Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative

Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative, doing business as F.b.a.c., manufactures high-protein, high-fat carnivore feed for federal wildlife research and management programs as a prime contractor under open-market, full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designation. The cooperative is a small agricultural cooperative and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Sandy, Utah, specializing in freshly ground meat and customized nutritional products for carnivorous animals.

F.b.a.c.'s customer footprint is narrowly concentrated within the Department of Agriculture. The top four USDA components account for 96% of combined potential value across all awards: APHIS Wildlife Services (18 awards, $276 thousand combined potential value), APHIS general operations (5 awards, $193 thousand combined potential value), APHIS Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services (1 award, $17 thousand combined potential value), and Farm Service Agency Utah State Office (1 award, $6 thousand combined potential value). APHIS Wildlife Services alone anchors the relationship, driving both volume and dollars. Representative work includes a $21.6 thousand delivery order from APHIS awarded in March 2026 for mink food with completion in February 2027, a $21.2 thousand delivery order from APHIS awarded in March 2025 for mink food under a one-year ordering period, and a $17.355 thousand delivery order from Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services in March 2024 for carnivore food materials with completion in July 2026.

F.b.a.c. holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with APHIS. The primary vehicle is a $110 thousand single-award IDC running from March 2025 through February 2028, which has generated 7 task orders worth $104 thousand combined potential value. An earlier $100 thousand IDC (ultimate completion February 2025 in the source, extended to February 2030 in the most recent award summary) generated 2 task orders worth $43 thousand combined potential value. Both IDCs authorize multiple ordering periods for specialized carnivore feed products supplying the APHIS National Wildlife Research Center's Utah Field Station, where F.b.a.c. has maintained an exclusive working relationship since 2005.

Activity remains steady but modest — five awards across the past five years (2022 through 2026), with only one award reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months ($22 thousand combined potential value exposure). Across 30 total awards in the source data spanning from 2007 to March 2026, F.b.a.c. has obligated $298 thousand of its $514 thousand combined potential value (58%), indicating consistent invoicing against task orders. The cooperative competes only as a prime contractor (100% of awards) and does not subcontract to other federal primes. Work is performed at the Sandy, Utah facility, where F.b.a.c. manufactures the animal feed in-house for APHIS and Wildlife Services operations.