,935 awards with awarding agency 012 and a Nebraska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Nebraska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,571,840,113.62.

Is $4,571,840,113.62 a measure of farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $4,571,840,113.62 and 255,935 awards for agency 012 inside NE coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this USDA file have 255,935 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × NE. Combined with $4,571,840,113.62, the average is about $17,863. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 255,935 is not unique farms, planted acres, cattle inventory, or unique producers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Agriculture in Nebraska is the overlay. Nebraska federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $4,571,840,113.62. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.