Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Vermont

A thick USDA file on Vermont

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, Vermont as place-of-performance: 6,825 records summing to $1,377,908,530.18. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside VT is out. An award in Vermont from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Vermont (VT) excludes New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts. A New York-coded award is NY even if the farm sits on the lake.

Six thousand eight hundred twenty-five awards is a thick assistance-style 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 6,825 as 6,825 unique farms, planted acres, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in Vermont is the both-keys table. Vermont federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without a VT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nutrition, conservation, forest, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $1,377,908,530.18. Correlation is not causation: Vermont did not cause $1,377,908,530.18 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × VT only.

Dairy and maple are not packet fields

$1,377,908,530.18 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 a VT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 6,825 awards as a census of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Vermont federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $1,377,908,530.18 and 6,825, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Vermont statewide, not a Champlain valley map

Place of performance VT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Vermont (VT) excludes New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts. A New York-coded award is NY even if the farm sits on the lake. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Nutrition, conservation, forest, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $1,377,908,530.18. This packet does not split $1,377,908,530.18 by city, county, or named facility. 6,825 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. $1,377,908,530.18 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Vermont confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Vermont’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 6,825-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 $1,377,908,530.18.

Citing USDA in Vermont

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $1,377,908,530.18 on 6,825 awards coded to Vermont. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, planted acres, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in Vermont if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Vermont federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VT. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the VT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,377,908,530.18.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, Vermont, $1,377,908,530.18, and 6,825. The compact headline $1.38 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $201,891 is $1,377,908,530.18 divided by 6,825. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov records $1,377,908,530.18 across 6,825 awards with awarding agency 012 and a Vermont tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, planted acres, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in Vermont is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,377,908,530.18.

Is $1,377,908,530.18 a measure of farms, planted acres, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $1,377,908,530.18 and 6,825 awards for agency 012 inside VT 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 6,825 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × VT. Combined with $1,377,908,530.18, the average is about $201,891. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 6,825 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 table?

Department of Agriculture in Vermont is the overlay. Vermont 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 $1,377,908,530.18. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.