AGRICULTURE

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.

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.