New Age Custom Farming, LLC

New Age Custom Farming, LLC, a Wisconsin-based small business limited liability company, provides machine-based crop harvesting, chopping, and storage services to the USDA Agricultural Research Service Midwest Area as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, operating exclusively from its Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin headquarters at the USDA-Dairy Forage Research Farm. Established in 2006 and registered in SAM.gov since that year, the company specializes in alfalfa and corn silage harvesting operations across 160 to 1,550 acres per engagement, with services including mowing, chopping, merging, bagging, and storage harvesting. The company competes predominantly as a set-aside prime — 97% of its awards derive from the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Midwest Area, with a single outlier award from the parent ARS agency.

New Age Custom Farming holds two active Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts with USDA ARS Midwest Area. The first, awarded August 15, 2023, carries a ceiling of $477,500 over five years (through August 14, 2028) for corn silage chopping, storage, and cover crop harvesting services under a total small business set-aside; against this vehicle, ARS has issued 18 task orders totaling $574 thousand in combined potential value, including a $33,105 delivery order in August 2023 and a $42,005 Option Year 1 order through October 2025. The second IDIQ, a $598,950 single-award contract also designated total small business set-aside, covers alfalfa mowing, chopping, merging, bagging, and storage services through April 30, 2031, with a one-year base period and four option years, and has generated four task orders totaling $257 thousand. Recent representative work includes a $758,587.50 purchase order awarded May 1, 2026, for approximately 1,550 acres of alfalfa across four annual cuttings through April 2031 with a potential six-month extension, and a $86,269 delivery order issued September 23, 2026, for corn silage chopping and cover crop harvesting across 160 to 400 acres through June 30, 2027.

Activity has decelerated markedly — five awards in 2022 declining to two through September 2026 — with only one award (the September 2026 $86,269 delivery order) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's customer footprint is severely concentrated: 97% of awards and 100% of combined potential value funnel through USDA ARS Midwest Area, reflecting a single-customer, single-location operating model. Combined potential value across 35 prime awards stands at $3 million, with $1.3 million (44% of potential) obligated to date. Primary NAICS categories are 115113 (Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine) across 26 awards and 115112 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) across 5 awards, with PSC codes concentrated in Natural Resources/Conservation commodity areas.