Outreach and Assistance for Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program
- Award ceiling
- $250,000 – $1,500,000
- Closes
- Sep 10, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-06
Awards $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 10, 2026.
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agriculture
In one sentence
Outreach and Assistance for Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program awards $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 10, 2026.
Record fields
- Program pool (total)
- $23,800,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $1,500,000
- Award floor
- $250,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 10, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 4, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- outreach · technical assistance · education in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$23,800,000Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,500,000Who can apply?
level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity typesindustry
Source field: industries
demographic
Veteran farmers and ranchers
Source field: demographicsuse
education in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services, outreach, technical assistance
Source field: use of fundssize limit
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitclause text
Applicants for the OAVFR program must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award.…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Sep 10, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date
What can the money be used for?
3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
outreachtechnical assistanceeducation in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- No
Who has received this funding?
231 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
231 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLINT RIVER FRESH INC | Not stated | $737,191 | 2023 |
| JUST CITIES INSTITUTE | Not stated | $734,715 | 2025 |
| GOODWILL OF COLORADO | Not stated | $734,637 | 2023 |
| CROATAN INSTITUTE | Not stated | $731,807 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | Not stated | $730,585 | 2022 |
| THE WIDGET BUSINESS TRAINING CO | Not stated | $729,477 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $727,283 | 2025 |
| HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | Not stated | $726,016 | 2022 |
| KHUBA INTERNATIONAL, INC. | Not stated | $723,304 | 2024 |
| NORTH SHORE EVP | Not stated | $722,161 | 2022 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $720,621 | 2021 |
| QUIVIRA COALITION | Not stated | $719,268 | 2023 |
| WHITAKER SMALL FARM GROUP, INC. | Not stated | $717,330 | 2023 |
| TAOS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | Not stated | $716,149 | 2023 |
| THE GOOD ACRE | Not stated | $711,411 | 2023 |
| ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $708,184 | 2024 |
| THE AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST | Not stated | $707,787 | 2023 |
| TEXAS SMALL FARMERS & RANCHERS/COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION (CBO) | Not stated | $706,972 | 2023 |
| WEALTH WATCHERS INC. | Not stated | $703,740 | 2022 |
| MICHAEL FIELDS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE, INC. | Not stated | $703,714 | 2024 |
| NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION | Not stated | $702,024 | 2023 |
| SOUTHEAST RALEIGH VICINITY EMERGING | Not stated | $698,050 | 2023 |
| THE RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS | Not stated | $692,291 | 2023 |
| THE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $690,000 | 2023 |
| IOWA VALLEY RC&D | Not stated | $689,454 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ES | Not stated | $687,176 | 2023 |
| AT EASE ORCHARD | Not stated | $686,020 | 2025 |
| FRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM | Not stated | $685,274 | 2024 |
| CAMP C.A.R.V.E.R. INSTITUTE | Not stated | $679,494 | 2024 |
| PCC FARMLAND TRUST | Not stated | $676,452 | 2025 |
| ARKANSAS LAND AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | Not stated | $675,000 | 2025 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $675,000 | 2019 |
| MICHIGAN INTEGRATED FOOD & FARMING SYSTEMS | Not stated | $674,761 | 2019 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $674,662 | 2023 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC | Not stated | $670,456 | 2022 |
| MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION OF COOPERATIVES | Not stated | $668,816 | 2022 |
| AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE | Not stated | $666,919 | 2021 |
| CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY, INC. | Not stated | $666,534 | 2023 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM | Not stated | $665,754 | 2019 |
| TEXAS AGRIFORESTRY SMALL FARMERS & RANCHERS | Not stated | $657,610 | 2023 |
| DAIRY GRAZING ALLIANCE, INC. | Not stated | $654,084 | 2021 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM | Not stated | $653,783 | 2021 |
| STAG VETS INC | Not stated | $653,698 | 2021 |
| SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI INC | Not stated | $649,746 | 2021 |
| COMMON GOOD CITY FARM | Not stated | $640,454 | 2022 |
| FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $638,372 | 2019 |
| GOLDEN TRIANGLE RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA, INC | Not stated | $636,915 | 2024 |
| THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY INC | Not stated | $635,653 | 2019 |
| TRI-COUNTY AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE | Not stated | $630,300 | 2023 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | Not stated | $629,204 | 2022 |
| NORTH SOUTH INSTITUTE, INC. | Not stated | $624,736 | 2023 |
| TILTH ALLIANCE | Not stated | $624,378 | 2025 |
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $623,189 | 2021 |
| ALABAMA A & M UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $621,641 | 2019 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE, INC. | Not stated | $615,145 | 2025 |
| FUTURE HARVEST INC | Not stated | $606,119 | 2021 |
| VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $605,385 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | Not stated | $602,966 | 2023 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY FOOD SECURITY COUNCIL | Not stated | $599,820 | 2022 |
| HOPE FOR SMALL FARM SUSTAINABILITY | Not stated | $596,747 | 2023 |
| OPERATION SPRING PLANT INC. | Not stated | $595,700 | 2021 |
| COMMUNITY THROUGH COLORS | Not stated | $594,396 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $594,301 | 2021 |
| POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST, INC. | Not stated | $593,037 | 2022 |
| IN HER SHOES, INCORPORATED | Not stated | $591,513 | 2024 |
| NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER | Not stated | $576,000 | 2023 |
| CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $566,148 | 2021 |
| TWO BROTHERS FARMS | Not stated | $566,004 | 2022 |
| THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC | Not stated | $549,946 | 2021 |
| OHIO ECOLOGICAL FOOD AND FARM ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $547,846 | 2022 |
| LANGSTON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $547,446 | 2019 |
| PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | Not stated | $543,296 | 2022 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT FARMING INITIATIVE | Not stated | $540,000 | 2022 |
| NEW MEXICO ACEQUIA ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $537,504 | 2023 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $537,504 | 2023 |
| THE KODIAK ARCHIPELAGO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | Not stated | $531,408 | 2021 |
| TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE | Not stated | $524,309 | 2021 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY LOCAL FOODS COALITION | Not stated | $521,480 | 2023 |
| CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS | Not stated | $484,223 | 2019 |
| COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, INC. | Not stated | $483,433 | 2022 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | Not stated | $472,500 | 2019 |
| SCF-OGRANIC FARMS LTD | Not stated | $453,600 | 2019 |
| KITCHEN FOOD VENTURES INC. | Not stated | $424,534 | 2021 |
| THE LEARNING CENTER AT THE EUCHEE BUTTERFLY FARM INC | Not stated | $405,000 | 2019 |
| ALABAMA A & M UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2018 |
| ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| ATHENS LAND TRUST INC | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY PRESERVATION | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| NEW MEXICO ACEQUIA ASSOCIATION | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| NORTH SOUTH INSTITUTE, INC. | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| RURAL DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| THE KKAC ORGANIZATION | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
62 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Agriculture, 62 of 76 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$300,000
- Median$1,000,000
- 75th percentile$2,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Who has won this programme before?
231 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
231 federal awards on file under assistance listing 10.443, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $1,500,000ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITYMS · FY2025
- $750,000BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNV · FY2025
- $750,000TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGEMA · FY2025
- $750,000FARMER VETERAN COALITIONTX · FY2025
- $750,000PATHSTONE CORPORATIONNY · FY2025
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $23,800,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Sep 10, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- outreach, technical assistance, education in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 231 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-06
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-07
Assistance listing10.443
The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.