Federal sub-agency · Department of Agriculture

Rural Business Cooperative Service

No contract obligations recorded for Rural Business Cooperative Service in FY2026. It also awarded $74.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
Actions
0
New awards: 0
Sole-source
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

No contract obligations recorded for Rural Business Cooperative Service in FY2026.

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Rural Business Cooperative Service obligated $74.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1,397 actions (1,316 new awards), −94% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.351 · Rural Business Development Grant ($34.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$74.2M
Loan face value
$1.2B
lent or guaranteed
Actions
1,397
Since FY2021
$4.8B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 182MFY2021
  2. 1.1BFY2022
  3. 1.2BFY2023
  4. 1BFY2024
  5. 1.2BFY2025
  6. 74.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$70.4M95%
  2. Direct payments$3.8M5.1%
  3. Loans$00.0%
    $1.2B lent or guaranteed

Top programs

  1. 10.351 · Rural Business Development Grant$34.7M47%
  2. 10.352 · Value-Added Producer Grants$10.8M15%
  3. 10.867 · Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels$10.6M14%
  4. 10.854 · Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants$6.9M9.2%
  5. 10.782 · Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas$3M4.0%
  6. 10.754 · Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program$2.2M3.0%
  7. 10.381 · Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program$2M2.7%
  8. 10.874 · Delta Health Care Services Grant Program$1.9M2.5%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY INC$3M4.0%
    BUTTE, MT
  2. NORTHERN BORDER REGIONAL COMMISSION$2.5M3.4%
    CONCORD, NH
  3. LIMITED ONE ENTERPRISES INC.$1.8M2.4%
    NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA
  4. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$1.5M2.0%
    AMES, IA
  5. BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION$1.2M1.6%
    LENOIR, NC
  6. DOOLEY'S PETROLEUM, INC$1M1.4%
    WILLMAR, MN
  7. BSA SEAFOOD, LLC$1M1.3%
    GRASONVILLE, MD
  8. CHIPPIN, INC.$1M1.3%
    ARLINGTON, VA

Where it went

  1. Iowa$6.8M9.2%
  2. North Carolina$5.1M6.9%
  3. Minnesota$4.7M6.3%
  4. Montana$3.4M4.6%
  5. Georgia$3.3M4.5%
  6. New Hampshire$3M4.1%
  7. Vermont$2.8M3.8%
  8. Illinois$2.7M3.6%
  9. Missouri$2.6M3.5%
  10. California$2.5M3.3%

By state of the place of performance.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $21.3M (43 subawards)

42 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. FITCH RANCH ARTISAN MEAT CO LLC$7M33%
    CRAIG, CO · 1 subaward
  2. MIDWESTERN MEAT LOCKER LLC$4.3M20%
    NEWELL, SD · 1 subaward
  3. OLD SALT MEAT COMPANY, LLC$1.4M6.6%
    HELENA, MT · 1 subaward
  4. FIVE PILLARS BUTCHERY HOUSE OF MEAT L.L.C$1.2M5.6%
    UNITY, ME · 1 subaward
  5. LEONARDS LOCKER LLC$855.8K4.0%
    NEW HAMPTON, IA · 1 subaward
  6. MARK'S CUSTOM MEATS, LLC$750K3.5%
    HOWARD, PA · 1 subaward
  7. MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION$250K1.2%
    TACOMA, WA · 1 subaward
  8. COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC.$250K1.2%
    MAYNARD, MA · 1 subaward
  9. CORNETT FARM FRESH LLC$250K1.2%
    LONDON, KY · 1 subaward
  10. THE CLINE CARMACK CO, INC$250K1.2%
    NOTASULGA, AL · 1 subaward

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.