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.

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Farming political money — 2008 cycle

On FEC.gov, the employer/industry grouping Farming and the 2008 election cycle join at $666,104. 409 donors and 1,014 itemized individual contributions produced that total. The same grouping’s stored lifetime figure is $14,879,078, so this window is about 4.5% of the book. Read the cell as a relationship between a stored string and a two-year tag, not as an agriculture NAICS total, a farm-bureau PAC, or a USDA producer file.

Key figures

Farming × 2008 equals $666,104 in itemized individual contributions.
409 donors and 1,014 receipts are the volume fields.
4.5% of $14,879,078 falls in 2008; $14,212,974 is other years.
FARMING is exact-match occupation/industry string, not an agriculture NAICS total, a farm-bureau PAC, or a USDA producer file.
Quote both dimensions; do not mix in USAspending.

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.

Arithmetic on 1,014 lines and 409 donors

$666,104 ÷ 1,014 ≈ $657 per itemized gift. $666,104 ÷ 409 ≈ $1,629 per donor. 1,014 ÷ 409 ≈ 2.5 contributions per donor. Packet quotients only. Not medians, not party splits, not typical compensation. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe for those means.

Donor identities can include people who no longer work under the label, household members, and repeat givers. This page does not invent names. 409 is the count the extract published for FARMING in 2008. Unitemized federal gifts never appear in $666,104.

2008 without turning it into a national rank

2008 is a presidential cycle on FEC.gov. The two-year window can include gifts from both calendar years. This packet has no cycle-wide dollar, so Farming is not ranked against other employers in 2008. Ranking would be a third number this file does not contain. Keep both nouns when quoting $666,104.

The cycle hub is the place to browse other strings from the same window. This tie stays on Farming. Mixing hubs without naming the filter produces a sentence that is no longer a fact from this packet. Open 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Farming to drop the year.

Scope and non-causation

Itemized individual receipts only. Unitemized gifts, PACs, and independent expenditures are out. USAspending awards are out. $666,104 does not fund federal obligations in this dataset. The page is not an agriculture NAICS total, a farm-bureau PAC, or a USDA producer file. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants.

A stored occupation/industry string plus a cycle year is a join. It is not evidence that Farming directed 2008 politics. If live pages disagree with $666,104, 1,014 contributions, or 409 donors, FEC.gov and the overlay control. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Record the Farming 2008 facts

Write: FARMING, 2008, $666,104, 1,014 contributions, 409 donors, 4.5% of $14,879,078, FEC.gov. Point to Farming 2008, Farming, 2008 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Do not add the cell to the lifetime total. Carry the $657 mean gift only with this intersection.

Leave FARMER, FARM, AGRICULTURE, RANCHER, and named farm businesses on their own pages. Leave USAspending on SpendingVault. This file is one LobbyVault industry-cycle snapshot.

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.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.