Farmer political contributions from Minnesota

Why FARMER and Minnesota are joined

The occupation hub for FARMER ($66,637,048) mixes every contributor state. The Minnesota hub mixes every occupation attributed to MN addresses. Neither page answers how much of the farmer label is Minnesota money. The intersection does: $7,447,377 from 1,033 donors and 16,567 receipts. That is about 11% of occupation dollars, about 9% of 189,146 contributions, and about 7% of 14,343 donors.

Dollar share a bit above donor share means Minnesota’s FARMER receipts run slightly larger, on average, than the national occupation mix, without approaching the extreme concentration seen in rare titles with a handful of filers. $7,447,377 divided by 16,567 contributions is about $449 per itemized gift in this join.

The FARMER occupation across states

Filers writing FARMER reported $66,637,048 in 189,146 itemized contributions from 14,343 donors. The label is common and geographically spread; most of the money sits outside Minnesota ($66,637,048 minus $7,447,377). Related strings — ranching titles, farm owner, agriculture, retired farmer — are not included. They appear as separate rows in the occupations index.

Fourteen thousand donors and 189,146 gifts imply extensive repeat giving. FEC itemization over multiple committees and reporting periods produces that shape. The aggregate does not say which commodities people raise or whether they filed as individuals versus through a farm name in the contributor field.

Minnesota’s FARMER receipts

One thousand thirty-three Minnesota donors produced 16,567 FARMER-tagged contributions totaling $7,447,377. That is a broad donor base for a single occupation–state cell, closer to a common job word than to a boutique title. The Minnesota campaign-finance page shows how this line sits next to other MN occupations; FARMER is one of many strings, not a stand-in for the state’s entire rural economy.

Contributor state is the address on the receipt. Border farms, seasonal addresses, and mailing addresses can place a donor in Minnesota or in a neighboring state regardless of where the acreage sits. The join follows the FEC field, not a map of farmland.

Federal individual contributions are also not a substitute for Minnesota’s own campaign-finance reports, USDA program payments, or checkoff assessments. Those systems use different filers, thresholds, and identifiers. The $7,447,377 should not be added to them. If a research question is “how much did Minnesota farmers give in federal itemized gifts under this exact occupation word,” this page is the answer. Broader questions need more tables.

What the table is not

These dollars are federal individual contributions, not USDA payments, not commodity-checkoff assessments, and not Minnesota state campaign filings. The join does not show that farm policy caused the gifts or that the money funded agriculture committees. Recipient identity is outside this two-column filter.

Occupation is un-audited text. Someone who farms and also lists another job may never appear here. Someone who listed FARMER years ago may still be in the donor key if the aggregate spans their receipts. Use the $7,447,377 as a labeled total, then open receipts for committee and date detail.

Related records

See Farmer donations for the $66,637,048 national total, Minnesota campaign finance for all MN occupations, the occupations index for agricultural variants, and all FEC ties for other occupation–state joins. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Agricultural titles that this join leaves out

Minnesota’s $7,447,377 under FARMER is not a farm-sector total. Rancher, farm owner, agriculture, and retired farmer — if those strings exist in the occupation index — sit elsewhere. A donor who listed FARMER on some receipts and owner on others is only partly in this cell. The 1,033 Minnesota donor keys are unique inside FARMER × MN, not unique across agricultural language.

North Dakota’s FARMER join uses the same $66,637,048 national denominator and a smaller dollar cell ($5,463,328 from 843 donors). The two states share a commodity region in ordinary speech; they do not share a row in this table. Each join follows contributor state as filed. Border addresses can put a farm on the other side of the line from the acreage. The FEC field wins.

Questions

How much have Minnesota farmers given in FEC individual contributions?

Donors listing occupation FARMER with a Minnesota address reported $7,447,377, from 1,033 donors and 16,567 itemized contributions. That is about 11% of the $66,637,048 recorded nationally under FARMER. The join is not a census of Minnesota farms or a total of state-level political giving.

Does this include ranchers or farm owners?

Only if they used the exact occupation string FARMER. Nationally that string is $66,637,048 from 14,343 donors and 189,146 contributions. Rancher and other agricultural titles are separate occupation pages. This Minnesota join ($7,447,377 from 1,033 donors) does not add those buckets or recode commodities.

Why is Minnesota’s dollar share higher than its donor share?

Minnesota is about 11% of FARMER dollars ($7,447,377 of $66,637,048) but about 7% of donors (1,033 of 14,343) and about 9% of contributions (16,567 of 189,146). Average itemized gift in the join is about $449. Slightly larger typical receipts lift the dollar share relative to headcount without implying a handful of donors own the state total.

Are these contributions to Minnesota candidates?

The filter is donor state plus occupation, not recipient office or state. A Minnesota-addressed FARMER can give to any FEC-registered committee. Mapping the $7,447,377 to Minnesota races requires committee-level receipts, which this occupation–state join does not include.