Trade And Consumer Protection Wisconsin Department Of Agriculture

Trade and Consumer Protection Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Management Services Division, a child division of the Wisconsin Governor's Office, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering food safety inspection, animal health surveillance, pest detection, and agricultural regulatory compliance services. The division acts as prime recipient on 406 of its 413 recent awards (98%), with a combined potential value of $8.6 million and obligated dollars of $308.1 million, and holds no federal contract prime awardees in the recent footprint—the division's work is dominated by cooperative agreements and grants under USDA and FDA programs.

The division's customer concentration centers on agricultural and food safety agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 73% of recent awards by count, led by USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (178 awards), USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (56 awards), and FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Operations divisions (33 awards combined potential value of $7.7 million). The two rankings diverge moderately: FDA carries the largest dollar magnitude despite placing fewer awards; APHIS dominates both volume and dollars. Recent capability work includes a $1.068 million FDA definitive contract (awarded September 30, 2026) for human food state inspections in Wisconsin through September 2031, a $903.4 million FDA cooperative agreement for Wisconsin's meat and poultry inspection program (awarded September 25, 2023, through March 2027), a $2.095 million FDA Laboratory Flexible Funding Model cooperative agreement (awarded September 25, 2025) for food safety sample testing and analysis through June 2030 under the Food Emergency Response Network, and a $1.108 million USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service cooperative agreement (awarded October 1, 2025) for meat and poultry inspection operations.

The division's grant portfolio spans multiple federal programs and grantor agencies. USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service funds animal health national surveillance and response activities including avian influenza testing (7,406 tests per year), bovine spongiform encephalopathy sampling (1,174 samples annually), tuberculosis testing on suspect cattle (318 tests per year), swine disease monitoring, and cervid chronic wasting disease prevention through genomic breeding value testing and selective breeding. APHIS also funds pest detection and exotic invasive species surveillance across forest pests (spotted lanternfly, box tree moth, Asian longhorned beetle, spongy moth), crop pests (European cherry fruit fly, leek moth, summer fruit tortrix), and pathogen monitoring (Phytophthora ramorum in nurseries). The division distributes USDA Agricultural Marketing Service specialty crop block grants ($1.282 million awarded September 30, 2025, through September 2028) to 13 sub-recipients across research, marketing, and education projects targeting black currants, ginseng, table grapes, and cranberries. EPA Region 5 funds the division's underground storage tank prevention and detection program ($1.185 million awarded October 1, 2025, through September 2027) under the UST Prevention, Detection, and Compliance Program and pesticide regulatory enforcement ($856,521 awarded October 1, 2025, through September 2026) under the Performance Partnership Grants program. USDA National Resources Conservation Service has awarded the division cooperative agreements for employment of conservation specialists ($1.15 million, five-year period through September 2028) and soil and watershed health specialists ($1 million, five-year period through September 2028) under the Soil and Water Conservation program. The division also receives USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant funding ($1.381 million awarded September 30, 2024, through September 2027) and operates a rapid response team for human and animal food emergencies ($2 million cooperative agreement through March 2027) in support of FDA's food safety modernization efforts.

Activity has tracked at 16 to 24 awards annually over the past five years, with 2025 recording 24 awards. Seventeen awards totaling $903 thousand in potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete opportunity. The division operates Wisconsin's state meat and poultry inspection program, animal health surveillance and disease response activities, exotic pest detection and early warning systems, and food laboratory testing and analysis services, anchoring its role as an extension of federal regulatory authority at the state level for USDA and FDA mission objectives.