Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Rhode Island

USDA awards tagged to Rhode Island

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Rhode Island as place-of-performance: 1,935 records summing to $1,546,996,996.22. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside RI is out. An award in Rhode Island from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Massachusetts-coded award is MA even if the farm stand story is the same.

One thousand nine hundred thirty-five awards is a moderate USDA book for a small, mostly non-farm state. Nutrition instruments can dominate a 012 cell without a published split. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,935 as 1,935 unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Rhode Island is the both-keys table. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without an RI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Do not argue that Rhode Island ‘punches above its weight’ as a farm state. Population and acreage are not packet facts. The join is 012 × RI only. Correlation is not causation: Rhode Island did not cause $1,546,996,996.22 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × RI only.

Not acreage, fisheries, or a farm ranking

$1,546,996,996.22 does not measure farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 012 and an RI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,935 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Rhode Island federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $1,546,996,996.22 and 1,935, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Massachusetts and Connecticut USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Rhode Island, not a New England farm rollup

Place of performance RI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Massachusetts-coded award is MA even if the farm stand story is the same. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Do not argue that Rhode Island ‘punches above its weight’ as a farm state. Population and acreage are not packet facts. The join is 012 × RI only. This packet does not split $1,546,996,996.22 by city, county, or named facility. 1,935 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Assistance rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,546,996,996.22 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Rhode Island confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Rhode Island’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,935-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 $1,546,996,996.22.

Citing USDA in Rhode Island

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $1,546,996,996.22 on 1,935 awards coded to Rhode Island. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in Rhode Island if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Rhode Island federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to RI. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the RI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,546,996,996.22.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, Rhode Island, $1,546,996,996.22, and 1,935. The compact headline $1.55 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $799,482 is $1,546,996,996.22 divided by 1,935. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $1,546,996,996.22 across 1,935 awards with awarding agency 012 and a Rhode Island tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Rhode Island is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,546,996,996.22.

Is $1,546,996,996.22 a measure of farms, planted acres, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $1,546,996,996.22 and 1,935 awards for agency 012 inside RI 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 1,935 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × RI. Combined with $1,546,996,996.22, the average is about $799,482. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,935 is not unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–Rhode Island table?

Department of Agriculture in Rhode Island is the overlay. Rhode Island 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 $1,546,996,996.22. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is RI.