Farm Funding Deadlines: July 2025 Edition

Minnesota New Markets Cost-Share Program: Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Due July 9, 2025

This program can help your Minnesota farm or branded food, beverage, or pet food company cover the cost of e-commerce initiatives, digital and e-mail marketing, Business-to-Business (B2B) tradeshows, store demos and other marketing initiatives. Minnesota-based farm or food businesses with fewer than 500 employees may apply, and participants are reimbursed at a rate of 50% of eligible investment made.

Native Agriculture & Food Systems Scholarship: First Nations Development Institute

Due July 11, 2025

This program supports Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian college students to enter agriculture and food systems fields so that they can better assist their communities with their food systems efforts. It will award 20 to 25 scholarships at the amount of $1,000 to $1,500 for the 2025-2026 academic school year to Native college or university students majoring in agriculture and agriculture-related fields.

Ohio Agriculture Growing Tomorrow Grants: Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation

Due July 31, 2025

This program helps inspire young agricultural professionals and entrepreneurs to find creative and transformative ways to address challenges facing the agricultural sector by providing grants to new or early-stage agricultural businesses. Grant amounts are typically between $1,000 and $3,000 and are provided for a one-year period, and matching funds and/or resources are required.

Emergency Commodity Assistance (ECAP): Farm Service Agency (FSA)

Due August 1, 2025

ECAP provides economic assistance payments to eligible producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year. These payments are intended to help farmers cope with losses from natural disasters and a difficult farm economy, and will help preserve family farms and ranches across the country.

Vermont Farm Agronomic Practices Grant (FAP): Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets

Due August 1, 2025

This program utilizes state funding to help Vermont farms implement soil-based agronomic practices that improve soil quality, increase crop production, and reduce erosion and agricultural waste discharges. Grants are limited to $10,000 per farm operation per State fiscal year (July 1 to June 30). Note that August 15th is the fall field practices deadline–spring field practices applications were due on April 1st and rotational grazing applications were due on June 15th.

Minnesota Meat, Poultry, and Milk Processing Grant: Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Due August 7, 2025

This program offers designated grants to facilitate the start-up, modernization, or expansion of meat, poultry, egg, and milk processing businesses. The minimum award is $1,000 and the maximum award is $150,000, and the grant requires a cash match. Applicants are responsible for 50% of the first $50,000 to receive up to a $25,000 reimbursement. For costs after the first $50,000, they are responsible for 75% of the total remaining cost to receive 25% reimbursement, up to a maximum grant award of $150,000.

Southwest USDA Regional Food Business Center (RFBC): U.S. Department of Agriculture

Due August 15, 2025

This award is intended to support the development of local and regional food supply chains by providing capital directly to businesses to access and/or expand market outlets and connect with local and regional supply chains. Eligible organizations include producers and growers, distributors and processors, cooperatives, nonprofits and retailers. All applicants must be small (gross annual sales less than $350,000) to mid-sized (gross annual sales greater than $350,000 but less than $1 million).

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Heritage Livestock Microgrant Program: The Livestock Conservancy

Due August 15, 2025

These microgrants help farmers, ranchers, shepherds, homesteaders and breed groups in saving Conservation Priority List breeds from extinction. Microgrants up to $2,000 each are awarded in four categories: National Microgrants for adult individuals; Youth Microgrants for teens; Emergency Response Microgrants and Breed Association Grants to improve membership services, marketing materials, gene banking and educational events.

BirdReturns Sandhill Crane Program: The Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership

Due August 20, 2025

The objective of this program is to incentivize farmers to create new crane habitat to increase the resilience of the Central Valley’s population. To apply, farmers must submit an application consisting of the acreage of foraging and/or roosting habitat they wish to provide. Farmers accepted in the program will all be paid the same fixed rates per acre for these different habitat types.

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Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops Program (FSCSC): Farm Service Agency

Opens July 1, 2025

The FSCSC program provides financial assistance for specialty crop operations that incur eligible on-farm food safety program expenses related to obtaining or renewing a food safety certification. This program helps offset costs to comply with regulatory requirements and market-driven food safety certification requirements.

Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Project: California Dairy Research Foundation

Opens July 25, 2025

This program promotes climate-smart dairy markets and provide financial incentives for dairy producers to adopt climate-smart manure management practices to reduce methane emissions, leveraging matching funding from non-federal sources. Financial incentives are planned on a per-cow basis to producers to implement vermifiltration, evaporative liquid waste processing systems, subsurface drip fertigation using liquid manure, weeping walls, aerated static compost piles, and others.

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