Department of Agriculture federal obligations in West Virginia

USDA awards tagged to West Virginia

Department of Agriculture as awarding agency, West Virginia as place-of-performance: 26,120 records summing to $3,490,901,606.34. A Department of Agriculture award coded outside WV is out. An award in West Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania.

Twenty-six thousand one hundred twenty awards is a thick USDA file. Volume can rise on recurring nutrition and rural rows without each row being a new producer. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 26,120 as 26,120 unique farms, timber acres, or unique producers. The overlay Department of Agriculture in West Virginia is the both-keys table. West Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Agriculture is the agency book without a WV filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nutrition, conservation, forest, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $3,490,901,606.34. Correlation is not causation: West Virginia did not “cause” $3,490,901,606.34 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 012 × WV only.

Not timber acres or unique producers

$3,490,901,606.34 does not measure farms, timber 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 WV place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 26,120 awards as a census of farms, timber acres, or unique producers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If West Virginia federal spending or Department of Agriculture matched $3,490,901,606.34 and 26,120, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Kentucky, Virginia, and Ohio USDA joins are other pairs, not addends.

West Virginia, not an Appalachian USDA rollup

Place of performance WV is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. West Virginia (WV) excludes Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Nutrition, conservation, forest, and farm instruments can share 012. This packet does not say which dominate $3,490,901,606.34. This packet does not split $3,490,901,606.34 by city, county, or named facility. 26,120 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Thick assistance still records obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,490,901,606.34 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in West Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

West Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 26,120-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 $3,490,901,606.34.

Citing USDA in West Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $3,490,901,606.34 on 26,120 awards coded to West Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as farms, timber acres, or unique producers.

Prefer Department of Agriculture in West Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. West Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WV. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without the WV filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,490,901,606.34.

A usable footnote names Department of Agriculture, West Virginia, $3,490,901,606.34, and 26,120. The compact headline $3.49 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $133,649 is $3,490,901,606.34 divided by 26,120. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Agriculture obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $3,490,901,606.34 across 26,120 awards with awarding agency 012 and a West Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of farms, timber acres, or unique producers. Department of Agriculture in West Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,490,901,606.34.

Is $3,490,901,606.34 a measure of farms, timber acres, or unique producers?

No. The packet publishes $3,490,901,606.34 and 26,120 awards for agency 012 inside WV 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 26,120 awards?

That is the award-record count for 012 × WV. Combined with $3,490,901,606.34, the average is about $133,649. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 26,120 is not unique farms, timber 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 West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia 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 $3,490,901,606.34. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.