Agricultural Marketing Service's contract dollars, traced to the source.
Agricultural Marketing Service · Department of Agriculture
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is the USDA component that oversees marketing of U.S. agricultural products, sets commodity grading and quality standards, and buys food for federal nutrition and food-donation programs. Its contract dollars — roughly $3.67B in FY2025 — are overwhelmingly bulk commodity food procurement, with the largest awards going to processors and packers for donation-program staples such as roasted pistachios, canned pink salmon, canned beef, and frozen Alaska pollock. Vendors like Stutz Packing, OBI Seafoods, Lakeside Foods, and Trident Seafoods anchor the top of the spend.
Contract obligations (latest complete FY)
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Contract obligations (in progress)
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Signal tier
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USAspending contract feed
What this monitor reads — and what it doesn't
This is the contract-signal tier: the live USAspending award feed for the Agricultural Marketing Service awarding sub-agency. It shows where AMS's procurement dollars go — obligations over time and the largest awards — not total budget authority, which also includes payroll, grants, and transfers. Figures reflect the contract (procurement) slice reported to USAspending, not AMS total budget authority. The appropriation-level view lives on the Department of Agriculture monitor.