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USDA-AMS-TM-SCMP-G-23-0020: Specialty Crop Multi-State Program

Closed Closed January 31, 2024 Opportunity USDA-AMS-TM-SCMP-G-23-0020 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Specialty Crop Multi-State Grant Program 2026 (USDA-AMS-TM-SCMP-G-26-0020). Status: Closes December 4, 2026 (27 days left). It is in our archive of Agricultural Marketing Service notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Award floor$250,000
• Total funding$10.0 million
• Expected awards80
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

• State governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

More grants for nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill awards averaged $1.3 million; this notice allows up to $1.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (98% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The SCMP supports collaborative multi-state partnerships to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through competitively funded projects. A multi-state partnership is a project that implements activities with measurable outcomes that benefit two or more U.S. States and/or Territories along with Non-Profit entities. The focus is to address regional or national level specialty crop issues, including, but not limited to, food safety, plant pests and disease, research, crop-specific projects addressing common issues, and marketing and promotion. Projects must enhance the competitiveness of U.S. or U.S. territory-grown specialty crops in either domestic or foreign markets.

Category: Agriculture.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, USDA-AMS-TM-SCMP-G-26-0020, which is open now.

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