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The SAC program, Assistance Listing Number 10.200, supports projects that lead to expanded adaptation and increased acreage in the United States of alternative crops grown for food/feedstuff, oil, and feedstocks for industrial value-added products. Such crops are important to U.S. agriculture in that these can provide new and profitable cropping options in response to low commodity prices and changes in consumer demand for new agricultural-based products. Oilseed, grain, and feedstock crops have major uses in healthy human foods and animal feeds, as natural pest control when used as cover crops, and as a feedstock in industrial chemical manufacture and biofuel production. Grains/pseudocereals and legumes/pulses can play an important role in the cropping rotation for food/feedstuff and/or feedstock for industrial value-added purposes, as cover crops, and as habitat for pollinators.
Who can apply, from the official notice
Applicants for SAC 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. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s About Grants provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.
Colleges and universities (as defined in section 1404 of NARETPA, 7 U.S.C. 3103), other Federal agencies, and private sector entities are eligible to submit applications. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project.
Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/95dcb2c2-8501-4ad7-87da-9a472c69f9ec · Printed from grantme.click/grants/67c79d03-940f-4509-8f85-db9d684a2319
Within guidelines established for the program as described in the Competitive Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The most current NOFOs are available as follows:
Global Change Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring and Research Program (GC/UV-B):
https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/global-change-ultraviolet-radiation-monitoring-and-research-program
Special Research Grants Program Potato Breeding Research:
https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/potato-breeding-research
Match
None required (federal program listing).
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal year 2025: Phase I Award examples:
1. A Portable Situational Awareness Toolset for Wildfires Suppression and Team Management
2. Squalene Produced from US Soybeans
3. A Nickel-Binding Feed Additive for Improved Feed Efficiency & Productivity in Cattle
4. Cost-effective Monitoring Platform for Optimal Nutrient Application
5. Innovative Food Processing Utilizing Whole Apples to Produce a Novel Drink, Reducing Food Waste and Enhancing Nutritional Value
6. AMA: An AI-Driven Special Education Support Platform for Education in Rural Communities.
7. Induced polyploidization in larviparous oysters: Developing a commercially viable Hawaiian oyster
8. Consolidated Bioprocessing of Corn Stover to Ethanol Augmented by Spontaneous Particle Expansion Cotreatment
9. Improving Small Farm Profitability Using Directed Energy Weed Management
10. Cotton Picker Spindle Design and Manufacturing Processes
There were no FY25 Phase II awards issued.
