Agricultural Management Assistance Cost Share Program

Funding Opportunity Number: AMS-OCCSP-AMA-2015 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: AgricultureCFDA Number: 10.171Eligible Applicants State governmentsAgency Name: USDA-AMSClosing Date: Apr 06, 2015Award Ceiling: $500,000Expected Number of Awards: 16Creation Date: Mar 03, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The Agricultural Management Assistance Organic Certification Cost Share (AMA) is authorized under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (FCIA), as amended, (7 U.S.C. 1524). Under this authority, Congress authorizes the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide organic certification cost share assistance to certified organic operations (only producers) located in the following sixteen (16) States: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) administers the AMA using relevant sections of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 and the Uniform Grant Guidance, 2 CFR 200. AMS awards AMA funds to eligible State Agencies, which operate as a pass-through system, by accepting and approving their applications so they can issue reimbursements to certified organic operations for specific certification costs. In federal fiscal year 2015, the available funding for the AMA is appro...

Source: Grants.gov - March 4, 2015 Category: Research Tags: Agriculture Source Type: funding