Kansas Department Of Agriculture

Kansas Department Of Agriculture, a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Manhattan, Kansas, acts as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards) across a portfolio of 332 cooperative agreements and project grants spanning food safety inspection, animal disease surveillance, emergency response, and agricultural market development. The department delivers federal-funded regulatory and technical services to USDA, FDA, FEMA, and EPA programs with no subcontracting footprint; it is a child agency under the State Of Kansas Office Of Accounts And Reports.

The department's capability portfolio centers on on-site food and animal product inspection, disease surveillance and emergency response, environmental compliance, and agricultural market information services. Representative work includes a $676 thousand FDA definitive contract for human food inspections in Kansas (completion March 2027), a $705 thousand FDA contract for animal food facility compliance inspections running through January 2027, a $3.658 million USDA cooperative agreement to operate Kansas's intrastate meat and poultry inspection program (October 2025 through September 2026), and a $1.975 million Bureau of Reclamation project grant to advance the Kansas Water Right Transition Assistance Program in western Kansas (completion June 2027). Food safety work also includes laboratory accreditation and testing capacity development under FDA cooperative agreements worth $917 thousand and $272 thousand, both running through mid-2028 to mid-2030.

Customer concentration is dominated by USDA agencies. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) funds 126 awards, and the Agricultural Marketing Service funds 40 awards, together representing the bulk of the active portfolio. The FDA anchors $6.1 million in combined potential value across 22 awards covering food and dairy safety programs. FEMA funds 50 awards (28 under the Cooperating Technical Partners program for flood risk mapping and community floodplain assistance, and 22 under general FEMA programs for dam safety, emergency management, and disaster response). The EPA and Department of Health and Human Services round out the customer base.

APHIS cooperative agreements dominate in both count and activity volume. The department maintains recurring annual awards for animal disease surveillance, traceability infrastructure, emergency preparedness exercises, and pest monitoring across multiple species—poultry, cattle, swine, cervids, and sheep. Recent examples include $154 thousand for avian influenza and livestock disease surveillance (April 2026 through March 2027), $244 thousand for animal disease traceability and electronic identification deployment (April 2026 through March 2027), $100 thousand for swine health program support (April 2026 through March 2027), and cooperative agreements for specialized projects such as chronic wasting disease management in farmed cervids and Secure Food Supply plan development workshops. Agricultural Marketing Service grants fund specialty crop competitiveness initiatives (block grants of $324 thousand and $331 thousand, both with multi-year completions), local food purchase assistance, and market information compilation under a long-standing cooperative agreement running through September 2026.

FEMA's Cooperating Technical Partners program represents the department's largest single awards: an $8.48 million cooperative agreement for flood hazard mapping and risk assessment services (awarded September 2022, no completion date specified in source), a $5.207 million CTP award (September 2023, no completion specified), and a $4.276 million award (September 2024, completion September 2028). These anchor the department's emergency management and infrastructure resilience work. Dam safety and community flood assistance project grants total roughly $2.6 million cumulatively across multiple tranches (FY 2022 through FY 2025).

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—16 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 17 in 2024, and 17 in 2025—with 22 awards (combined potential value $1.4 million) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. The portfolio carries a 3,421% ratio of obligated dollars to combined potential value, reflecting that many cooperative agreements carry small nominal ceiling values while annual appropriations and actual obligations flow through multiple tranches over years of performance.