Agriculture · Active
Agricultural Experiment Stations · USDA · Sparse NOFO · mega band
Agricultural Experiment Stations (CFDA 10.217) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$10M
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 1
- Open now
- USDA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Agricultural Experiment Stations ranks #85 of 504, #4 of 51 within USDA, and #3 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 10.217 is an active Agriculture program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 16 most recent listings shown here, 1 is open for application.
- $500K–$10M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- October 15
- next application deadline
- $750,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 10%
- of the catalog is Agriculture
Agricultural Experiment Stations · upper-band quiet listing (#132/502 by ceiling)
Agricultural Experiment Stations clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Agricultural Experiment Stations vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$10,000,000 Top 26% higher than 74% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-08-05
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 10.217 · USDA VOL-SPARSE · #85/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-EDU · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #85/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-OPEN 1 open of 16 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$10M
- ELIG-EDU Educational institution
- BOOK-FULL 16 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 10.217
VOL-SPARSE · #85/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestAgricultural Experi… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling
Agricultural Experiment Stations pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $10.0 million) with a sparse Grants.gov trail (1 indexed row). Large paper capacity, few public solicitations: watch the open flags on those scarce listings rather than expecting a steady NOFO cadence.
Assistance Listing text · USDA
Funds for research at land-grant colleges on problems related to agriculture, forestry, and rural life.
Campus applicant desk · Agriculture
Educational institutions are the sole printed applicant type for CFDA 10.217. Agricultural Experiment Stations reads as a campus Assistance Listing, not a civic or commercial open desk.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 10.217
100% of the 16 indexed listings under CFDA 10.217 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Agricultural Experiment Stations typically uses to move money. 50% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $116.7 million across 16 listings (avg $7.3 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 87 across 4 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 10.217, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Mostly archived listings · CFDA 10.217
Only 1 of 16 indexed listings under CFDA 10.217 are open (6%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($500,000–$750,000; 1.5×). 100% of listings carry the Agriculture (AG) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 1 open · 15 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $750,000 (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 10.217 1 Open
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program
Showing 10 of the 16 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 10.217: 1 indexed opportunities · 1 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing USDA-NIFA-CGP-011315 (closes October 15, 2026) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 51 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Investments for Public Works and Economic Dev… (11.300). 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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