Agriculture grouping and the 2010 FEC cycle

Agriculture as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — AGRICULTURE and 2010 — sum to $195,636. 300 itemized contributions and 109 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Agriculture hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Agriculture is self-reported industry or occupation text, not a verified payroll file. 109 donors and 300 lines in 2010 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. FARMER, FARMING, AGRIBUSINESS, and named farm employers are other keys. This page is the exact string AGRICULTURE.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $5,317,336 (all cycles for this string) as the 2010 story, and does not treat the 2010 cycle hub as a Agriculture-only list. Two filters, one cell: $195,636. 2010 is a midterm even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

3.7% of the Agriculture roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,317,336. The 2010 slice of $195,636 is about 3.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.3% ($5,121,700). Treating 2010 as the entire Agriculture FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $5,317,336 as the denominator for the 3.7% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $5,317,336. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

300 contributions from 109 donors

Dividing $195,636 by 300 contributions yields about $652 per itemized gift. Dividing by 109 donors yields about $1,795 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim.

109 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Agriculture 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Agriculture is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open 2010 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Agriculture to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $195,636 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 300 contributions, the 109 unique donors, and the 3.7% share of $5,317,336.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $195,636. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is self-reported industry or occupation text, not an agriculture PAC, not a USDA outlay total, and not a farm NAICS roll-up.

Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 109 donors, and 300 contributions. FARMER, FARMING, AGRIBUSINESS, and named farm employers are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing Agriculture and 2010 together

Start with $195,636, then Agriculture 2010 for rows, then Agriculture or 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: AGRICULTURE, 2010, $195,636, 300 contributions, 109 donors, 3.7% of $5,317,336, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.7% share, the 109-donor count, and the $652 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 300 itemized contributions totaling $195,636 average about $652 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Agriculture donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $195,636 in itemized individual contributions for the Agriculture grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 300 contributions and 109 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,317,336 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Agriculture FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,317,336. The 2010 cell of $195,636 is about 3.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.3% ($5,121,700) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only people currently working in agriculture under this exact word?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string AGRICULTURE. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2010 only, totaling $195,636 from 109 donors across 300 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Agriculture 2010 join?

Open Agriculture 2010 for the cycle overlay, Agriculture for the grouping hub, and 2010 election cycle for the year without this occupation filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $195,636, 300 contributions, and 109 donors.