The Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a Purchase Order to Sheryl R. Gray, doing business as Agricultural Consulting, on September 18, 2026, valued at $6,780.00 for local data collection services under a Total Small Business set-aside. Work is performed in Madera, California and covers 166 segments containing 400 data collection points across 12 counties in California's Central Valley and Central Sierra regions: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Nevada, Placer, and Sacramento. The contractor must complete data collection and submit results to the Local Data Collection Instrument server by December 31, 2026, with final invoicing due by January 30, 2027. The order runs through March 31, 2027. Payment is firm fixed price on a per-unit basis. The originating solicitation, posted September 9, 2026 with a September 15, 2026 deadline, required minimum qualifications including a Bachelor's degree in Soil Science, Crop Science, or Agronomy and at least two years of NRI Local Data Collection experience in the project counties.