U.s.a. Dry Pea And Lentil Council, Inc.

U.s.a. Dry Pea And Lentil Council, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit agricultural trade organization headquartered in Moscow, Idaho, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on agricultural export market development, operating exclusively in that capacity with no prime contract vehicles and no subcontract footprint. The Council receives its entire award portfolio from the Department of Agriculture, split between the Foreign Agricultural Service Food for Education program (three cooperative agreements totaling market development funding) and the Risk Management Agency (two awards), with all five recent awards spanning federal grant assistance rather than contract procurement.

The Council's customer base concentrates entirely within USDA. The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Food for Education program accounts for three awards, while the Risk Management Agency accounts for two, representing 100% of the Council's recent federal activity. Dollar concentration is similarly singular: all $18.6 million in combined obligated dollars flow from USDA sources, with no diversification across other agencies.

The Council's grant work centers on market development activities that foster the development, maintenance, and expansion of commercial export markets for United States dry peas and lentils. Representative work includes a $4 million Cooperative Agreement awarded by USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Food for Education on April 30, 2026 (CFDA 10.618, Regional Agricultural Promotion Program), running through September 30, 2028, with performance in Moscow, Idaho and focused on market development activities for export market expansion and commodity diversification. An earlier $4 million cooperative agreement from the same program, awarded December 23, 2024, runs through September 30, 2030. A third Food for Education cooperative agreement followed on June 1, 2024. As a designated nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organization, the Council qualifies as an eligible applicant under the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, which reimburses such organizations for approved market development activities and requires proposals submitted through the FAS Unified Export Strategy system.

Activity remains sparse and episodic — one award in 2016, one in 2018, two in 2024, and one in 2026 — with only one award (combined potential value undisclosed) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.