Missouri Department Of Agriculture

The Missouri Department of Agriculture (operating as Department of Agriculture Missouri), a U.S. state government entity and child division of the State of Missouri, serves as a federal grant and contract recipient providing animal health laboratory testing, disease surveillance, meat and poultry inspection, and agricultural regulatory services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and related federal agencies. The Department operates as a prime recipient across 324 awards (100% prime, no sub-awards) with no SBA set-asides, competing in full-and-open federal grant and contract vehicles.

The Department's federal footprint centers on animal health diagnostics and regulatory inspection. It operates the Missouri Feed Control Laboratory, analyzing approximately 3,000 surveillance animal food samples annually for federal feed safety compliance and inspecting animal food manufacturing facilities statewide under the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards. The Division of Animal Health conducts disease surveillance, traceability, and response activities for cattle, swine, poultry, and cervids; operates as a Level 2 participant in the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) providing highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) testing and foreign animal disease diagnostics; and administers the state's intrastate meat and poultry inspection program under federal "at least equal to" standards. Representative work includes a $724,284 definitive contract from the Food and Drug Administration for Missouri animal food inspections (awarded September 2026, running through March 2032); a $3.734 million cooperative agreement from USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service for intrastate meat and poultry inspection (CFDA 10.475, October 2025–September 2026); a $290,919 APHIS cooperative agreement for animal health surveillance and preparedness (CFDA 10.025, April 2026–March 2027); and a $126,038 emergency cooperative agreement for HPAI outbreak response in Missouri (January–December 2026).

Customer concentration is dominated by USDA agencies. The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and its subdivisions account for 180 awards with $40.4 million combined potential value, representing the vast majority of recent activity. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service follows with 30 awards, the Food and Nutrition Service with 26 awards (primarily formula grants for WIC and senior farmers market nutrition programs), and the Food Safety and Inspection Service with 17 awards. The Environmental Protection Agency placed 11 awards, primarily for pesticide regulation and water quality monitoring. The Department also receives smaller amounts from the FDA and Department of Health and Human Services.

The Department places task orders against an APHIS indefinite delivery contract (12639521D0071) for animal lab testing services, accounting for 9 task orders with $413 thousand combined potential value. Additional vehicles include blanket purchase agreements with APHIS for HPAI testing, avian testing, and related laboratory services. Recent grant activity reflects recurring cooperative agreements under CFDA 10.025 (Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care) for pest surveys—including thousand cankers disease/walnut twig beetle, karnal bunt, plum pox virus, and forest pest monitoring—as well as block grants under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (CFDA 10.170) for specialty crop competitiveness, running through multi-year cycles.

Activity has remained flat to declining: 18 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 19 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 10 awards so far in 2026 (snapshot through late September). The combined potential value of $45.3 million is offset by obligated dollars of $111.3 million (246% of potential value), reflecting the recurring nature of grant and cooperative agreement funding where annual renewals and multi-year awards are standard. Awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months total 14 with combined potential value of $2 thousand, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure for the core grant portfolio; however, the APHIS cooperative agreements and grant vehicles renew annually, so operational continuity depends on recurring competitive award of successor funding.

The Department's capability portfolio, grounded in award history, centers on animal health diagnostics, disease surveillance and response, meat and poultry inspection, agricultural commodity marketing data collection, and regulatory compliance for feed and pesticide safety. All work is performed in Missouri with administrative oversight and operations at the Department's Jefferson City facilities. No subsidiaries or corporate structure beyond the parent State of Missouri is present in the source material.