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title: USDA Value-Added Producer Grant
description: The Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program helps agricultural producers enter value-added activities to generate new products, create and expand marketing opportunities, and increase producer income.
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Federal Grants

# USDA Value-Added Producer Grant

The Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program helps agricultural producers enter value-added activities to generate new products, create and expand marketing opportunities, and increase producer income.

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## $31 Million AVAILABLE in funding for ranchers and Farmers across America!

The Value Added Producer Grant program helps agricultural producers enter into value added activities related to the processing and/or marketing of bio-based, value-added products. Generating new products, creating and expanding marketing opportunities, and increasing producer income are the goals of this program. 

### Funding Overview

**Program Funding:** Approximately $31 million in total available funding.

**Maximum Grant Amount:** Planning Grants up to $75,000; Working Capital Grants up to $250,000.

**Matching Funds Requirements:** Cost share match requirement of 100 percent of the grant amount required for all applications.

### Eligible Applicants 

- Independent producers
- Agricultural producer groups
- Farmer- or rancher-cooperatives
- Majority-controlled producer-based business ventures

 You may receive priority if you are:

- Beginning farmer or rancher
- Socially-disadvantaged farmer or rancher
- Small or medium-sized farm
- Ranch structured as a family farm
- Farmer or rancher cooperative
- Proposing a mid-tier value chain

### Eligible Activities

Grant and matching funds can be used for planning activities or for working capital expenses related to producing and marketing a value-added agricultural product. Examples of planning activities include conducting feasibility studies and developing business plans for processing and marketing the proposed value-added product.

Examples of working capital expenses include:

- Processing costs
- Marketing and advertising expenses
- Some inventory and salary expenses

Deadline

May 11, 2023

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