Millstone Mills, Inc.

Millstone Mills, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in La Porte, Indiana, manufactures and supplies corn-based food commodities—whole grain blue cornmeal, degermed yellow cornmeal, white and yellow corn grits, and cornmeal in bulk 25-kilogram bags—to the Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under firm fixed-price definitive contracts for domestic and international food assistance programs. The company competes predominantly full-and-open, though it qualifies as a small business and appears on partial small business set-asides and total small business set-asides in a minority of awards.

Millstone Mills' customer footprint is entirely within the Department of Agriculture, concentrated in four sub-agencies. The Food and Nutrition Service is the dominant customer, accounting for 53 of the vendor's 119 prime awards (76% award coverage) and $15.7 million of the combined $20.4 million potential value across all awards. The Farm Service Agency's Kansas City Commodity Office follows with 29 awards valued at $1.9 million combined. The Foreign Agricultural Service holds 7 awards ($496 thousand combined potential value) supporting international food donations, and the Food for Progress program accounts for 1 award ($110 thousand). Awards range from $44 thousand to $1.7 million, with recent high-value examples including a $1.56 million contract (May 2025) for white and yellow corn grits, a $1.4 million contract (November 2024) for mixed cornmeal and corn grits products, and a $818 thousand contract (December 2025) for whole grain blue cornmeal, degermed yellow cornmeal, and corn grits. All recent work—including three awards in 2026 ($63 thousand, $120 thousand, $292 thousand)—remains under USDA auspices.

The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint across the 119 awards in the source. Activity has been episodic: four awards in 2023, eight in 2024, two in 2025, and four awarded in the first half of 2026. Across all work, the vendor's NAICS profile is 311211 (Flour Milling) for 118 awards and 311320 (Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers) for one award; PSC coding uniformly reflects 8945 (Bakery and Cereal Products). Three awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $475 thousand, representing a modest recompete window. Millstone Mills has held continuous federal vendor status since 2004 and has delivered $20.4 million in obligated potential value across the award period, positioning it as an established USDA commodity supplier for food assistance programs.