Closed · USDA-AMS-TM-DBI-G-25-0008 · CFDA 10.176 · Mandatory

Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2025

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

$690K-$3.5M
Award range
Closed
Status
September 9, 2025
Close date
4
Expected awards

The verdict

Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2025 is a closed mandatory listing from Agricultural Marketing Service that offered $690,000 -- $3,450,000 across 4 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 123 other opportunities from Agricultural Marketing Service.

$690K-$3.5M
award range
Closed
application status
4
expected awards
10.176
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program is closed (last close September 9, 2025). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Agricultural Marketing Service still indexes 123 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 September 9, 2025

Posted Jul 14 Closes Sep 9

Est. Total Funding

$11,040,000

Expected Awards

4

Instrument

Grant

Description

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 only from the existing four initiatives of the Dairy Business Innovation (DBI) Initiatives program: the California State University Fresno Foundation, the University of Tennessee, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, and the University of Wisconsin. These initiatives serve to:Diversify dairy product markets to reduce risk and develop higher value uses for dairy products,Promote business development that diversifies farmer income through processing and marketing innovation, andEncourage the use of regional milk production.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · USDA-AMS-TM-DBI-G-25-0008

Grants.gov marks Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program 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. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Agriculture (AG). This eligibility-code string dominates the Agricultural Marketing Service book (48 peers, 39% of 124).

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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Agency Contact

DBI Grant Program Questions: IPPGrants@usda.gov; Grants.gov Questions: support@grants.gov or 1-800-518-4726. IPPGrants@usda.gov

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What to do next

Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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