Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Pennsylvania

USDA awards inside the Pennsylvania extract

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Pennsylvania as place-of-performance: 44,939 records summing to $21,835,099,375.10. A USDA award in Ohio is a different cell. An SSA award in Pennsylvania sits under agency 028, not 012—the SSA–Pennsylvania join is a separate page.

The implied mean is about $485,900 per award. Nutrition, conservation, and farm programs can share the 44,939-row file. This packet does not publish that mix.

Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania is the overlay. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-agency state hub. All spending ties lists other pairs. Forty-four thousand nine hundred thirty-nine USDA records in Pennsylvania sit beside a much larger SSA–Pennsylvania dollar cell on this site. They are different awarding agencies. $21,835,099,375.10 is agency 012 only. Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania does not include Social Security Administration obligations.

Barns, cities, and one PA tag

Herd counts and acreage are not packet facts. $21,835,099,375.10 does not measure Pennsylvania farm output. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh nutrition awards can sit in the same 012 × PA cell as rural conservation contracts.

44,939 awards are not 44,939 farms. Unique producers are unpublished. Pennsylvania did not cause the cell by hosting both cities and farms. The join is 012 × PA. Correlation is not causation. Dairy and mushroom stories attach easily. Commodity output is not a packet field. Linking $21,835,099,375.10 to herd size is a new dataset. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-agency parent.

Assistance timing

Nutrition and farm vehicles can obligate in one window and pay in another. $21,835,099,375.10 is the commitment sum on 44,939 awards. Citing it as checks already mailed in Pennsylvania confuses obligations with outlays.

Harrisburg’s budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with USAspending.gov leaves this series. Pennsylvania USDA’s 44,939 records sit beside a much larger SSA–Pennsylvania dollar cell. Different awarding agencies. $21,835,099,375.10 is 012 only. Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania does not include Social Security Administration obligations. Dairy output is unpublished. 44,939 is an action count, not unique farms.

Statewide PA, not a county farm map

This packet does not split $21,835,099,375.10 by county. 44,939 awards stay statewide. A commodity table would be a different extract.

Department of Agriculture is the 012 hub without a Pennsylvania filter. Use it for the agency book. Nutrition and farm amendments can move 44,939 and $21,835,099,375.10 on different calendars. Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania stays 012 and does not include the SSA–Pennsylvania join. County farm maps remain a different extract.

Citing USDA in Pennsylvania

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (012) obligated $21,835,099,375.10 on 44,939 awards coded to Pennsylvania. Name Agriculture and Pennsylvania together. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farm income.

Quote Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania if the overlay moved. Do not add the SSA join to this cell. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-agency parent. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Prefer the overlay after ingests. Keep the obligation label on $21,835,099,375.10. Nutrition awards can share agency 012 with farm instruments; the packet does not split them. The implied mean near $485,900 is dollars divided by records.

How to cite USDA in Pennsylvania

Cite Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania, $21,835,099,375.10, and 44,939 awards. All spending ties lists other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent. Do not add the SSA–Pennsylvania join to this cell.

Do not per-farm the total. Do not treat 44,939 as unique producers. Do not assume the file is only rural; nutrition awards can share agency 012. Refresh from Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania after ingests. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov is the source. Cite 44,939 awards with $21,835,099,375.10 and agency 012 so Pennsylvania USDA is not added to the SSA–Pennsylvania join.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov lists $21,835,099,375.10 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 44,939 Pennsylvania-coded awards. Agency 012 × PA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a farm-income total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania is the live overlay for this pair. $21,835,099,375.10 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 44,939 awards.

Is this mostly dairy support?

The packet does not break out commodities. $21,835,099,375.10 is the combined USDA obligation sum inside Pennsylvania coding on 44,939 awards. This packet publishes only the Department of Agriculture (agency 012) join inside Pennsylvania coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $21,835,099,375.10 and 44,939 together.

How is this different from SSA in Pennsylvania?

SSA uses awarding agency 028. This cell is agency 012 only. $21,835,099,375.10 does not include Social Security Administration obligations in the state. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $21,835,099,375.10 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 44,939 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania is the overlay. Pennsylvania federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Pennsylvania federal spending and Department of Agriculture are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $21,835,099,375.10. Obligations are not outlays.