Environmental Quality Incentives Program obligations in Montana

What the 10.912–Montana join reports

CFDA 10.912 is titled ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM. Crossed with Montana place of performance, the obligation sum is $175,962,142.46 on 2,427 awards. The national EQIP hub includes other states. Montana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $175,962,142.46 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of acres treated near Billings, Great Falls, or Missoula.

Conservation Reserve, Conservation Stewardship, and other NRCS catalogs use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those into $175,962,142.46 would invent a broader conservation total than this cell contains. Packet facts are $175,962,142.46, 2,427 awards, MT, and 10.912. Correlation is not causation. Producer names are unpublished.

A high award count under Montana EQIP

Two thousand four hundred twenty-seven awards against $175,962,142.46 yield a simple mean near $72,502. That ratio is consistent with many cost-share instruments rather than a handful of large statewide grants, but the facts do not publish a median or a practice mix. 2,427 is a record count, not 2,427 farms and not 2,427 counties.

Treat the mean as arithmetic, not as a typical Montana EQIP contract. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see whether a row is a continuation, a practice payment, or a correction. Unique recipients are unpublished and are not invented here. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.912 × MT pair.

Montana geography on the EQIP tag

MT is the place-of-performance code. An award can post to a county FSA office even when the practice sits on rangeland miles away. Awards coded to Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, or South Dakota stay outside $175,962,142.46 even when a ranch straddles a state line. The facts do not split the 2,427 awards by county.

Montana federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.912 is one row on Montana programs. $176.0 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Montana for the filtered table, CFDA 10.912 for the catalog without a Montana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $175,962,142.46.

What EQIP is not in this Montana cell

A large 10.912 total tagged to Montana does not measure soil-health scores, drought response, or livestock numbers. It does not equal invoices paid to contractors. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. The headline remains $175,962,142.46 on 2,427 awards for Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Montana.

Keep both sides of the join: Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Montana, obligations only. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a rangeland story. This extract does not split irrigation, grazing, or wildlife practices.

Using the Montana × 10.912 overlay

The overlay target is the Montana × CFDA 10.912 table. Open Environmental Quality Incentives Program in Montana when you want the same $175,962,142.46 / 2,427-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.912 drops the Montana filter. Montana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Montana programs lists other catalogs beside EQIP. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to rank Montana against other EQIP states, to name producers, or to treat obligations as cash. The pair is 10.912 plus MT. Obligations of $175,962,142.46 are not outlays. Cite EQIP together with Montana whenever you reuse $175,962,142.46. 2,427 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov.

Citing 10.912 in Montana without extra series

A usable citation names both join sides and the metric: Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Montana place of performance, $175,962,142.46 in obligations, 2,427 awards, source USAspending.gov. Dropping either side turns the cell into Montana’s full USDA book or a nationwide EQIP total, neither of which is published here. No fiscal year is attached in the facts, so the figure is not an annual conservation appropriation.

Sibling EQIP joins in other states are separate obligation cells, not a ranking of which state has better soil or more drought stress. Conservation Reserve and Conservation Stewardship remain on other CFDA numbers. Inspect named award lines on the overlay rather than inferring farm counts. The $175,962,142.46 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards.

Questions

How much EQIP funding is obligated in Montana?

USAspending records $175,962,142.46 in CFDA 10.912 obligations with Montana place of performance across 2,427 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not a farm census. Keep Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Montana together when citing $175,962,142.46. Cite USAspending.gov as the source of this pair.

Does 2,427 awards mean 2,427 Montana farms?

No. The facts report 2,427 award records totaling $175,962,142.46. Producer names and unique recipients are unpublished. 2,427 is a record count in an aggregate, not a farm census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.912 × MT pair. Cite USAspending.gov as the source of this pair.

Is this Montana’s total federal conservation spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.912 only. Other NRCS catalogs appear on separate Montana program pages. Nationwide 10.912 is not limited to Montana. Obligations of $175,962,142.46 are not outlays. The overlay is the live EQIP–Montana table. Cite USAspending.gov as the source of this pair.

Do campaign donations fund Montana EQIP awards?

No. FEC contribution files and USAspending award files are different datasets. This page reports $175,962,142.46 in 10.912 obligations tagged to Montana. Correlation is not causation. Do not treat donations as the funding source for these awards. Cite USAspending.gov as the source of this pair.