FARMING

Farming money that is tagged 2008

$666,104 requires both filters. Farming alone is the $14,879,078 hub. 2008 alone is every other stored label in that window. The intersection is 1,014 receipts and 409 donors. Independent expenditures and committee transfers are other FEC tables and are not folded in. The total is not a corporate treasury gift.

FARMING is the exact stored label. A filer who wrote FARMER or a ranch name is a different grouping. The stored string is FARMING. FARMER, FARM, AGRICULTURE, RANCHER, and named farm businesses stay outside this total. Exact-match grouping is mechanical. It is not a judgment about which label is “correct.” Named donors are not invented on this page; 409 is an identity count from the packet.

Use Farming 2008 for the overlay, Farming for the grouping, 2008 election cycle for the year, and All FEC ties for other joins. Those four links are the map. This prose does not replace the overlay.

Share of the Farming lifetime grouping

4.5% of $14,879,078 is $666,104. The other 95.5% is $14,212,974 in other cycles. Because this packet does not list those other cycle dollars one by one, they are cited only as a remainder. Open the Farming hub to drop the year filter. Treating 2008 as the entire Farming FEC story would ignore $14,212,974.

A 4.5% cell can be larger or smaller than other even-year windows on the same hub. Without those other amounts in the packet, no year-over-year percent is stated. The lifetime total is a denominator, not a business valuation. Neighboring spellings are not added into $14,879,078 or $666,104.

Questions

How much did Farming donors contribute in 2008?

$666,104 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,014 receipts and 409 donors, for the stored grouping FARMING in the 2008 cycle. That is the two-key join, not the $14,879,078 all-cycle figure. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is the Farming 2008 total a PAC figure?

No. $666,104 is itemized individual Schedule A activity grouped to FARMING. PAC disbursements and independent expenditures are other tables. 1,014 contributions and 409 donors describe the individual-receipt cell only, not a committee total. Cite FEC.gov. FARMING in 2008 is $666,104 on 1,014 itemized receipts from 409 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $14,879,078.

Why not treat $14,879,078 as the 2008 number?

$14,879,078 includes every cycle for this string. 2008 is $666,104, about 4.5%. The remaining $14,212,974 belongs on the Farming hub under other years. This page exists so those filters stay separate and the join is not restated as a hub.

Do these Farming gifts appear in USAspending?

Not as a fact in this packet. FEC contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets under different reporting rules. $666,104 is not an obligation total and does not fund federal awards here. Keep the join on Schedule A only. Cite FEC.gov. FARMING in 2008 is $666,104 on 1,014 itemized receipts from 409 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $14,879,078.