Department Of Agriculture Food & Forestry Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food & Forestry, doing business as Odaff, is a U.S. state government agency operating as a prime recipient of federal grants across agriculture, forestry, and food safety programs. Odaff acts exclusively as a grant recipient—not a federal contractor—delivering regulatory, operational, and conservation services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Forest Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Odaff's federal grant footprint centers on three capability domains: plant and animal disease detection and surveillance; forest health, wildfire mitigation, and landscape restoration; and food safety inspection and marketing standards. On the disease and surveillance side, Odaff conducts pest detection surveys across Oklahoma for invasive species including imported fire ants, cotton seed bugs, karnal bunt, vascular streak dieback, box tree moth, and forest pests, along with animal health surveillance for bovine tuberculosis, avian influenza, chronic wasting disease in cervids, and swine diseases. Representative awards include cooperative agreements from APHIS for plant pathogen detection (Phytophthora ramorum detection, $138 thousand through December 2025), imported fire ant surveillance (multiple awards through 2026), and animal disease traceability supporting livestock markets and RFID tag distribution across Oklahoma (two agreements totaling $602 thousand through March 2027). On the forestry side, Odaff manages large multi-year landscape-scale restoration and wildfire mitigation grants from the USDA Forest Service. Recent major awards include a $3.683 million Cooperative Forestry Assistance grant (through August 2029) supporting hazardous fuels reduction and invasive species mitigation; a $6.317 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant (through September 2029) for community protection planning; a $3 million Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration award (through December 2029) providing cost-sharing and technical assistance to private forest landowners; and a $251.756 million Forest Health Protection award (through September 2030) for detecting and eradicating invasive forest insects, diseases, and plants. On food safety, Odaff operates statewide meat and poultry inspection programs funded through multiple FSIS cooperative agreements totaling approximately $3.244 million annually (CFDA 10.477), voluntary grading services for poultry and shell eggs (CFDA 10.162, $956 thousand through September 2026), and meat grading services (CFDA 10.162). Additionally, Odaff administers pesticide regulatory and enforcement programs under EPA Region 6 funding ($1.015 million through September 2026, CFDA 66.700), with sub-recipients Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service and the University of Oklahoma supporting applicator training and field compliance software.

The customer concentration reflects Odaff's role as the state-level agricultural agency partnering with federal land management and food safety authorities. APHIS accounts for 175 of 486 awards across cooperative agreements for disease surveillance, animal health technical services, and pest detection infrastructure coordination. The USDA Forest Service R8-Southern Region administers 69 awards spanning forestry assistance, wildfire mitigation, forest legacy programs, and landscape restoration. The Agricultural Marketing Service manages 44 awards for specialty crop promotion, grading services, and local food purchase assistance. The Food Safety and Inspection Service funds 30 awards for intrastate meat and poultry inspection program operations. Across these five top customers, 72% of recent awards concentrate grant-funded state regulatory and operational capacity. The top-customers-by-potential-value ranking surfaces smaller awards to the FDA ($1.1 million across ten awards, primarily contract vehicles for facilities or administrative services at the Oklahoma City address) and occasional military installations, but the bulk of Odaff's federal footprint and dollar value sits with USDA agencies.

Activity has remained stable at approximately 29 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with 11 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Thirteen awards face ultimate completion within the next 24 months, creating recompete opportunity in the 2026–2027 window. The combined potential value across all awards (prime and sub, 486 total) stands at $1.7 million, though obligated dollars ($198.7 million) vastly exceed stated potential values, reflecting the nature of cooperative agreements where actual annual spending and multi-year allocations flow from federal partners rather than fixed ceiling amounts at award. No subcontracting activity appears in the source; all 486 awards are prime grants to Odaff as the state recipient, with sub-awards managed by Odaff to university partners and industry stakeholders (Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma Boll Weevil Commission) but not tracked separately in the source as sub-recipient grants. The agency operates from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with place of performance consistently listed as Oklahoma City and subordinate field operations across the state's counties, markets, nurseries, and public lands.