Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2026
- Award ceiling
- $2,300,000 – $3,450,000
- Closes
- Dec 1, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-01
Awards $2,300,000 – $3,450,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 1, 2026.
In one sentence
Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2026 awards $2,300,000 – $3,450,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 1, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $12,650,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,450,000In the FY 2025 application cycle, AMS funded four applications from the existing initiatives awarding a total of $11,040,000.
- Award floor
- $2,300,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Dec 1, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 30, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- Diversify dairy product markets to reduce risk and develop higher value uses for dairy products · Promote business development that diversifies farmer income through processing and marketing innovation · Encourage the use of regional milk production · Equipment and infrastructure activities
- 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.
Source wording: “In the FY 2025 application cycle, AMS funded four applications from the existing initiatives awarding a total of $11,040,000.”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 only from the existing four initiatives of the Dairy Business Innovation (DBI) Initiatives program: the…
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What can the money be used for?
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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
- Yes
What comparable notices state
67 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Agriculture, 67 of 82 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$375,000
- Median$1,000,000
- 75th percentile$2,200,000
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.
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- $2,300,000 – $3,450,000 per recipient. The source states: “In the FY 2025 application cycle, AMS funded four applications from the existing initiatives awarding a total of $11,040,000.”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $12,650,000 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?
- Dec 1, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- Diversify dairy product markets to reduce risk and develop higher value uses for dairy products, Promote business development that diversifies farmer income through processing and marketing innovation, Encourage the use of regional milk production, Equipment and infrastructure activities, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
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