Department of Agriculture obligations in Vermont At-Large District (VT-00)

A place-of-performance join: Agriculture × VT-00

Awarding agency 012 and congressional district VT-00 meet here. $708,262,530.27 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 Vermont At-Large District (VT-00), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. 2,817 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a farm census, a SNAP caseload, an acreage total, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $708,262,530.27 by 2,817 yields about $251,424.40 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 2,817 awards is a thick Agriculture file. Because VT-00 is at-large, the stamp is statewide in the district sense, still not a farm census or a county map. Do not treat VT-00’s 012 cell as a synonym for every Agriculture account nationwide. Open Vermont At-Large District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Agriculture for agency 012 without the VT-00 filter, Vermont federal spending for every awarding agency in the Vermont extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $708,262,530.27.

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $708,262,530.27 when crossed with Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require VT-00 geography. The district hub does not require Agriculture. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 2,817 awards. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) did not “cause” $708,262,530.27 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × VT-00 only. It is not a farm census, a SNAP caseload, an acreage total, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Place of performance for Vermont At-Large District (VT-00)

Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list VT-00 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Vermont districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) is Vermont’s at-large congressional geography in the USAspending district field, so the stamp covers the state as one district rather than a numbered slice. Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) is the whole-state congressional geography in USAspending’s district field for Vermont. It is not district 90 or 98.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $708,262,530.27 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside VT-00 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. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $708,262,530.27 as given.

Vermont’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,817-row Agriculture cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 2,817 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($251,424.40) is a concentration statistic, not a typical VT-00 Agriculture payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $708,262,530.27 on 2,817 awards coded to Vermont At-Large District (VT-00). Name Department of Agriculture and Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) together. Keep the obligation word. If Vermont At-Large District or Department of Agriculture has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a farm census, a SNAP caseload, an acreage total, or a named-grantee file. 4.0% of $17,839,249,310.25 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 4.0% and $251,424.40 without overclaiming

2,817 awards is a thick Agriculture file. Because VT-00 is at-large, the stamp is statewide in the district sense, still not a farm census or a county map. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $251,424.40) and the district share (4.0% of $17,839,249,310.25) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Vermont At-Large District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) as more Agriculture-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 012 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 012 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $708,262,530.27 and 2,817 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much Agriculture spending is coded to Vermont At-Large District (VT-00)?

USAspending.gov lists $708,262,530.27 in Agriculture (agency 012) obligations across 2,817 awards coded to Vermont At-Large District (VT-00). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Vermont’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 4.0% of the district’s published total ($17,839,249,310.25). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $708,262,530.27 include every Agriculture program in VT-00?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. $708,262,530.27 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside VT-00 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 2,817 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $708,262,530.27 cash already paid in Vermont At-Large District (VT-00)?

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 $708,262,530.27 as checks already cleared in Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,817 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) ranked against other Vermont districts here?

No. This page does not rank Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) as a winner or loser. $708,262,530.27 and 2,817 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Department of Agriculture and Vermont At-Large District (VT-00) together without a league table.