Riesterer & Schnell Inc.

Riesterer & Schnell Inc., a small business agricultural equipment supplier based in Pulaski, Wisconsin, sells farm and forestry machinery, precision-agriculture equipment, and equipment repair services to federal natural resource and agricultural research agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation registered in the System for Award Management since April 2008, competing primarily under Total Small Business set-asides for new equipment procurements and full-and-open designations for repair and maintenance work.

Riesterer & Schnell's recent award footprint reflects narrow, deep specialization in agricultural and forestry equipment. Top customers are the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Midwest Area — which has placed three awards totaling $225 thousand for tractors equipped with precision-agriculture RTK GPS autosteer systems and standard utility tractors — the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Eastern Region with five awards valued at $146 thousand, the Forest Service Northern Research Station with three awards for $48 thousand, and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service with two awards totaling $28 thousand for tractor repair and maintenance work. ARS dominates potential value despite Forest Service leading award count; the two rankings diverge on volume versus dollars. Representative named work includes a $97.8 thousand ARS purchase order awarded March 19, 2026, for a John Deere 5095M utility tractor with RTK GPS autosteer capability for the Arlington Research Station precision-breeding nursery operations, a $81.6 thousand May 2025 ARS purchase order for a 4WD agriculture tractor delivering to the Stratford research facility, a $45.3 thousand April 2026 ARS purchase order for a forage box-wagon, and a $14.4 thousand April 2024 Fish and Wildlife Service purchase order for brake and mower repair on a John Deere tractor at Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Pulaski.

Activity is sparse and flat — one award per year in 2022 through 2025, then two in 2026, with fourteen total awards since 2008 and a combined obligated value of $497 thousand. Two awards carrying combined potential value of $143 thousand face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete opportunity. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint. Award concentrations track heavily to NAICS 333111 (farm machinery manufacturing) and PSC Tractors, Wheeled, reflecting a focused go-to-market centered on equipment sales and repair for USDA research stations and Fish and Wildlife Service refuge operations in the upper Midwest.

We sell, provide parts, and service equipment for agriculture, construction, excavating as well as residential and commercial lawn care equipment, snow removal equipment and recreation utility vehicles.