Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
Department Of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity was renamed as the Advancing Markets for Producers initiative in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The initiative aims to achieve the following outcomes through a variety of pilot projects: • Prioritize producer support to develop sustained methods for expansion of markets for American agricultural products; prioritizing new markets, improving supply chains, and enable direct-to consumer sales, thereby improving economic opportunities for farmers;
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Helps farmers and landowners adopt eco-friendly practices to boost their income. Provides incentives for implementing climate-smart production methods and developing markets for these products.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Funding for pilot projects (typically lasting one to five years) that finance partnerships to support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities. Benefits include technical and financial assistance for producers to implement climate-smart production practices, expand markets, leverage greenhouse gas benefits, and develop innovative methods for quantification, monitoring, reporting, and verification of GHG benefits. The program invested over $3 billion across approximately 140 projects.
Who Is Eligible?
Business Size: small, medium, large
Industries: agriculture, forestry
Region: United States
Demographics: underserved producers, minority-serving institutions, Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Tribal governments, Tribal organizations
Other Criteria: public entities (County, city or township governments, Special district governments, State governments, Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education), private entities (Small businesses, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits, Private institutions of higher education), Federally recognized Native American Tribal governments, Native American Tribal organizations, Projects must involve small and/or underserved producers, Proposals for pilot projects focused on on-farm, on-ranch, or forest production of climate-smart commodities and associated GHG benefits, Projects encouraged to include early adopters
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Submit project proposals on Grants.gov by the appropriate funding pool deadline.
- 🌐Application Portal
- https://www.grants.gov
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 📅Key Dates
- May 6, 2022First Funding Pool DeadlineJune 10, 2022Second Funding Pool Deadline
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- AD-1026 (HELC and WC Certification)
- CCC-902 (Farm Operating Plan)
- AD-2047 (Customer Data Worksheet)
- CPA-052 (Environmental Evaluation)
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- costs associated with implementing climate-smart production practices
- technical assistance for project producers
- measuring and verifying carbon and GHG benefits
- developing markets for climate-smart commodities
- 🚫Ineligible Expenses
- implementation of the same practice on the same land funded by other USDA programs
- 💳Payment Model
- mixed
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- quarterly
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- Progress reports and updates on farm, tract, and field data
- Updates on project summary data
- Measurement/Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MMRV) methods
- Other periodic updates on supplemental data
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards in a fiscal year
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Acknowledgment of federal funding and use of agency logos
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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FAQFrequently Asked Questions
This program is available to small, medium, large businesses in agriculture, forestry industries located in United States.
This program offers funding up to $100,000,000 (minimum $250,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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