Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA FBMB 006247
The Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program (FBMB) is a discretionary USDA program administered through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) that funds projects aimed at strengthening the business and financial management capacity of U.S. agricultural producers. At its core, the opportunity supports work that helps farmers and ranchers make better management decisions by improving their understanding of farm finances, business planning, and benchmarking practices. A second, equally important purpose is to support the establishment and ongoing maintenance of a national farm financial management database that is publicly available, so producers, educators, researchers, and advisors can use aggregated information to compare performance and identify practical pathways to improvement.
FBMB emphasizes two connected outcomes: building producer knowledge and maintaining a national benchmarking resource. On the producer side, projects are expected to improve farm management knowledge and skills, which can include training, education, technical assistance, and tools that help producers interpret financial statements, evaluate enterprise profitability, understand cost structures, manage risk, and use benchmarking results to guide operational changes. On the database side, funded efforts support the collection, standardization, validation, and dissemination of farm financial and management data in a way that protects confidentiality while still producing useful public insights. The intent is a durable, national-level dataset that enables meaningful comparisons across commodities, regions, and farm types and that ultimately drives better farm-level decision-making.
Eligibility is broad and specifically defined in statute (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)(7)). Eligible applicants include state agricultural experiment stations; colleges and universities; university research foundations; other research institutions and organizations; federal agencies; national laboratories; private organizations or corporations; individuals; and partnerships or groups made up of two or more of those entity types. This wide eligibility scope is designed to encourage collaboration among academia, government, nonprofits, and industry, especially for projects that require coordinated data systems, producer outreach networks, and technical expertise in farm finance, data governance, and extension education.
From the published opportunity details, the program is listed under CFDA 10.319 and uses the grant funding instrument. The opportunity number is USDA NIFA FBMB 006247, with an original closing date of April 17, 2017, and a creation date of March 6, 2017. The award ceiling shown is $500,000. While the notice references expected awards, the specific number is not provided in the source text included here.
In practical terms, the FBMB program is designed to strengthen the infrastructure and know-how that underpins farm financial benchmarking in the United States. It supports both the human side of farm business management (training producers to understand and apply financial information) and the systems side (creating and sustaining a national, publicly accessible database that can inform better decisions). The overall public benefit is improved farm financial resilience and management performance through better information, better tools, and better comparisons grounded in real operational data.Apply for USDA NIFA FBMB 006247
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants Program (FBMB)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.319.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-03-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-04-17. (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 $500,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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