USDA Bison Production and Marketing Grant Program FY 2025

FUNDING PROGRAM: USDA Bison Production and Marketing Grant Program Fiscal Year 2025 – Request for Applications.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER: USDA-AMS-TM-BPMGP-G-25-0001.

FUNDING AGENCIES: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).

OPPORTUNITY:

AMS requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Bison Production and Marketing Grant Program (BPMGP). The BPMGP is designed to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of bison and bison products in the United States through business and resource development, and the advancement of innovative solutions or approaches to support the long-term growth of the bison sector. The program will be implemented through the award of one or more grants to entities who will make subawards to implement the goals of the program.

DESCRIPTION:

AMS encourages applications intended to serve smaller farms and ranches, new and beginning farmers and ranchers, historically underserved producers, veteran producers, and/or underserved communities. For grants intending to serve these entities, applicants should engage and involve those beneficiaries when developing projects and applications. USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to mitigating or adapting to climate change in their project’s design and implementation.

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: 

Applicants must be based in the 50 States, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Eligible applicants include:

• Agricultural Businesses or Cooperatives
• Producer Networks or Associations
• Local Governments
• Nonprofit Corporations
• Economic Development Corporations
• Tribal Governments
• Federally chartered Tribal organizations

COST SHARING: None.

FUNDING AVAILABLE: $2 million subject to passage of a full appropriations act for FY 2025.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 26, 2025.