Calling all producers! The Local Agriculture Marketing Program (LAMP) will receive a total of $130 million in competitive grant funding via supplemental American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funding. The following are open funding opportunities in 2022:
Value-Added Producer Grant Program
Create or expand value-added producer-owned businesses
Priority given to small and mid-sized family farms, beginning, veteran, and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative
Enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic products and to help mitigate the impacts of climate change