Farm Service Agency is announcing the availability of cooperative agreement funding for up to $10 million to monitor, assess, and evaluate conservation approaches and technologies in conjunction with the Conservation Reserve Program.
Donor Name: Farm Service Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/31/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
CRP is a Federally funded voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to convert marginal or environmentally sensitive cropland to a perennial cover of grass, forbs, shrubs, and/or trees, or to safeguard high value grazing land from conversion to other uses.
Project Topics
- Ecosystem Benefits
- Assess CRP’s impact on natural resources such as climate mitigation/adaptation, wildlife habitat, water quality/quantity, and soil health.
- Bottom Up, Middle Out
- Evaluate CRP’s role in strengthening farm operations’ viability and resilience. Develop program delivery strategies that improve the CRPs function to support economic growth and stability within rural communities.
- Identify ways for agricultural producers to monitor conditions on and share lessons learned from enrolled CRP acres.
- Evaluating CRP in the Big Picture
- Evaluating and developing strategies of how CRP fits into a larger framework of natural resources management and conservation.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $10,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $5,000,000
- Award Floor: $500,000
Project Period
Projects may be between 1 and 5 years in duration.
Eligiblity Criteria
Eligibility for this opportunity is limited to the following entity types:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally-recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
