NYFC Young Farmer Grants – Apply Today
They National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) Will Again Offer Young Farmer Grants in 2021
In 2020 The National Young Farmers Coalition (Young Farmers) launched a new NYFC young farmer grant program to help young and beginning farmers and ranchers start up and grow their businesses.
Thanks to support from Chipotle we are offering $5,000 NYFC young farmer grants to 50 young farmers and ranchers across the country. Young Farmer Grants can be used to support everyday needs from infrastructure projects, operating costs, and professional development, to off-farm expenses like childcare, housing, and student loan debt. The funds could also be used to get that extra boost to start up a new operation.
The National Young Farmers Coalition is excited to announce year two of the Young Farmer Grant Program!
In 2021 we will be offering 50 grants to a new cohort of young farmers and ranchers–forty-five awards will go to businesses already in operation, and five to projects starting in 2021. This year we have expanded the program to be able to offer grants to farmers and ranchers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, in addition to the 50 states and Washington D.C.
Click the button below to see a full list of eligibility and participation requirements.
Learn More and Apply for NYFC Young Farmer Grants Today!
These grants are available to farmers of all races and gender identities. To ensure that our grants are contributing to ending inequity in access to agricultural careers, we commit to providing a minimum of 50% of our grants to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, and 50% of grants to female-identifying, non-binary, and trans farmers. These are not mutually exclusive identity categories and should not be understood as adding up to 100% of available grants.
Read more and apply here! Applications are also available in Spanish.
Applications close on January 15, 2021 (3:00pm ET). We will also be hosting a series of Q&A calls for interested applicants. You can register to join a Q&A session here.
We hope you will apply, and we encourage to you to share this opportunity with any farmers or ranchers in your network who you think may be interested. Feel free to reach out to me (faith@youngfarmers.org) with any questions!
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I was looking forward to this program only to find out there was an actual age cap for applicants. I find that very unsatisfying to read as a beginner farmer myself and just reaching the age of 40 as of this year. Will this program offer any grant services for beginner farmers who are passed the “Young” age requirements? That would be really beneficial since there is already a hard chance of getting grants for start-up farming businesses.