The FARMER Program is supported by California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment – particularly in disadvantaged communities.
Donor Name: Feather River Air Quality Management District
State: California
County: Yuba County (CA) and Sutter County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/21/2022
Details:
The Feather River Air Quality Management District administers the Funding Agricultural Measures for Emission Reductions (FARMER) Program. The equipment must operate in Yuba or Sutter counties and all projects must comply with the 2017 Carl Moyer Guidelines.
The FARMER Program funds projects that will “reduce agricultural sector emissions by providing grants, rebates, and other financial incentives for agricultural harvesting equipment, heavy-duty trucks, agricultural pump engines, tractors, and other equipment used in agricultural operations.” The FARMER Program Guidelines provides the following definition of “agricultural operations:”
- “Agricultural Operations” means (1) the growing or harvesting of crops from soil (including forest operations) and the raising of plants at wholesale nurseries, but not retail nurseries, or the raising of fowl or animals for the primary purpose of making a profit, providing a livelihood, or conducting agricultural research or instruction by an educational institution, or (2) agricultural crop preparation services such as packinghouses, cotton gins, nut hullers and processors, dehydrators, and feed and grain mills. Agricultural crop preparation services included only the first processing after harvest, not subsequent processing, canning, or other similar activities. For forest operations, agricultural crop preparation services include milling, peeling, producing particleboard and medium density fiberboard, and producing woody landscape materials.
Eligible Project Categories
The District will be accepting applications for off-road equipment replacement and repower projects of:
- Off-road mobile, diesel agricultural equipment;
- Off-road mobile, large spark-ignition (LSI) agricultural equipment; and
- Agricultural irrigation pump engines
For more information, visit Feather River Air Quality Management District.
