North Central Region SARE Farmer Rancher Grant

Montana State University

Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) invites agricultural producers to apply for Farmer/Rancher grants up to $35,000. In this program, a producer and a technical advisor work together to develop a project that conducts both research and outreach on a sustainable agriculture topic. With the support and guidance of the technical advisor, producers must integrate research and education to conduct on-site/on-farm experiments to address social, environmental, and economic aspects of agricultural sustainability. Outreach activities may include on-farm/ranch demonstrations, farmer-to-farmer educational activities, and other approaches.

University Of Vermont

Grant program provides funds to farmers to explore innovative concepts in sustainable agriculture conducted through experiments, surveys, prototypes, on-farm demonstrations or other research and education techniques. Projects must be led by a farmer in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Vermont, or Washington, D.C. who collaborates with a technical advisor. Projects should explore an innovative practice and/or introduce an existing practice to a new audience of farmers, benefiting the project leader and other farmers in the region.

North Central Region - SARE

Partnership Grant Program, intended to foster cooperation between agriculture professionals and small groups of farmers and ranchers to catalyze on-farm research, demonstration, and education activities related to sustainable agriculture. Any agriculture/natural resource professional in the 12-state North Central region may apply.