Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2025
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-AMS-TM-SCBGP-G-25-0004
- Agency
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Agricultural Marketing Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Agriculture
- Eligible applicants
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- State Governments
- Points of contact
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), is requesting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). The grant opportunity seeks to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops, which include fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, horticulture, and nursery crops. Eligible applicants are state departments of agriculture in the 50 states, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. Key objectives include leveraging efforts to market and promote specialty crops, assisting producers with research and development, expanding availability and access to specialty crops, and addressing challenges confronting specialty crop producers. Applications must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on July 7, 2025.
The total available funding is approximately $72.9 million, with each state eligible to receive a base grant of $243,001.17 plus additional funding based on specialty crop cash receipts and production acreage. The project performance period is from September 30, 2025, to September 29, 2028. Recipients are required to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), an active SAM.gov account, and must adhere to administrative requirements, including limiting administrative costs to 8 percent of total federal funds and providing annual progress reports.
Synopsis
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to award grants to eligible State departments of agriculture to carry out projects that enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops. The SCBGP assists State departments of agriculture in the 50 States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops by- (1) leveraging efforts to market and promote specialty crops; (2) assisting producers with research and development relevant to specialty crops; (3) expanding availability and access to specialty crops; (4) addressing local, regional, and national challenges confronting specialty crop producers; and (5) for such other purposes determined to be appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with specialty crop stakeholders and relevant State departments of agriculture. Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture). A State department of agriculture is the agency, commission, or department of a State government responsible for agriculture within the State.
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