Value-Added Producer Grants from USDA

Would you like to try making value-added products but lack the funds to do so?  Then this USDA grant may be for you.

Grants may be used for planning activities and for working capital for marketing value-added agricultural products and for farm-based renewable energy. Eligible applicants are independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures.

Since the beginning of the program, 950 grants have been awarded with 2008 recipients ranging from Morning Star Organic Farm to Blue Sage Farm.

An interesting success story is Amazing Grains who used a grant to develop, then market gluten-free flour made from Indian rice grass.

For more information about how to apply, check out the guidelines here.

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3. Grants for Gardens

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