Top 27 Contractors in NAICS 1121: Cattle Ranching and Farming, FY2024

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Rank	Contractor	Net obligations	Share	Trend
1	University of Nebraska Through Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$598,920	19.7%	Rank history: #1 in FY2023 and not on the FY2025 list; unchanged since FY2023.
2	United Dairy Inc. 2 awardees Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$404,788	13.3%	Rank history: #2 in FY2023 and #3 in FY2025; unchanged since FY2023.
3	Vaqueria Tres Monjitas Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice) VA (Department of Veterans Affairs)	$251,797	8.3%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #4 in FY2025; new.
4	Schmidt Baking Co Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$216,900	7.1%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
5	North Star Imports LLC 2 awardees Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$193,063	6.3%	Rank history: #18 in FY2023 and not on the FY2025 list; up 13 since FY2023.
6	Superior Livestock, Inc. Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$185,000	6.1%	Rank history: #5 in FY2023 and #6 in FY2025; down 1 since FY2023.
7	Ground Zero Industries Incorporated Top agencies DOI (Department of the Interior)	$149,627	4.9%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
8	Thomas D. Morris, Inc. Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$141,700	4.7%	Rank history: #16 in FY2023 and not on the FY2025 list; up 8 since FY2023.
9	Anderson Erickson Dairy Co. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$85,711	2.8%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #15 in FY2025; new.
10	Udderly Delicious LLC Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$66,860	2.2%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
11	The Texas a&M University System Through Texas A&M Agrilife Research Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$52,200	1.7%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
12	Ballou Cattle Company LLC Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$48,000	1.6%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
13	Three Lazy H Inc. Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$45,490	1.5%	Rank history: #15 in FY2023 and #9 in FY2025; up 2 since FY2023.
14	Pueblo Trading Co Inc Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$42,633	1.4%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
15	High View Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$42,101	1.4%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #12 in FY2025; new.
16	Loon Lake Family Ranch, LLC Top agencies DOI (Department of the Interior)	$41,130	1.4%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #11 in FY2025; new.
17	Loffredo Gardens, Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$32,438	1.1%	Rank history: #8 in FY2023 and not on the FY2025 list; down 9 since FY2023.
18	Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$32,373	1.1%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
19	National Food Group Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$30,025	1.0%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
20	Regents of University of Minnesota Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$29,700	1.0%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
21	Archer Farms Inc. Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$28,815	0.9%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #14 in FY2025; new.
22	Iowa State University of Science and Technology Top agencies USDA (Department of Agriculture)	$28,000	0.9%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
23	Indian Springs Working Ranch LLC Top agencies DOI (Department of the Interior)	$27,600	0.9%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
24	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Through Virginia Department Corrections Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$18,990	0.6%	Rank history: #10 in FY2023 and not on the FY2025 list; down 14 since FY2023.
25	Big Daddy Foods Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$10,380	0.3%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and not on the FY2025 list; new.
26	Advanced Commodities, Inc. Top agencies DOJ (Department of Justice)	$10,070	0.3%	Rank history: not on the FY2023 list and #16 in FY2025; new.
27	Willow Creek Land & Cattle, LLC Top agencies DOI (Department of the Interior)	$1,000	<0.1%	Rank history: #24 in FY2023 and #26 in FY2025; down 3 since FY2023.

How this ranking works

• Source: every contract action FPDS records (as published on SAM.gov) in the period, as GovTribe received it.
• Amounts are net obligations: what was obligated, less what was deobligated. Shares are of $3.04 million obligated before deobligations, so they never pass 100%.
• Parent companies: each action counts under the ultimate parent its award record names, or under the awardee when it names none, so no dollar counts twice. Parents of the same name (Inc., LLC and the like aside) count as one company, since FPDS records a company's parent under more than one UEI over time. GovTribe corrects a few parents and names by hand; see the corrections.
• Fiscal year 2024 ran Oct 1, 2023 – Sep 30, 2024. The Department of Defense reports its contract actions to FPDS about 90 days late, so a fiscal year is ranked once they're in, in February, and the list doesn't change after.
• Rank changes compare with FY2023. "New" marks a company outside that period's top 500, and "Returned" one of those that was on an earlier fiscal year's list.
• Rank lines show each company's rank on every fiscal year's list since FY2023, #1 at the top, on a scale that gives the top of the list more room. A dashed stretch spans years it wasn't on the list. The step from FY2023 takes the color of the rank change beside it.
• Placeholder recipients FPDS uses when it names no company ("Miscellaneous Foreign Contractors" and the like) aren't ranked.

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