The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) is pleased to announce the 2024 Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Grant Simplified Equipment Program.
Donor Name: Oregon Department of Agriculture
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This program is to assist Oregon agriculturalists to build resilience in the middle of the supply chain and strengthen local and regional food systems by creating new revenue streams for the state’s producers.
Equipment project activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Modernize processing and manufacturing equipment;
- Develop, customize, or install equipment that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, increases efficiency in water use, improves air and/or water quality, and/or meets one or more of USDA’s climate action goals;
- Enhance worker safety through adoption of new technologies or investment in equipment improvements; and
- Improve the capacity of entities to comply with federal, state, and local food safety requirements.
Funding Information
- Award amounts: Grants from $10,000 – $100,000.
- Grant funds will be available for projects within a one-year time and cannot be expended before a project initiation date is given by the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Eligible Products
Funds will support expanded capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, including specialty crops, dairy, grains for human consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, excluding meat, poultry, and wild caught seafood. This program is intended to provide similar support provided in other USDA funding for meat and poultry processing, but for the non-meat and poultry sectors.
Eligible Organizations
The following organizations can submit projects that aim to enhance the production and competitiveness of Oregon’s specialty crop industries:
- Agricultural producers or processors, or groups of agricultural producers and processors
- Nonprofit organizations operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities such as processing, aggregation, distribution of targeted agricultural products
- Local government entities operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities such as processing, aggregation, distribution of targeted agricultural products
- Tribal governments operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities such as processing, aggregation, distribution of targeted agricultural products.
- Institutions such as schools, universities, or hospitals bringing producers together to establish cooperative or shared infrastructure or invest in equipment that will benefit multiple producers middle-of-the-supply-chain activities such as processing, aggregation, distribution of targeted agricultural product.
Ineligible Products
- Meat
- Poultry
- Wild-caught seafood
- Exclusively animal feed and forage products
- Fiber
- Landscaping products
- Tobacco
- Dietary supplements
- Hemp
Exclusions
- Grant funds will not be awarded for projects that work with meat, poultry or other eligible activities;
- Applicants are allowed to apply for either Infrastructure or Simplified Equipment Only Grants, not both; and
- Grant funds will not be awarded for projects that do not meet the matching requirements.
For more information, visit ODA.