The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP).
Donor Name: Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
To explore and identify new market opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products, and encourage research and innovation aimed at improving the efficiency and performance of the U.S. agricultural marketing system. FSMIP funds a wide range of applied research projects that address barriers, challenges, and opportunities in marketing, transportation, and distribution of U.S. food and agricultural products domestically and internationally.
Project Types
- Agricultural Product Development
- Innovation and enhancement of agricultural products, practices, and methodology. Agricultural Product Distribution The handling, storage, processing, transportation, and distribution of agricultural products.
- Cooperative Development
- The cooperation among Federal and state agencies, producers, industry organizations, and others in the development and creation of research and marketing programs to improve the distribution processes of agricultural products.
- Economic Research
- To clarify marketing barriers and opportunities, including regulatory compliance costs.
All FSMIP applications:
- Must have a strong marketing focus, must involve research, and the primary beneficiaries must be agricultural producers and agribusinesses.
- May address topics dealing with any level of the marketing chain including direct, wholesale, and retail as well as issues of importance at the State, multi-State, or national level.
- Training or education related applications must include a research component that tests its effects on the marketing goals.
- AMS will consider unique smaller-scale applications that may serve as pilot projects or case studies as models for others. Such applications must include an objective to analyze opportunities and formulate recommendations regarding how the project could be scaled up or expanded to other regions
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,100,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $50, 000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligible Projects
FSMIP projects can:
- Determine the best methods for processing, preparing for market, packing, handling, transporting, storing, distributing, and marketing agricultural products.
- Determine the costs of marketing agricultural products in their various forms and through various channels.
- Assist in the development of more efficient marketing methods, practices, and facilities to bring about more efficient and orderly marketing, and reduce the price spread between the producer and the consumer.
- Develop and improve standards of quality, condition, quantity, grade, and packaging in order to encourage uniformity and consistency in commercial practices.
- Eliminate artificial barriers to the free movement of agricultural products in commercial channels.
- Foster new/expanded domestic and foreign markets and new/expanded uses of agricultural products.
- Collect and disseminate marketing information to anticipate and meet consumer requirements, maintain farm income, and balance production and use.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are state departments of agriculture, state agricultural experiment stations, and other appropriate state agencies from the 50 States, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- The term “other appropriate state Agency” means a state university, a state college, or a state government entity such as a state department of forestry, natural resources, or energy.
- The terms “state university” and “state college” include land-grant universities and colleges which are defined as institutions of higher education in the United States and designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. Tribal colleges and universities that became land-grant institutions in 1994, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, as well as other State-run colleges and universities are also eligible.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
