Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program (FBMB)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-NIFA-KFBMB-32830
- Agency
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Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- $200,000 to $450,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Agriculture
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is soliciting applications for the Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program with an application deadline of July 20, 2026, at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time. The program provides approximately $2 million in total funding, with individual awards ranging from $200,000 to $450,000 and an anticipated six awards. No matching funds are required, though cost-sharing is encouraged.
Eligible applicants include state agricultural experiment stations, colleges and universities, university research foundations, other research institutions, federal agencies, national laboratories, private organizations or corporations, individuals, and consortia of two or more of these entities. Award recipients may subcontract to ineligible organizations when necessary. Project periods must range from 12 to 36 months and may not exceed five years including no-cost extensions.
Projects must address at least one of five designated objectives: maintaining and expanding FINBIN (the national publicly available farm financial management database), establishing collaborative farm management educational programs, or developing farm management knowledge and skills. Projects must also employ at least one of six strategies including data collection research, cooperation development, technical assistance, profitability improvements, uncertainty management, and database access provision.
Applications must include a 10-page project narrative, logic model, timeline, data management plan, bibliography, and organizational commitment letters. The narrative must address introduction and rationale, project goals and outcomes, institutional capacity and partner roles, project sustainability, and centers of excellence justification where applicable. NIFA will conduct a two-stage review: administrative screening followed by peer review using weighted evaluation criteria across FINBIN maintenance and expansion (20 points), project implementation (20 points), evaluation activities (20 points), key personnel and organizational support (20 points), and budget (20 points). Indirect costs are capped at 30 percent of total federal funds awarded. Award effective dates must be no later than September 30, 2026. CFDA 10.319.
Synopsis
The FBMB program aims to strongly support innovative extension approaches and collaborative efforts to maintain and expand the publicly available national farm financial management database (FINBIN). Such efforts are needed to meet the challenges facing the Nation's agriculture and food systems. Farmers, farm managers, and individuals involved in production agriculture must be educated and prepared to work effectively across disciplines to solve agricultural and educational challenges. Meeting these challenges will require projects that are timely, strategic, creative, and multidisciplinary. The FBMB program supports all farmers, ranchers, and producers to develop farm management knowledge and skills that are consistent with the agriculture and food systems priorities of the USDA.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| USDA-NIFA-KFBMB-32830-Full-Announcement.html | HTML file |
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