The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) 2025 Weed Management Area Grant Program (WMAGP) will award grants to eligible applicants within the State of California to establish, develop and maintain Weed Management Areas (WMAs) and implement the WMAs integrated weed management plan.
Donor Name: California Department of Food and Agriculture
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The 2025 WMAGP will support implementation of weed control and weed mapping projects in California that result in permanent, annual, and measurable work product (map or plan) and/or weed reductions. All projects that receive funding are required to have measurable results.
The CDFA has allocated $6 million for the WMA program (Food and Agriculture code 7271) and will fund one grant proposal per WMA, with a maximum award amount of $120,000 based on $40,000 per year.
Grant Period
3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- The 2025 WMAGP will support WMAs in California. A WMA is a local organization that brings together all interested landowners, land managers (private, city, county, state, and federal), special districts, and the public, in a county or other geographical area for the purpose of coordinating and combining their action and expertise to deal with their common weed control problems.
- WMA Project must:
- Describe weed species and areas to be controlled/mapped and why they were selected.
- Describe how control/mapping will be performed (technique, timing, etc).
For more information, visit CDFA.
