Quad County Corn Processors Cooperative

Quad County Corn Processors Cooperative, a small agricultural cooperative and self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Galva, Iowa, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on advanced biofuel production and COVID-19 relief for biofuel producers. The cooperative has no federal contract prime or subcontractor presence; all thirteen recent federal awards are grants from the Department of Agriculture, exclusively in the prime-recipient role.

The cooperative's federal footprint concentrates entirely within USDA's Rural Business Cooperative Services (12 awards) and a single National Institute of Food and Agriculture award. Rural Business Cooperative Services accounts for 100% of recent award volume. Combined federal grant obligations across all awards total $17 million, with the largest single award a $7.983 million COVID Relief for Biofuel Producers grant (CFDA 10.378) dated May 5, 2022, with completion date May 5, 2024. A second significant award, a $495,430 project grant under the same Biofuel Producer Program, was dated May 26, 2023, with completion date May 26, 2025. More recent awards include advanced-biofuel production grants dated March 14, 2024 (completed same day), April 2, 2024 (completion February 18, 2025), and January 27, 2026 (completed same day). The source summary notes that the cooperative received two earlier project grants totaling $5,250 in 2020 for advanced biofuel production.

Activity is sparse and episodic — two awards in 2020, one each in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024, and one in 2026 — with no consistent trajectory. The cooperative does not compete on federal contracts, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. Its federal footprint is limited to grant awards supporting biofuel production capacity and pandemic-relief operations, with no subcontractor involvement or commercial service-delivery posture in federal procurement.