Department of Agriculture federal obligations in South Carolina

What the USDA–South Carolina join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state SC meet here. $7,935,912,009.33 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Agriculture’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to South Carolina, and not an outlay register. Farm, conservation, research, and nutrition instruments can share 012. Fifty thousand rows make a program pie chart tempting; the facts still do not supply slices.

50,216 is a thick action file: many rows against a mid-single-digit-billion obligation sum, so the mean is pulled down by volume. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $7,935,912,009.33 by 50,216 yields about $158,036 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.

Open Department of Agriculture in South Carolina for the live filtered table, South Carolina federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without a South Carolina filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,935,912,009.33.

Awarding agency 012 as the USDA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $7,935,912,009.33 when crossed with South Carolina place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require SC geography. The South Carolina hub does not require USDA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 50,216 awards.

Acreage, hurricane crop-loss tallies, and grocery prices are unpublished. 50,216 awards is a thick USDA file, so the implied mean is smaller than thin cabinet books. A second USDA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat South Carolina’s 012 cell as a synonym for every USDA account.

South Carolina as place of performance (SC)

South Carolina on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to South Carolina residents. Awards can list SC while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged North Carolina or Georgia stay on those ties even when the coastal-plain story is the same. Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and the rest of SC share one stamp.

South Carolina federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $7,935,912,009.33 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split South Carolina by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $7,935,912,009.33 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside South Carolina coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

South Carolina’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 50,216-row USDA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $7,935,912,009.33 as given. Treat 50,216 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite USDA in South Carolina

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $7,935,912,009.33 on 50,216 awards coded to South Carolina. Name Department of Agriculture and South Carolina together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Agriculture in South Carolina has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Agriculture, South Carolina, $7,935,912,009.33, and 50,216 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a South Carolina filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

Questions

How much USDA spending is coded to South Carolina?

USAspending.gov lists $7,935,912,009.33 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 50,216 South Carolina-coded awards. Agency 012 × SC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not South Carolina’s complete federal ledger. Department of Agriculture in South Carolina is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $158,036, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every USDA program in South Carolina?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $7,935,912,009.33 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside South Carolina coding. Open Department of Agriculture in South Carolina to inspect award lines. 50,216 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $7,935,912,009.33 cash already paid in South Carolina?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $7,935,912,009.33 as checks already cleared in South Carolina confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 50,216 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live USDA–South Carolina table?

Department of Agriculture in South Carolina is the overlay. South Carolina federal spending and Department of Agriculture are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $7,935,912,009.33. Place of performance is SC, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.