Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA FBMB 006530
The FY 2018 Farm Business Management and Benchmarking (FBMB) Request for Applications is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), under CFDA 10.319. The program is designed to strengthen the business and financial management capacity of agricultural producers while also supporting the development of a national resource for farm financial benchmarking. In practical terms, this funding supports projects that help farmers and ranchers make better management decisions through improved financial literacy, planning, analysis, and the ability to compare their operations against credible benchmarks.
The opportunity has two closely related goals. First, it funds efforts that improve farm management knowledge and skills among producers, which can include training, technical assistance, tools, and educational programming focused on farm financial management. Second, it supports the establishment and ongoing maintenance of a national, publicly available farm financial management database. That database is intended to serve as a widely accessible benchmarking resource, allowing producers, educators, researchers, and service providers to analyze farm financial performance and identify management practices linked to stronger outcomes. The emphasis on a public database signals that funded projects are expected to contribute to a broader national infrastructure, not just a localized or proprietary dataset.
Eligibility is intentionally broad, as defined in 7 U.S.C. 450i(b)(7). Applications may be submitted by state agricultural experiment stations; colleges and universities; university research foundations; other research institutions and organizations; federal agencies; national laboratories; private organizations or corporations; individuals; or any group made up of two or more of these eligible entity types. This structure allows for a wide range of lead applicants, including academic, governmental, nonprofit, private-sector, and collaborative partnerships. In addition, award recipients are allowed to subcontract with organizations that are not themselves eligible to apply, as long as those partners are necessary to carry out the proposed work, which creates room to involve specialized technical vendors, data service providers, or community-based organizations as supporting partners.
Key administrative details include the funding opportunity title "FY 2018 Farm Business Management and Benchmarking RFA" and funding opportunity number "USDA NIFA FBMB 006530." The grant mechanism is a standard grant (funding instrument type: Grant), and the activity category is Agriculture. The maximum award size listed is $500,000 (award ceiling). The opportunity was created on February 20, 2018, with an original application closing date of April 20, 2018. The posting does not specify the exact number of expected awards in the provided source text, but applicants would typically use the ceiling amount and program scope to gauge the likely scale and competitiveness of funded projects.
Overall, this RFA is aimed at projects that combine direct producer-facing benefits (improved farm business management skills) with longer-term, field-wide benefits (a robust, publicly available benchmarking database). Competitive proposals in this space generally need to show how they will produce usable educational or decision-support outcomes for producers while also contributing meaningful, standardized financial data and analytical capacity to a national benchmarking effort.Apply for USDA NIFA FBMB 006530
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2018 Farm Business Management and Benchmarking RFA" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.319.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2018-02-20.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-04-20. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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