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Interagency Northern Great Plains Native Seed Increase Contracts

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The Department of the Interior is forecasting interagency seed increase contracts for the Northern Great Plains, covering portions of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Colorado. These contracts aim to address the commercial market's inability to provide an adequate supply of native seeds required for federal vegetation management, post-fire recovery, and disaster restoration. By recruiting local growers and reducing initial production risks, the initiative seeks to lower government seeding costs, stabilize the market, and increase the variety of commercially available native species. The primary goal of these contracts is to ensure the availability of seed stocks specifically developed for local growing conditions to improve rangeland health, restore wildlife habitats, and reclaim lands affected by mining, oil, and gas development. This strategy prevents reliance on non-native or cultivated varieties that fail to maintain functioning ecosystems. The forecast is categorized under NAICS code 111998 and is managed by the Department of the Interior.

General Info

Interior Department contracts local growers for native seeds to restore Northern Great Plains rangelands.

Agency

Department of the Interior

NAICS

111998 - All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming

Place of Performance

ND, USA

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PostedAug 14

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AgencyDepartment of the Interior

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Department of the Interior

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Full Description

Interagency seed increase contracts will be developed for the Northern Great Plains including portions of MT, WY, N Dakota, S Dakota and CO. Since 2001, on a bipartisan basis, Congress has recognized the commercial market does not produce an adequate supply of native seed to meet the federal government’s need to manage native vegetation. In addition to meeting an immediate need to increase the seed supply for post fire and disaster recovery, seed increase contracts are part of a larger strategy to lower government seeding costs by creating a stable market and improving the effectiveness of seeding projects. These seed increase contracts improve the variety of species commercially available, help recruit local growers by lowering their initial production risk, and help prevent market volatility. Without these contracts DOI agencies will be forced to continue to rely on a handful of easy to produce non-native species, and cultivated varieties that, based on the best available science, do not restore and maintain functioning ecosystems. Native plants are not like weeds that can grow anywhere. Seed stocks for the Northern Great Plains are specifically developed for the local growing conditions and are targeted to improve rangeland health, restore habitat for wildlife, reclaim mined lands and sites developed for oil and gas.