Supreme Rice, LLC

Supreme Rice, LLC, doing business as Louisiana Rice Mills, is a small business subsidiary of TRC Group Inc. that supplies milled, fortified, and packaged rice commodities to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor on partial small business set-aside and full-and-open definitive contracts. The company operates rice milling and packaging facilities in Mermentau and Crowley, Louisiana, and has been registered as a federal contractor since 2003. Supreme Rice competes across set-aside and full-and-open vehicles, with the majority of recent prime awards (2022–2026) designated as partial small business set-asides; a smaller number carry full-and-open or total small business set-aside designations.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Agriculture's commodity procurement offices. The top five funding entities account for 91 percent of awards and include the Farm Service Agency's Kansas City Commodity Office (72 awards, $117.1 million combined potential value), the Food and Nutrition Service (36 awards, $80 million), the Foreign Agricultural Service (76 awards, $68.6 million), the Agricultural Marketing Service Washington Office (7 awards, $34.1 million), and the Foreign Agricultural Service's Food for Progress program (9 awards, $24.7 million). These customers dominate both award count and dollar volume. Supreme Rice operates as a 100 percent prime contractor footprint with no subcontract work recorded in the source.

The company's concrete capability is the procurement, milling, fortification, and packaging of rice commodities in multiple varieties (long grain, medium grain, brown, parboiled) and packaging formats (1-pound consumer units through 50-kilogram bulk bags) for domestic food assistance programs, international food aid, and food-bank distribution. Recent representative contracts include a $5.9 million Food and Nutrition Service delivery order for diverse rice products in multiple package sizes (August 2025), a $7.15 million Food for Progress contract for 5/20 large white milled rice in 50-kilogram bags in bulk (September 2024), and a $14.17 million Agricultural Marketing Service award for medium and long grain rice in 2-pound and 30-pound packages (August 2023). All contracts carry firm fixed-price terms.

Activity has grown substantially year over year, from ten awards in 2022 to twenty-four in 2024, though recent 2025–2026 activity shows a decline to five awards in the first six months of 2026. Only four awards (combined potential value $8.9 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing limited recompete exposure relative to the vendor's active portfolio. The company also holds a $45 million USDA Farm Service Agency project grant (Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, awarded April 2023, completion date April 2028) for expanding markets for climate-smart rice farming practices in Louisiana and Arkansas. NAICS code 311211 (Flour Milling) and 311212 (Rice Milling) and PSC 8945 (Food, Oils and Fats) apply across the footprint. Supreme Rice's entire award footprint reflects commodity supply to a single customer ecosystem (USDA), with no diversification into other federal agencies, parent contract vehicles, or advisory/professional services.