Missouri Department Of Agriculture

The Missouri Department of Agriculture, operating as a division of the State of Missouri, provides animal health laboratory testing, avian influenza surveillance, meat and poultry inspection, plant pest monitoring, and agricultural commodity regulatory oversight to federal agencies as a prime recipient of federal contracts and cooperative agreements. The Department operates as a U.S. state government entity with no subcontracting footprint — all 320 recent awards are prime receipts.

Missouri Agriculture's customer base concentrates heavily with the USDA. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) accounts for 171 of the 255 awards visible in the top-customer slice (covering 80% of awards), anchored by a $20 million single-award indefinite delivery contract for animal laboratory testing services running through August 2026. APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services carries $40.1 million in combined potential value across seven awards — the largest single customer segment — while the Food and Nutrition Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Food Safety and Inspection Service round out the USDA presence. The Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration contributes seven awards worth $3.6 million combined potential value for animal food manufacturing facility inspections under the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards. The Environmental Protection Agency funds pesticide enforcement and applicator certification and training at approximately $225 thousand annually.

Concrete capability work includes delivery orders for avian influenza testing under the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, firm-fixed price task orders averaging $25,000 to $50,000 for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) diagnostic testing with APHIS Veterinary Services, and a $1.022 million definitive contract with the FDA for compliance inspections of animal food manufacturing facilities within Missouri. The Department operates the Missouri Feed Control Laboratory, which analyzes approximately 3,000 surveillance animal food samples annually for compliance with federal feed safety standards. The Department also serves as a cooperative agreement recipient under USDA FSIS for intrastate meat and poultry inspection (worth $3.734 million for FY2026), providing ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of intrastate processing under federal "at least equal to" standards, and receives recurring formula grants from the USDA Food Distribution Division for the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program. Additional grant recipients work includes plant pest surveys (Karnal bunt, plum pox virus, thousand cankers disease, forest pests, grapes) conducted under APHIS cooperative agreements supporting the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, animal disease traceability outreach and RFID tag distribution to livestock producers and accredited veterinarians, and emergency response funding for highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak response (a $439,998 cooperative agreement awarded December 2024 for Colorado HPAI response, and a $126,038 agreement for Missouri's January 2026 outbreak response). The Department also manages the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program as a recipient, distributing sub-awards to projects addressing sweet potatoes, grapes, hazelnuts, leafy greens, and other specialty crops.

Award activity has remained stable at 18 to 20 awards per year across 2022–2025, with only six awards recorded in 2026 to date. Eighteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of approximately $1 million, representing modest recompete exposure. The Department's obligated dollars ($109.8 million across all awards) exceed combined potential value ($44.5 million) by 247 percent, a signal that actual billings and multi-year funding have substantially exceeded current-year ceiling estimates on many cooperative agreements and indefinite delivery contracts. The Department's award footprint is categorized predominantly under "All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services" (NAICS) and "Support — Professional: Veterinary/Animal Care" (PSC), with secondary coding in testing laboratories, inspection and licensing, and program management support roles. The Department reports no set-aside designations across its federal awards — all work is awarded full-and-open.