The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is requesting proposals for directing fertilizer research and outreach programs.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA)
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funding Information
In the first RFP, there will be approximately $1,220,000 available for research and/or education and outreach projects. In the second RFP, a maximum of $30,000 has been set aside for the Research and Outreach Coordinator position for a one-year duration.
Eligible Projects
Eligible project activities include research, education, and technology transfer related to the production and application of fertilizer, soil amendments, and other plant amendments, regenerative agriculture, and the protection of clean water. Chosen projects must contain a component of outreach that achieves a timely dissemination of findings and their applicability to the production agricultural community or metropolitan fertilizer users.
Eligible Expenses
- Eligible expenses are costs that are directly related to the proposed project.
- Personnel costs including salaries,
- Fringe benefit expenses, including FICA/ Medicare, retirement, and health insurance,
- Professional and technical services specified in the approved work plan,
- Equipment, tools, materials, and supplies specific to the project and incoming freight charges for them.
- Publication costs and expenses related to printing. copying.
- In-state transportation and travel expenses such as lodging, meals, and mileage of personnel directly involved in the project in the same manner and in no greater amount than provided for in the current Commissioner’s plan promulgated by the Commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant must meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for this grant opportunity. Applicants must:
- Be an organization. research entity. Individual business, or Tribal entity with agricultural research capabilities and authorized to do business in Minnesota.
- Propose a project with activities that include research, education, and technology transfer related to the production and application of fertilizer, soil amendments, and ocher plant amendments, regenerative arrays, and the protection of dean water. Chosen projects must contain a component of outreach that achieves a timely dissemination of findings and their applicability to the production agriculture community or metropolitan trotter users.
- Applicants must be in good standing with the State of Minnesota:
- No back tams owed.
- No defaults on Minnesota state-backed financing for the last seven years.
- Acceptable performance on past MBA grants.
- Compliant with current state regulations.
- Be appropriately licensed and authorized to conduct business m Minnesota.
- Not debarred or suspended from dong hardness with the State of Minnesota or the federal government
- No current principals have been conviction of felony financial crimes in the past 10 years. Principals include board members and staff who have access to grant funds.
- Examples of eligible applicants include but are not tented to the following entities with the requisite research captions
- Individuals
- Farmers/ farmer networks
- Researchers in private and public institutions of higher education
- Research institutions
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural businesses
- Nonprofit organizations
- Municipalities and local units of government
- Tribal research institution
- Tribal Sovereign Nations.
For more information, visit MDA.
