Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA AMS TM SCBGP G 18 0003
The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) - Farm Bill is a grant opportunity administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) designed to strengthen and improve the competitiveness of specialty crops across the United States and its territories. For this funding cycle, AMS set aside about 72.1 million dollars in grant funds (after subtracting AMS administrative costs) specifically for projects that support specialty crop industries. Under the program rules, "specialty crops" are narrowly defined and include fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, tree nuts, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture. In other words, the funding is reserved for efforts tied directly to these specialty crop categories rather than general agriculture.
A key feature of this program is that individual farmers, nonprofits, universities, and private businesses do not apply directly to AMS under this particular federal announcement. Instead, eligible applicants are State departments of agriculture (or equivalent state-level agencies, commissions, or departments responsible for agriculture). Eligibility covers all 50 States as well as the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories and commonwealths, including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Because the State department of agriculture is the official applicant at the federal level, anyone who is not a State government entity is directed to work through their local State department of agriculture, which typically runs its own competitive process to select and fund projects within the state using the federal block grant award.
The program is structured so that State departments of agriculture are expected to do proactive outreach to specialty crop stakeholders and to run a competitive grant proposal process inside their jurisdictions. This outreach is specifically encouraged to include specialty crop stakeholders broadly, with attention to socially disadvantaged and beginning farmers. Practically, that means states may solicit proposals for marketing initiatives, research, education, food safety improvements, pest and disease work, supply chain development, training, and other activities that measurably improve the position of specialty crops in the marketplace or strengthen the industry overall. State contacts and each state’s request for proposals are centralized through the AMS SCBGP website at www.ams.usda.gov/scbgp, which is where prospective project partners generally find state-level deadlines and application instructions.
For administrative reference, this opportunity was published under Funding Opportunity Number USDA AMS TM SCBGP G 18 0003, categorized as a mandatory grant within the agriculture funding activity area, and tied to CFDA number 10.170. AMS anticipated making awards to 56 eligible state and territory applicants. The federal application deadline for State departments of agriculture to submit to AMS for this cycle was May 24, 2018, meaning that any organizations seeking support would have needed to follow their own state’s separate timeline and procedures ahead of the federal submission date.Apply for USDA AMS TM SCBGP G 18 0003
- The Agricultural Marketing Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Specialty Crop Block Grant Program – Farm Bill" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.170.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-03-07.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-05-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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