Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP) | USDA AMS TM FSMIP G 24 0014

Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA AMS TM FSMIP G 24 0014

The Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP) is a discretionary grant program run by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service that supports applied research designed to strengthen how U.S. food and agricultural products are marketed and moved through the supply chain. The central purpose is to explore and identify new market opportunities for U.S. agricultural goods while also encouraging practical research and innovation that improves the efficiency, effectiveness, and overall performance of the U.S. agricultural marketing system. In practice, this means FSMIP backs projects that produce usable findings for decision-makers and industry stakeholders, especially where there are clear barriers or bottlenecks limiting marketing success, transportation reliability, or distribution performance in domestic and international channels.

FSMIP is broadly focused on real-world marketing system challenges and opportunities. Funded projects can address issues across marketing, transportation, and distribution, such as improving market access, evaluating and reducing logistical constraints, assessing supply chain performance, modernizing market information and pricing transparency, and identifying strategies that help agricultural products reach buyers more efficiently. The program is oriented toward applied outcomes rather than purely theoretical work, so competitive proposals typically emphasize measurable improvements, actionable recommendations, scalable tools, or tested approaches that can be adopted by state agencies, producers, shippers, handlers, wholesalers, retailers, or related partners.

Eligibility is primarily state-based, reflecting the program's federal-state structure. Eligible applicants include state departments of agriculture, state agricultural experiment stations, and other appropriate state agencies located in the 50 States and certain U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions, including American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The term "other appropriate state agency" is defined broadly to include state universities, state colleges, and other state government entities such as departments of forestry, natural resources, or energy. State universities and colleges explicitly include land-grant institutions established under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, as well as tribal colleges and universities that became land-grant institutions in 1994 under the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, plus other state-run colleges and universities. The opportunity also lists eligible applicant categories that include state governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and other eligible entities as specified in the notice.

For this specific funding opportunity, the opportunity number is USDA AMS TM FSMIP G 24 0014 and the CFDA (Assistance Listing) number is 10.156. Awards are issued as grants, with an award ceiling of $250,000 and an expected total of about 15 awards. The original application closing date for the round described is 2024-05-21, and the opportunity was created on 2024-03-21. Overall, FSMIP is best understood as a targeted research-and-innovation funding source for state and state-affiliated institutions that can demonstrate how their work will remove practical marketing system constraints, open new or improved markets, and strengthen the movement of U.S. agricultural products from producers to end users.

• The Agricultural Marketing Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.156.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.

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