Agriculture · Active
Farm Operating Loans · USDA · Active NOFO · mid band
Farm Operating Loans (CFDA 10.156) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $5K–$400K
- Typical award range
- 12
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- USDA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Farm Operating Loans ranks #125 of 504, #17 of 51 within USDA, and #40 of 52 among Agriculture programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 10.156 is an active Agriculture program with 12 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 12 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $5K–$400K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $250,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 10%
- of the catalog is Agriculture
Farm Operating Loans · lower-band active desk (#461/502 by ceiling)
Farm Operating Loans sits below most listed ceilings (8th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Farm Operating Loans vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$400,000 Top 92% higher than 8% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2024-05-07
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 10.156 · USDA VOL-STEADY · #125/504
VOL-STEADY · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-SBIR · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 12 indexed
- UPPER-Q #125/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 12 listed
- CEIL-MID $5K–$400K
- ELIG-SBIR Small business
- BOOK-FULL 12 listed / 12 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 10.156
VOL-STEADY · #125/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestFarm Operating Loans · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Steady solicitations at mid-scale funding
Mid-range ceiling ($5,000 to $400,000) plus an active Grants.gov book (12 indexed rows) for Farm Operating Loans. Open share on the recent slice: 0% (0/12). This is a working competition desk, not a dormant catalog stub.
Assistance Listing text · USDA
Direct and guaranteed loans for farm operating expenses including seed, equipment, and family living costs.
Small-business applicant corridor · CFDA 10.156
Farm Operating Loans prints a for-profit small-business applicant door on SAM.gov. Treat this CFDA as a business-facing listing unless a live NOFO narrows the set further.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 10.156
100% of the 12 indexed listings under CFDA 10.156 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Farm Operating Loans typically uses to move money. 83% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $11.1 million across 11 listings (avg $1.0 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 180 across 8 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 10.156, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 10.156
None of the 12 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 10.156 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($100,000–$250,000; 2.5×). 100% of listings carry the Agriculture (AG) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 12 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $250,000 (12 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Agriculture (AG)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
USDA · administering agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm, food, nutrition, rural development, and conservation programs for communities and businesses.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 10.156
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
USDA-AMS-TM-FSMIP-G-22-0004
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
2015 Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program
Showing 10 of the 12 most recent listings (12 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 10.156: 12 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 51 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Promotion of the Humanities — Public Engageme… (45.149). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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