Farmers Union Industries, LLC

Farmers Union Industries, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, delivers bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance sampling and animal health disposal services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor, alongside grease trap pumping and facility maintenance services to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards) under full-and-open competition with no set-aside designations, competing on established performance relationships rather than small-business or disadvantaged-status vehicles.

Farmers Union Industries' customer concentration is asymmetric and driven by dollar value rather than award count. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service dominates the potential-value ranking, with three organizational units—Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services, the primary APHIS entity, plus Veterinary Services and the parent APHIS bureau—holding combined 34 awards valued at $7.66 million (97% of the vendor's combined potential value). The Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Sandstone accounts for 36 awards but only $162 thousand in combined potential value, reflecting the $5,000 recurring purchase-order structure for grease trap pumping (approximately 20,000 gallons per service, performed quarterly since at least 2021). The divergence between award count and dollar share signals a two-tier capability portfolio: high-value animal health surveillance work anchored to USDA, and low-value facility maintenance work at a single BOP facility.

The vendor's primary contract vehicle is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 12639522D0082) valued at $2.396 million, awarded by APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services on September 15, 2022, running through August 31, 2027, for BSE sample collection, dead animal disposal, and fallen stock collection services. Six task orders have been issued against this IDC to date, totaling $419 thousand in combined potential value. The vendor also performs work under three other APHIS Blanket Purchase Agreements and one additional IDC (12639518D0010), collectively generating 27 task orders. Grease trap pumping work flows through direct purchase orders to FCI Sandstone with no parent vehicle.

Representative capability examples include a $110 thousand delivery order (awarded December 1, 2025) for BSE sampling services under the primary APHIS IDC; a $84 thousand delivery order (awarded November 27, 2023) for BSE sample collection across Farmers Union member cattle populations; a $25 thousand delivery order (awarded May 10, 2023) for dead animal disposal and fallen stock collection; and seventeen $5,000 purchase orders to FCI Sandstone (spanning October 2021 through April 2026) for grease trap pumping.

The vendor's activity trajectory shows sustained but modest volume. Awards per year have remained flat at three to four annually over the past five years, with only one award in the source's most recent slice (April 2026). Combined obligated dollars total $3.2 million against $7.9 million in combined potential value (41% obligation rate), indicating significant remaining work under existing task orders. Only one award ($110 thousand, a BSE delivery order) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, leaving minimal recompete exposure near term.

Farmers Union Industries operates primarily from its Redwood Falls, Minnesota base and uses multiple business-name registrations—Central Bi-Products, Performance Pet Products, and Midwest Grease appear across awards—all resolving to the same legal entity. The vendor's NAICS profile splits across All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (25 awards), Veterinary Services (17 awards), Meat Processed from Carcasses (13 awards), and Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing (10 awards), reflecting the animal health and disposal service mix. The vendor maintains no subcontract footprint and holds no position on government-wide acquisition contracts or agency-wide IDIQs; all work is transacted as direct awards or task orders under customer-specific vehicles.