Closed · USDA-AMS-TM-SCBGP-G-26-0004 · CFDA 10.170 · Mandatory

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2026

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

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
June 8, 2026
Close date
56
Expected awards

The verdict

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2026 is a closed mandatory listing from Agricultural Marketing Service that offered Varies by applicant across 56 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 123 other opportunities from Agricultural Marketing Service.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
56
expected awards
10.170
CFDA program

Recently closed NOFO

This listing closed on June 8, 2026. Watch CFDA 10.170 (Specialty Crop Block Grant Program) for the next funding cycle. Historical award band was Varies by applicant.

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 8, 2026

Posted Apr 13 Closes Jun 8

Est. Total Funding

$86,600,000

Expected Awards

56

Instrument

Grant

Description

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to award grants to eligible State departments of agriculture to carry out projects that enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops. The SCBGP assists State departments of agriculture in the 50 States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops by— (1) leveraging efforts to market and promote specialty crops; (2) assisting producers with research and development relevant to specialty crops; (3) expanding availability and access to specialty crops; (4) addressing local, regional, and national challenges confronting specialty crop producers; and (5) for such other purposes determined to be appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with specialty crop stakeholders and relevant State departments of agriculture. Specialty crops are fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture). A State department of agriculture is the agency, commission, or department of a State government responsible for agriculture within the State.

Public-sector applicant lane · Agricultural Marketing Service

Grants.gov lists only government / tribal / housing-authority applicant doors for Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill… (State governments). This is a public-sector corridor, not a general nonprofit open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Agriculture (AG). 32 other Agricultural Marketing Service listings share this eligibility-code string (26% of 124).

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State governments

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.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 10.170

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Agency Contact

Agricultural Marketing Service SCBlockGrants@usda.gov

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What to do next

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 10.170 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Specialty Crop Block Grant Program indexes 1 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Agricultural Marketing Service lists 123 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.

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