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FARMER

Total Donated

$66,637,048

Contributions

189,146

Unique Donors

14,343

Donors who listed FARMER as occupation posted $66,637,048 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those dollars sit on 189,146 contributions from 14,343 donor records. FARMER is the occupation text on Form 3 and Form 3X schedules, not a USDA farm-operator census and not an agriculture-PAC spending total. In compact form that dollar total is $66.6 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.

Key figures

  • FARMER occupation itemizations sum to $66,637,048 from 189,146 contributions and 14,343 donors.
  • Mean amounts are about $352 per contribution and about $4,646 per donor record.
  • The string is self-reported job text, not a USDA farm-operator match.
  • Agriculture industry pages and farm PACs are different FEC cuts and are not this total.

A wide rural title with mid-size means

14,343 donor records make FARMER a broader pool than several finance titles with similar dollars. $66,637,048 across that pool averages about $4,646 per donor record. Across 189,146 itemizations the mean is about $352 per contribution. About 13 contributions per donor is the repeat rate.

Rancher, grower, and agribusiness owner are other strings if donors used those words. This page is FARMER only: $66,637,048, 189,146 contributions, 14,343 donors.

The occupation box does not encode acreage, crop, livestock, or whether the operation is a hobby farm or a commercial enterprise.

Self-reporting, not a program enrollment file

The FEC does not match occupation to FSA or crop-insurance records. Retired farmers, farm spouses who typed FARMER, and landlord-operators may all appear. Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word.

A farm operator who wrote OWNER or BUSINESS OWNER instead will appear on those pages. Occupation is per itemization, so mixed titles split dollars across keys.

Full analysis: FARMER occupation giving in FEC itemizations →

Questions

How much have FARMER donors given in FEC records?
Occupation FARMER is attached to $66,637,048 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 189,146 contributions and 14,343 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a USDA operator census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.
Does FARMER include ranchers?
Only if they typed FARMER. Donors who wrote rancher are in another string unless that text normalized to FARMER. This page’s $66,637,048 is the FARMER match only. The matching contribution count is 189,146 and the matching donor-record count is 14,343. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.
Is this agriculture PAC spending?
No. These facts are contributor occupation totals on itemized receipts. PAC and party committee spending are other FEC categories and are not in this packet. The matching contribution count is 189,146 and the matching donor-record count is 14,343. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.
What is the average FARMER contribution?
$66,637,048 divided by 189,146 itemizations is about $352 per contribution. Divided by 14,343 donors, the mean is about $4,646 per donor record. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.

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