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Department of Agriculture obligations in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03)

Awarding agency 012 and Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) meet at $677,558,516.30 in USAspending.gov obligations, spread across 13,131 awards. Thirteen thousand one hundred thirty-one Agriculture-coded awards — a thick USDA action file — still resolve to about seven percent of WI-03's district obligation total. That pair is Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) — not Wisconsin's entire federal inflow, not Department of Agriculture nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 7.1% of this district's published obligation total ($9,571,919,025.57). Implied average obligation is about $51,599.92 ($677,558,516.30 ÷ 13,131). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Agriculture in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03): $677,558,516.30 across 13,131 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $51,599.92 per record; district share 7.1% of $9,571,919,025.57.
  • Agency 012 × WI-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Wisconsin 3rd District and Department of Agriculture if live tables moved.
  • Wisconsin federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $677,558,516.30.

Reading agency 012 inside WI-03

Awarding agency 012 and congressional district WI-03 meet here. $677,558,516.30 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 Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. 13,131 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file.

This page reports agriculture awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $677,558,516.30 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $9,571,919,025.57; the 7.1% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of Wisconsin districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.

Agency 012 without inventing a component pie

USAspending labels awarding agency 012 as Department of Agriculture. That code produced $677,558,516.30 when crossed with Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) place of performance. The agency-wide 012 hub does not require WI-03 geography. The district hub does not require Agriculture. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 13,131 awards. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) did not cause $677,558,516.30 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 012 × WI-03 only. This cell is not a farm census, a commodity ledger, 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.

How Wisconsin 3rd District is coded

Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list WI-03 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Wisconsin districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 012. Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Wisconsin. Other Wisconsin districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 012. Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) is the place-of-performance filter. Other Wisconsin districts, including those with Interior rather than Agriculture filters, are different joins.

Wisconsin federal spending shows how agency 012 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $677,558,516.30 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Agriculture. The district-wide obligation total published here is $9,571,919,025.57; $677,558,516.30 is the Agriculture slice of that denominator.

What the dollar figure is allowed to mean

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $677,558,516.30 is that kind of sum for Department of Agriculture inside WI-03 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 $677,558,516.30 as given.

Wisconsin's own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 13,131-row Agriculture cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 13,131 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 ($51,599.92) is a concentration statistic, not a typical WI-03 Agriculture payment.

Parents of this tie: district, agency, state

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Agriculture (agency 012) obligated $677,558,516.30 on 13,131 awards coded to Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03). Name Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) together. Keep the obligation word. If Wisconsin 3rd 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 commodity ledger, or a named-grantee file. 7.1% of $9,571,919,025.57 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03), $677,558,516.30, and 13,131 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Agriculture is the 012 parent without a WI-03 filter. Wisconsin federal spending is the Wisconsin parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with Agriculture does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Limits of the WI-03 × 012 snapshot

13,131 rows is a thick USDA file: modifications and repeat instruments add lines. Unique recipients are unpublished, and the implied mean is pulled down by volume. Other Agriculture × district pages are separate cells. Do not add those district totals into WI-03. 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 $51,599.92) and the district share (7.1% of $9,571,919,025.57) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Wisconsin 3rd District and Department of Agriculture if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) 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 $677,558,516.30 and 13,131 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 Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03)?
USAspending.gov lists $677,558,516.30 in Department of Agriculture obligations across 13,131 awards with place of performance in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03). Agency 012 × WI-03 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Wisconsin's complete federal ledger. The cell is 7.1% of the district's published total ($9,571,919,025.57). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $51,599.92, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does $677,558,516.30 include every Agriculture program in WI-03?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split USDA programs or contract versus assistance instruments. $677,558,516.30 is the combined obligation sum for agency 012 inside WI-03 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin 3rd District to inspect parent tables. 13,131 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $677,558,516.30 cash already paid in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03)?
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 $677,558,516.30 as checks already cleared in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 13,131 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Do FEC donations fund these Agriculture awards in WI-03?
No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing Wisconsin geography does not mean donations funded $677,558,516.30 in Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03). This page reports USAspending.gov awarding-agency 012 crossed with place of performance WI-03. It does not report campaign finance. Keep Department of Agriculture and Wisconsin 3rd District (WI-03) on the same citation.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.