Department of Agriculture obligations in South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00)

USDA × SD-00 is a 63,685-row farm-program join, not a farm census

This page is a join: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) as awarding agency, and South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) as congressional district place of performance. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations to $1,414,414,106.32 on 63,685 awards. The join is awarding-agency 012 crossed with South Dakota’s at-large district tag, not South 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 63,685 awards equal 63,685 farms or 63,685 unique producers.

The Interior × SD-00 cell in this slice is a different awarding agency. USDA-coded awards in ND-00 sit outside this total unless they also carry agency 012 and SD-00. Mixing those books into $1,414,414,106.32 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 SD-00 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $1,414,414,106.32 in a district treasury. Sioux Falls-versus-Pierre folklore is not a geography split in this packet.

63,685 awards behind $1.41 billion

Mean obligation is about $22,209.53 if $1,414,414,106.32 were divided evenly across 63,685 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. Sixty-three thousand six hundred eighty-five awards is an extremely thick USDA file: farm-program rows can inflate count without proving 63,685 unique farms. Mean obligation is correspondingly small.

Commodity, conservation, and rural-development vehicles can all appear among the 63,685 lines. This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open South Dakota At-Large District for the stored district table. Do not convert 63,685 into a map of South Dakota farms. The $1,414,414,106.32 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on the overlay rather than inferring a farm census.

South Dakota At-Large, not a county FSA map

South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) is one geography tag on USAspending awards, not a commuting zone and not a metro list. South Dakota At-Large (SD-00) is the state’s single House district tag. Awards tagged to ND-00 or NE districts are out. Recipient address can differ from that district tag. The district parent in this extract is $20,304,783,123.44 across every awarding agency; $1,414,414,106.32 is the Department of Agriculture slice — about 7.0% of that parent by arithmetic. Subtracting is tempting; this page still does not publish the leftover agency list.

Interior also has an SD-00 cell in this slice; those dollars are agency 014 and are not inside this USDA pair. Do not rank SD-00 against neighboring districts as a winner or loser. Other South Dakota district cells are other joins. South Dakota federal spending is the statewide book without a district filter. Adding statewide Department of Agriculture dollars to $1,414,414,106.32 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 $1,414,414,106.32 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, SD-00 geography, and the obligation metric.

Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency book without a SD-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, 63,685 awards, agency 012, and South Dakota At-Large District. This page will not invent a share. Unique recipients remain unpublished.

What the SD-00 Agriculture table omits

The extract has no producer names, farm counts, or acreage. Facts remain $1,414,414,106.32, 63,685 awards, agency 012, Department of Agriculture, South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00), and district parent $20,304,783,123.44. 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 63,685-award count; prefer the live table when the overlay and this snapshot diverge.

Where the USDA × SD-00 pair lives

Start with South Dakota At-Large District for the district rollup that contains this Department of Agriculture cell. Department of Agriculture is the nationwide agency listing. South Dakota federal spending gives South Dakota context without a SD-00 filter. All spending ties indexes other two-key joins on the same obligation metric. 63,685 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 South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) in every citation sentence. Do not recast $1,414,414,106.32 as cash already paid or as South Dakota’s entire agriculture appropriation. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov shows $1,414,414,106.32 in Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligations with South Dakota At-Large District (SD-00) as place of performance, across 63,685 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district’s full $20,304,783,123.44 parent. Other agencies sit outside this join unless they also carry 012.

Do 63,685 awards mean 63,685 South Dakota farms?

No. Award count is a row count of Department of Agriculture actions tagged to SD-00, including possible program-year continuations. It is not a farm census. Mean obligation of about $22,209.53 is a quotient of $1,414,414,106.32 and 63,685, not a typical FSA payment.

Does this USDA cell include the SD-00 Interior join?

No. Interior is awarding agency 014, a different pair. $1,414,414,106.32 is about 7.0% of the South Dakota At-Large District parent $20,304,783,123.44 by arithmetic and does not include Interior rows. Cite USAspending.gov as the source.

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

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $1,414,414,106.32 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Payment draws and remaining balances are not published here.