Farm & Home Service Inc.

Farm & Home Service Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Sykesville, Maryland, supplies agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, seeds, and animal feed to federal research facilities as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The company operates exclusively as a prime, with zero subcontract work in its recent federal footprint, and competes predominantly under small business set-asides on purchase orders issued by the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

Farm & Home Service's customer concentration is extreme: the USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area accounts for 49 of 63 awards (78%) and $1.2 million of $1.5 million combined potential value. Secondary customers include the Smithsonian Institution (4 awards, $61 thousand), the Department of the Army (3 awards, $43 thousand), and two other USDA ARS sub-offices (4 awards combined, $86 thousand). This 95% concentration on a single customer sub-office within USDA reflects Farm & Home's embedded role as a regional agricultural supplier to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and associated USDA field stations in the Northeast Area.

Work is commodity-driven. Top NAICS categories are Fertilizer Mixing Only Manufacturing (19 awards) and Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (13 awards), with PSC concentration on Fertilizers (25 awards), Chemicals (10 awards), and Forage and Feed (10 awards). Representative recent awards include a June 2026 purchase order for restricted-use herbicides (Gramoxone SL, Roundup Power Max, Radar 2,4-D ester, Enlist Duo, surfactants, and nitrogen solutions) valued at $26,915.45 for the 2026 farming season; an April 2025 purchase order for restricted-use herbicides (Gramoxone SL, Lexar EZ, Simazine 90DF, Trivence, Enlist Duo) valued at $29,996.10 for the 2025 farming season; an April 2024 purchase order for granular fertilizers valued at $11,776.50; and a September 2023 purchase order for soft red winter wheat seed, triticale seed for forage, and rye seed for cover crop valued at $23,049.60. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with typical completion windows of four to six months.

Activity has contracted significantly. The vendor received three awards in 2022, three in 2023, then one each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — a trajectory that suggests either reduced USDA Northeast Area purchasing or displacement by competitors. Combined potential value across 63 awards totals $1.5 million, with $1.4 million (97%) obligated. The vendor has no current multi-year contracts, IDIQs, or parent vehicles; all work flows through spot purchase orders. Farm & Home Service has served federal customers since at least 2003 but operates at sub-million-dollar annual revenue scale on the federal side, with no sub-contracting partnerships or expansion into non-agricultural commodity markets.