Department of Agriculture federal obligations in Wyoming

What the Agriculture-Wyoming join is

Awarding agency 012 and place-of-performance state WY meet here. $1,205,655,595.81 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Agriculture's nationwide budget, not Wyoming's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Ranch, national-forest, and rural-development folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Wyoming acres.

20,690 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a very long award list beside a billion-dollar obligation total. A very long row list can mix small rural instruments with larger forest and farm awards. The join does not rank Wyoming against other states and does not name forests inside the extract.

Open Department of Agriculture in Wyoming for the filtered table, Wyoming federal spending for the next hub, Department of Agriculture for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

20,690 Agriculture actions under one Wyoming filter

Dividing $1,205,655,595.81 by 20,690 yields about $58,272.38 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical conservation contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not an acre census. Forest names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Ranch, national-forest, and rural-development folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 012 without a Wyoming overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Agriculture page aggregates 012 without requiring WY geography. The Wyoming federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Wyoming place of performance. Only Department of Agriculture in Wyoming applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 20,690 awards and $1,205,655,595.81.

Place of performance in Wyoming is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list WY while later work occurs in Montana or Colorado. Agriculture awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Cheyenne. This packet does not split Cheyenne from Casper or Jackson.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,205,655,595.81 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Wyoming over-reads the field.

Award count 20,690 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Wyoming-USDA overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Agriculture total in Wyoming does not mean the agency caused Wyoming's land mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between ranch geography and USDA awards is expected; it is not a finding about conservation quality or waste.

Keep $1,205,655,595.81 labeled as agency 012 obligations with Wyoming place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Wyoming-Agriculture pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 012 (Department of Agriculture), Wyoming place of performance, $1,205,655,595.81 in obligations, and 20,690 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,205,655,595.81 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $58,272.38 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical conservation contract.

Department of Agriculture in Wyoming, Wyoming federal spending, Department of Agriculture, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,205,655,595.81 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Cheyenne-versus-Jackson folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Do not treat 20,690 rows as 20,690 ranches. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Agriculture obligated in Wyoming?

USAspending.gov records $1,205,655,595.81 in obligations for awarding agency 012 with Wyoming place of performance, covering 20,690 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Agriculture's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so many USDA awards in Wyoming relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 20,690 award actions totaling $1,205,655,595.81. Average obligation per award is about $58,272.38, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical conservation contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Cheyenne-only Agriculture total?

No. $1,205,655,595.81 and 20,690 awards are statewide Wyoming place of performance. This packet does not split Cheyenne from Casper or Jackson. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Agriculture-Wyoming table?

Department of Agriculture in Wyoming is the overlay. Wyoming federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Agriculture shows agency 012 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.