Wyoming Department Of Agriculture

Wyoming Department of Agriculture, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Cheyenne, receives federal grant and contract funding as a prime recipient to operate food safety, pesticide regulatory, and natural resource management programs within Wyoming. The agency does not compete for contracts as a small business, does not serve as a subcontractor, and operates exclusively as a prime recipient under full-and-open federal grant and contract vehicles across sixteen distinct customer agencies.

The agency's federal footprint centers on three concrete capability areas. Food safety and inspection work includes human food manufacturing and retail compliance monitoring, meat and poultry inspection operations, and country-of-origin labeling verification at retail locations. Pesticide regulatory and environmental protection programs deliver applicator training and certification, agricultural worker protection activities, water quality monitoring, endangered species habitat protection, and enforcement of EPA pesticide label requirements across Wyoming. Forest and rangeland health programs address invasive plant species management, early detection and rapid response to invasive annual grasses, wildfire recovery and restoration, and monitoring of invasive species threats to sagebrush ecosystems and forest health. Representative work includes a $243,841 definitive contract with the Food and Drug Administration for human food Wyoming state inspections running through September 2031; a $596,000 Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (CFDA 10.475) for meat and poultry inspection operations through September 2026; a $353,593 Performance Partnership Grant from EPA Region 8 (CFDA 66.605) for pesticide regulatory and enforcement activities through September 2028; and a $240,000 Project Grant from the USDA Forest Service (CFDA 10.680) for bipartisan infrastructure law invasive annual grass management through December 2027.

The Department of Agriculture dominates the customer base by award count and program scope. The Agricultural Marketing Service placed 28 awards (specialty crop block grants and country-of-origin labeling reviews), the Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region placed 17 awards (invasive species management and wildfire recovery), and the Food Safety and Inspection Service placed 10 awards (meat and poultry inspection cooperatives). The Food and Drug Administration placed 15 awards worth $838 thousand in combined potential value — the largest dollar concentration — predominantly for human food inspection contracts. Activity declined in 2025 (four awards) and 2026 (one award) relative to 2023–2024 baseline (nine and seven awards respectively), with seven awards carrying combined potential value of $186 thousand facing completion within the next twenty-four months. The agency operates recurring grant programs — annual Specialty Crop Block Grant awards, rolling EPA Performance Partnership Grants, and ongoing meat and poultry inspection cooperatives — that structure Wyoming's engagement as a sustained federal partner rather than discrete project-based work. The source data shows combined dollars obligated ($36.8 million) significantly exceed combined potential value ($886 thousand), indicating substantial historical funding relative to recent contract ceilings.