Ross Seed Company

Ross Seed Company, a for-profit manufacturer and distributor of agricultural seeds and livestock based in El Reno, Oklahoma, sells wheat seed, triticale seed, and registered livestock to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under small-business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The vendor competes predominantly under total small business set-asides; across its recent federal footprint, set-aside and full-and-open awards run roughly equal in count, but the vendor's core customer — the Federal Correctional Institution El Reno — routes a majority of its purchase orders to Ross Seed Company under total small business designations.

Ross Seed Company's federal customer base concentrates sharply on two agencies. The Federal Correctional Institution El Reno (Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice) accounts for 11 of the vendor's 34 total awards and $191 thousand in combined potential value, with purchase orders for wheat seed, triticale, winter wheat, and registered Angus bulls supporting the prison farm's food production operations. The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area division represents 10 awards worth $105 thousand combined potential value, chiefly for seed varieties including wheat and dry pea stock. The two agencies together account for 68% of all awards and 76% of combined potential value. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 has placed 2 awards worth $12 thousand. All 34 awards in the source are prime contracts; the vendor does not subcontract.

Recent activity has flattened to roughly one award per year over the past three years (2024: 2 awards; 2025: 1 award; 2026: 1 award), down from earlier volume. The most recent award, issued August 24, 2026, is a $20,250 total small business purchase order from Federal Correctional Institution El Reno for 75,000 pounds of wheat seed with a delivery deadline of September 11, 2026. Representative prior awards include a $21,504 total small business wheat seed delivery to the same facility in July 2023, a $19,800 full-and-open purchase order for registered Angus bulls from Federal Correctional Institution El Reno in August 2025, and a $12,396 total small business seed contract with Federal Correctional Institution El Reno in August 2024 for wheat, triticale, and winter wheat varieties. All combined potential value across the 34-award footprint — $407 thousand — has been obligated. Ross Seed Company maintains SAM registration and has maintained a continuous federal vendor relationship since at least November 2003.