What farming donors give in federal races

A gerund title under $4.8M

$4,787,651 is the occupation-level dollar total. 13,400 is the itemization count. 1,037 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $357 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,617 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 13 itemizations per donor record.

1,037 donor records is a mid-size pool. Thirteen itemizations per donor record is moderate repeat. The per-line mean of about $357 sits above typical support-staff keys in this harvest band. Those means are arithmetic, not medians.

The packet has no gift-size distribution, no crop-versus-livestock flag, and no party split. FARMING as occupation is not the same unit as an agriculture industry page.

Farming is not farmer and not rancher

FARMER, RANCHER, and AGRICULTURE — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to FARMING. This page cites only $4,787,651, 13,400 contributions, and 1,037 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no USDA producer check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals FARMING after indexing.

What 1,037 donor records can and cannot show

1,037 donor records used FARMING on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of working farmers. Retired operators, landlords who typed FARMING, and forms filled with a spouse’s occupation can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed FARMING on some gifts and FARMER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 13-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,037 unique people each gave 13 times.

Do not add occupation FARMING to industry agriculture

Industry pages group employer-side categories. Adding $4,787,651 to an agriculture industry total mixes an occupation gerund with employer categories and double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the FARMING occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to FARMER and RANCHER. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $4,787,651.

How to cite FARMING as FEC occupation text

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: FARMING itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $4,787,651 on 13,400 contributions from 1,037 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money and that FARMING is gerund free text. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party or commodity. Recipient committees are a different join. Compact millions ($4.8M) are the same headline amount as $4,787,651, rounded to one decimal place.

FARMING as a gerund occupation string

FARMING in this extract is $4,787,651 on 13,400 itemizations from 1,037 donor records, or $4.8M in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $357 per contribution and about $4,617 per donor record, with roughly 13 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. FARMER and RANCHER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to FARMING. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $4,787,651. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals FARMING, dollars equal $4,787,651, contributions equal 13,400, donors equal 1,037. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of FARMING. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have farming donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list FARMING as occupation sum to $4,787,651, or $4.8M, across 13,400 contributions and 1,037 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. FARMING is a gerund occupation string, not an industry total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are farmers included in FARMING?

Only if they typed FARMING. FARMER is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers FARMING: $4,787,651, 13,400 contributions, and 1,037 donors. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Is this the same as agriculture industry money?

No. Industry pages group employers. This page covers occupation equals FARMING: $4,787,651, 13,400 contributions, and 1,037 donors. Adding those two filters would double-count overlapping itemizations. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Where do I review individual farming occupation gifts?

The FARMING occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $4,787,651. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.