Wedgworth's Inc.

Wedgworth's Inc., doing business as Wedgworths Inc., manufactures and delivers custom dry bulk fertilizer blends to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a prime contractor under small business set-asides and full-and-open competition, with a $6 million rural-development grant from USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services announced in January 2025 to expand production capacity. The Belle Glade, Florida-based for-profit small business competes exclusively in the fertilizer manufacturing and supply space (NAICS Fertilizer Mixing Only Manufacturing; PSC Fertilizers) and operates as a prime across 100% of its federal footprint with no subcontract presence.

Wedgworth's customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery accounts for 14 of 15 total awards (93% of awards) carrying a combined potential value of $256 thousand in contracts. The company's contract portfolio consists entirely of firm fixed-price purchase orders for specialized dry bulk fertilizer formulations — primarily 12-2-14, 12-3-14, and 12-3-15 blends with 90-day slow-release nitrogen and potassium specifications — delivered to USDA-ARS research facilities in Fort Pierce and Belle Glade, Florida to support citrus greening and tree crop research. Representative contract work includes a $20.9 million purchase order awarded February 5, 2026, for 28 tons of 12-3-14 formulation to Fort Pierce; a $23 million purchase order awarded February 1, 2024, for 28 tons of 12-3-14 to Fort Pierce; and a $19.5 million purchase order awarded June 30, 2025, for specialized tree-crop fertilizer, all under Total Small Business Set-Aside designations. Three additional 2024 and 2022 awards (July 26, July 23, and July 27) carried no set-aside designation and ranged from $11 thousand to $22.5 thousand. The source notes Wedgworth's as "the only" supplier meeting USDA-ARS's precision formulation and supply consistency requirements for citrus research.

The company's grant footprint comprises a single $6 million Project Grant under the Fertilizer Product Expansion Program (CFDA 10.383) from USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services, awarded January 10, 2025, with completion targeted for January 10, 2027. The grant funds expansion of fertilizer production infrastructure to increase nitrogen, phosphate, and potash availability for U.S. agricultural producers beyond the company's current focus on federal research supply.

Activity has remained flat to declining — two awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only one purchase order facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The combined potential value across all 15 awards is $256 thousand, but combined dollars obligated across those awards stands at $6.3 million, indicating that invoiced revenue significantly exceeds contract ceiling values, a pattern characteristic of purchase-order-based supply relationships with recurring small orders at stable unit prices.