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The USDA Farm to School Grant Program is funded through the use of grants by the USDA, with 2019 seeing nearly $10 million awarded supporting 3.2 million students in over 5,400 schools across 42 states. [12] The program also seeks to encourage young children to pursue careers related to the creation and distribution of food supplies.
Provides funding to farmers/ranchers who wish to study sustainable solutions to current problems in the agriculture industry through on-farm research, demonstration, and education projects [8] •Grants are offered to: individuals (maximum award of $7,500), a team of two (maximum award of $15,000), or a group (maximum award of $22,500) [8]
The Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics is a high-ranking official within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides leadership and oversight for the Agricultural Research Service, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Economic Research Service, National Agricultural Library, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
The mission of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is to stimulate and fund the research and technological innovations that will enhance American agriculture and make it more productive and environmentally sustainable while ensuring the economic viability of agriculture ...
Applications close Jan. 13 for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program — a $2.2 billion program for farmers who faced USDA discrimination. ... North Dakota State wins 10th FCS title with ...
The Rural Development Administration (RDA) was a USDA agency established by the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Sec. 2302), amending the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), to administer FmHA community and business programs and other USDA rural development programs.
McCoy has since helped several students win grants to buy seeds and equipment. One of McCoy’s first student farmers, Zachary Call, was so successful that after graduation he continued to farm full-time—no small feat on the industrial western edge of West Virginia. All told, McCoy now buys more than $85,000 a year in local produce.
(The Center Square) – Two Wisconsin businesses have obtained a total of more than $375,000 in rural development grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund water loans and a company ...