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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative · USDA · Active NOFO · mid band

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

$100K–$3M
Typical award range
11
Indexed opportunities
2
Open now
USDA
Administering agency
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative ranks #47 of 504, #1 of 51 within USDA, and #11 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 10.310 is an active Agriculture program with 11 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 2 are open for application.

$100K–$3M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
December 31
next application deadline
$15.0 million
largest award ceiling indexed
10%
of the catalog is Agriculture

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative · midpack active desk (#293/502 by ceiling)

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative lands midpack on published ceilings (42nd percentile; rank #293 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative vs programs with listed funding ceilings

Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling

$3,000,000 Top 58% higher than 42% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-07-30

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 10.310 · USDA VOL-STEADY · #47/504

VOL-STEADY · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-STEADY 11 indexed
  • TOP-DECILE #47/504
  • PHOTO-FINISH Energy Storage Techno… · 81.117
  • NOFO-OPEN 2 open of 20 listed
  • CEIL-MILLION $100K–$3M
  • ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
  • BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 11 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Nearest Grants.gov-volume peer outside Agriculture: Energy Storage Technologies (CFDA 81.117) (±0 indexed rows)

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 10.310

VOL-STEADY · #47/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±0 row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

Engineering Grants · busiest319Public Safety Partn… · near13Agriculture and Foo… · this …11Energy Storage Tech… · near11Economic Adjustment… · near9Staffing for Adequa… · near9Plant and Animal Di… · quiet…0
Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around Agriculture and Food Research Initiative

Engineering Grants · busiestPublic Safety Partn… · nearAgriculture and Foo… · this listingEnergy Storage Tech… · nearEconomic Adjustment… · nearStaffing for Adequa… · nearPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole

Funding posture

Steady solicitations at mid-scale funding

Mid-range ceiling ($100,000 to $3.0 million) plus an active Grants.gov book (11 indexed rows) for Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. Open share on the recent slice: 10% (2/20). This is a working competition desk, not a dormant catalog stub.

Assistance Listing text · USDA

Competitive grants supporting fundamental and applied research, education, and extension in food and agricultural sciences.

Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (2 doors: Educational Institution, Nonprofit Organization). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set.

Educational Institution Nonprofit Organization

Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 10.310

97% of the 78 indexed listings under CFDA 10.310 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Agriculture and Food Research Initiative typically uses to move money. 82% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$4.5 billion across 72 listings (avg $61.8 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
264,001,730 across 18 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 10.310, 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 10.310

Only 2 of 78 indexed listings under CFDA 10.310 are open (3%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $130,000 to $40.0 million (308×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 95% of listings carry the Agriculture (AG) funding-activity code.

Open vs archived (indexed book)
2 open · 76 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$5.0 million (48 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.

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What to do next

CFDA 10.310: 11 indexed opportunities · 2 open on the recent slice.

  • Start with the open listing USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134 (closes December 31, 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: Minority Serving Institutions Digital and Tec… (11.022). Compare program

SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.

Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants

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