AGRICULTURE money in federal elections

A sector word, not a farm census

FEC forms store AGRICULTURE when that is what the filer typed. They do not apply NAICS 11. The $5,317,336 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches the word. It is not harvested acreage, not a USDA subsidy file, and not every staffer who typed FARMER, FARMING, or a commodity-board name instead.

People who typed AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT, US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FARM, or a grower legal name sit in other rows if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into AGRICULTURE. The FEC field is not a Farm Service Agency producer list. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the word.

493 donors and 16,590 lines

493 unique donors produced 16,590 AGRICULTURE contribution lines totaling $5,317,336. That is on the order of 34 itemized receipts per donor — a high-repeat pattern for a one-word sector label. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among crop, livestock, and agribusiness jobs.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and association PAC filings are outside the $5,317,336 unless an individual receipt itself carries this word. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

USDA, farmer, and grower names stay out

USDA-style agency strings and FARMER as a title are separate keys. Combining them with AGRICULTURE would mix a generic sector word, a federal-employer label, and an occupation word. This page stays at $5,317,336 for AGRICULTURE only.

Occupation breakdowns list titles next to AGRICULTURE. Some donors pair the word with SELF; those pairs are stored as typed and are not merged here unless the grouped key is AGRICULTURE. State filings are omitted from the $5,317,336.

Donor table

The AGRICULTURE donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a farm size, a commodity, or a motive from the sector word. The 493 unique-person count is not an employment census of U.S. agriculture.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the word. Repeat names among 16,590 lines from 493 people are expected. People who typed FARMER or a USDA agency name are not in these 493 unless a receipt also grouped to AGRICULTURE.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,317,336, 16,590 contributions, 493 donors, top employer AGRICULTURE. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this word.

Keep AGRICULTURE’s $5,317,336, 16,590 contributions, and 493 donors on this one-word sector label. USDA strings, FARMER, grower legal names, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS production total.

Sector-word dollars versus USDA and farmer rows

AGRICULTURE as one word is the stored key behind $5,317,336. US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FARMER, and grower legal names remain other keys if stored that way. Association PAC filings are other FEC documents. Unitemized gifts stay outside the 16,590 lines from 493 donors.

About 34 receipts per person is a high-repeat pattern for a sector word. That density is still a reading of itemized individual receipts, not a Farm Service Agency producer file and not harvested-acreage statistics. The packet does not split crop, livestock, and agribusiness jobs.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside AGRICULTURE. The industry index ranks USDA-style and farmer strings separately. Follow the donor table for disclosed committees. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the sector word. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Keep AGRICULTURE’s 493 donors and 16,590 lines on the one-word sector label. USDA-style strings and FARMER remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,317,336 only.

Questions

How much have AGRICULTURE-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,317,336 to the AGRICULTURE employer string, from 16,590 contributions and 493 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a farm-bureau PAC and not a NAICS crop-and-animal total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this USDA employee giving?

Only if the grouped employer text is AGRICULTURE. US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and similar agency strings are separate keys if stored that way. The $5,317,336 total is individual contributions whose text grouped to the one-word label. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include people who wrote farmer?

Only if the grouped employer text is AGRICULTURE. FARMER is a separate title key if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the sector word. Grower legal names sit in other rows if stored separately. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed AGRICULTURE?

The rollup counts 493 donors and 16,590 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count to about 34 lines per person. This is not an employment census of the farm sector. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.