The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) invites Wisconsin farmers and cooperating entities to apply for commercial Nitrogen Optimization Pilot Program research grants.
Donor Name: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection
State: Wisconsin
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
NOPP is designed to encourage agricultural producers to develop innovative approaches to optimize the application of commercial nitrogen for a duration of at least two growing seasons. The producers must collaborate with a UWS institution, which will monitor the grant project on-site.
These grants aim to enhance the understanding of and refine new methods that optimize commercial nitrogen applied to agricultural fields.
Funding Priorities
Funding priorities are set in statute and include:
- Projects located in different parts of the state to incorporate data from differing soils and geological characteristics.
- Innovative projects not currently funded by other state or federal programs.
- Multi-year projects, with a minimum of two years required.
Funding Information
- There is $1 million available for this round of grants. Multiple agricultural producers may work together, or with cooperating entities, to submit a single application. Each agricultural producer who is part of the application is eligible to receive a maximum award of $40,000 for the project.
- Contracts will be for a minimum of two years.
Under 92.14(16), Stats., grant recipients must meet all of the following eligibility requirements to be considered for funding:
- Project must include two growing seasons.
- UWS institution should monitor the grant project on-site.
- Priority will be given to innovative projects not currently funded through state or federal programs.
- Priority will be given for longer-term projects.
Eligibility Applicants
The project application must meet all the following criteria:
- An agricultural producer may be the grant applicant for one (1) grant project per cycle. The same agricultural producer may be party to other grant projects if the total award to that producer does not exceed $40,000.
- The agricultural producer must operate an eligible farm (a farm that has produced at least $6,000 in gross farm revenues during the taxable year to which the claim relates or, in the taxable year to which the claim relates and the immediately preceding taxable years, at least $18,000 in the gross farm revenues).
- Applicants who wish to site a NOPP project on land that they do not own must consult with and obtain permission to conduct the project from the land’s owner.
- The producer must collaborate with the UW as detailed in this RFP and allow both DATCP and UW project personnel farm access throughout the project duration.
- The producer agrees to voluntarily conduct commercial nitrogen optimization field studies and agrees to plan and manage on-farm research or has chosen to partner with consultants or other farmers to plan and manage the on-farm research.
For more information, visit DATCP.
