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Submit the Emergency Insect Management Grant packet (available as PDF/Word at agriculture.wy.gov) by the annual deadline, postmarked or emailed by that date. 2026 applications were due March 31, 2026; the program recurs annually under the statute. Questions: Lindsay Woodward, 307-777-6585, lindsey.woodward@wyo.gov.

Lindsay Woodward

The Emergency Insect Management Grant, administered by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture and the Emergency Insect Management Committee under the 2003 Emergency Insect Management Program Act (W.S. 11-5-401 through 11-5-405), provides supplemental funding to manage emergency outbreaks of insect pests and disease-vector insects for the protection of human health and safety, animal health (including livestock and wildlife), agriculture, and natural resources in Wyoming.



State agencies and political subdivisions — including cities, towns, counties, weed and pest districts, and special districts. Institutional program; individual producers are not direct applicants (they are served through eligible districts/entities).

A lump sum of money for a specific purpose that does not need to be paid back.

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Disaster Relief

Nutrition & Food Safety

Coronavirus

Fencing

Trade Relief

Trees

Weather

Wildfire

Drought

Flood

Hurricane

Tornado

Inputs

A cost-share reimbursement with a statutory match, not a fixed-dollar award. No maximum or minimum grant amount is published.

Cost share and match. "Grant Funds - are funds provided by the EIMPA and can be granted for not more than 50% of the total program cost to the grantee, except as provided by the act." Correspondingly, "Matching Funds - are provided by the grantee and must make up 50% or more of the total cost of the program as determined by the committee, with the exception of certain insect pest outbreaks."

The 75% exception. Early intervention earns a better split: "When grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are controlled before the incipient population occupies 2,000 acres, the cost share from the EIMPA can be as high as 75%."

What the match may not include. "Grantee funds spent outside of the approved beginning and end dates of an approved program cannot be claimed as match." The Emergency Insect Management Committee "has the right to request specific documentation of matching funds from the grantee, if the committee believes such documentation is necessary."

Limits on how grant dollars may be spent. "Only 20% of EIMPA funds may go to administrative costs, equipment and mapping activities during the first three years of a management program, and not more than 10% of these funds shall be used for those purposes in subsequent years."

Obligations that scale with award size. "Programs receiving grant funds below $3,000 are exempt from adult monitoring. All programs approved for grant funds above $2,999 must include Level 2 monitoring."

Grantees sign a contract with the Department of Agriculture, and the application must name the person authorized to sign it (e.g. town mayor, county commissioner, board chairman). A final report is required. Funding is supplemental — an "emergency" exists only when the risk "cannot be adequately addressed or managed with an applicant's available resources."

Complete the Specialty Crop Grant Application plus Appendices A, B, and C (a complete packet) and email it in PDF form to Michelle MacDonald at michelle.macdonald@wyo.gov. The current RFP is closed; the next RFP opens January 2027. Manual, application form, and appendices at agriculture.wy.gov. Questions: Michelle MacDonald, (307) 777-7323.

Michelle MacDonald

Wyoming's Specialty Crop Program (Specialty Crop Block Grant Program / SCBGP), administered by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture with USDA Agricultural Marketing Service funds, awards competitive grants that enhance the competitiveness of Wyoming specialty crops by increasing the production and consumption of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture, and floriculture.



Wyoming specialty crop stakeholders proposing eligible specialty crop projects. Projects considered in the 2027 RFP must start no earlier than January 1, 2028 and end no later than September 1, 2030.

Certification

Distribution

Diversification

Events

Trade Show

Farmers Market

Trials

Certified Organic

Food Systems

Award size (WDA Specialty Crop Block Grant manual). "Competitive grant awards will be considered up to a maximum of $24,500 for specialty crop projects lasting one year. In addition, we will entertain projects up to $100,000 lasting two to three years that can justify larger impacts and the need" for a longer term. The budget section restates it: "Funding amount requested is limited to a minimum of $10,000 and a maximum of $24,500 for one-year proposals and up to $100,000 for proposal lasting two to three years." Requests below $10,000 or above the applicable maximum are rejected — "Proposals requesting more than the maximum award amount" are listed as ineligible.

Statewide pool. "This year, the WDA is estimated to receive up to $340,000 from the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program" (contingent on the federal appropriation). That is the whole-state allocation, not an award.

Match. No match is required. If an applicant chooses to contribute matching funds, "the expenses to be covered with matching funds must be described separately using Appendix C 'Grant Match Template' only" and must not appear in the project budget.

Cost restrictions. Capital expenditures for general-purpose equipment, buildings and land are unallowable. Special-purpose equipment with a unit cost of $10,000 or more requires prior WDA approval. Processed products must constitute greater than 50% of the specialty crop by weight/volume to qualify.

Figures above come from the most recently posted grant manual, whose cover reads "Grant Application Manual — Fiscal Year 2026 Funding Cycle" with a March 9, 2026 proposal due date (only the PDF filename says 2025). The current RFP is closed and the next opens January 2027, so amounts could change.

List of Wyoming Department of Agriculture Funding Opportunities