RANCHER

Why Rancher and 2014 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like strings that appear often enough to form buckets. Rancher is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2014 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $1,079,485 — a cell, not a verdict on ranching as a class. Named-company keys such as a specific feedlot or brand are stored separately.

The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $30,569,216. The 2014 slice is about 3.5% of that stack. A midterm cell that is a small fraction of a large occupation bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2014 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the Rancher filter.

What the Rancher string captures

Donors type titles. Some write rancher, some write rancher/farmer, some write a ranch name as employer. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy. People who listed a company name instead of the title land in employer groupings, not here. Mixing this page with a named agribusiness join would double-count or mis-attribute dollars.

396 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one state’s operators. A filer who listed both a title and a ranch name may still land in only one rollup on this site.

Treat $30,569,216 as the denominator for the 3.5% share. Neighboring occupation strings such as Farmer, if they exist as keys, are separate pages. This join does not rank them.

Questions

How much did Rancher-labeled donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,079,485 in itemized individual contributions for the Rancher grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 1,165 contributions and 396 donors. The label is a self-reported title bucket, not a USDA census.

Are these 396 donors at one ranch?

No. Rancher is an occupation-style grouping built from FEC text. The 396 donors are contributor identities that matched that string, not a headcount at a single operation.

What share of the Rancher total is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $30,569,216. $1,079,485 divided by that figure is about 3.5%. Other cycles make up the remainder.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Rancher 2014 for the table, Rancher for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.