Closed · USDA-FAS-TASC-2026 · CFDA 10.604 · Discretionary

2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops

Federal grant opportunity posted by Foreign Agricultural Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $9M
Award range
Closed
Status
June 6, 2025
Close date
20
Expected awards

The verdict

2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops is a closed discretionary listing from Foreign Agricultural Service that offered Up to $9,000,000 across 20 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 138 other opportunities from Foreign Agricultural Service.

up to $9M
award range
Closed
application status
20
expected awards
10.604
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops is closed (last close June 6, 2025). The parent program page for CFDA 10.604 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Foreign Agricultural Service still indexes 138 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed June 6, 2025

Posted Apr 1 Closes Jun 6

Est. Total Funding

$9,000,000

Expected Awards

20

Instrument

Grant

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to U.S. entities to provide funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · USDA-FAS-TASC-2026

Grants.gov marks 2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Agriculture (AG). This eligibility-code string dominates the Foreign Agricultural Service book (104 peers, 75% of 139).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 10.604

Emergency Watershed Protection Program

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Agency Contact

Curt Alt Email: curt.alt@usda.gov Phone: (202) 690–4784

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What to do next

2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 10.604 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Emergency Watershed Protection Program indexes 1 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Foreign Agricultural Service lists 138 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

Disclaimer: This information is sourced from Grants.gov and SAM.gov and is for informational purposes only. Opportunity details, deadlines, and eligibility requirements change frequently. Always verify current information directly on Grants.gov before applying. PlainGrants is not affiliated with any federal agency.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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