Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NIFA SRGP 011275
The Special Research Grants Program Potato Breeding Research opportunity (USDA NIFA SRGP 011275) is a discretionary grant program run by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under CFDA 10.200. Its core aim is to fund research that directly advances potato varietal development and testing for commercial production. In practical terms, the program is looking for projects that move improved potato varieties closer to real-world adoption, meaning the work should be tied to breeding pipelines and outcomes that matter to producers, processors, and the broader potato industry.
The scope centers on "varietal development and testing," defined here as research using either conventional breeding methods and/or biotechnological genetics to create improved potato varieties. Importantly, supporting activities like evaluation, screening, and testing are explicitly encouraged, but they must clearly serve the larger goal of variety development. That typically means field and laboratory work that helps select, validate, and advance breeding lines (for example, screening for disease resistance, stress tolerance, yield stability, quality traits, or processing characteristics), rather than stand-alone studies that do not feed back into developing and releasing better cultivars.
Eligibility is restricted to specific institution types tied to the State-Federal agricultural research and education system. Applications may be submitted only by State agricultural experiment stations; land-grant colleges and universities; research foundations established by land-grant colleges and universities; colleges and universities that receive funds under the 1962 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Act; and accredited schools or colleges of veterinary medicine, when the purpose is to facilitate or expand ongoing State-Federal food and agricultural research, extension, or education programs. While only these eligible entities can apply as the lead applicant, award recipients are allowed to subcontract to organizations that are not eligible to apply, as long as those partners are needed to carry out the project. The notice also emphasizes that eligibility is not flexible: if an applicant does not meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline, the proposal can be excluded from consideration, or even if reviewed, NIFA will not make an award.
Key administrative details include an original application closing date of 2025-08-14 and an award ceiling of $1,500,000. The opportunity was created on 2025-07-24. The funding instrument type is a grant, and the funding activity category is agriculture. Expected awards are not specified in the provided source information, which usually means applicants should not assume a particular number of funded projects and should treat competitiveness as potentially high.
Overall, this opportunity is designed for established research programs with the capacity to breed, evaluate, and advance potato varieties, and it strongly signals that proposed experiments, data collection, and testing need to be integrated into a coherent breeding and selection strategy that supports eventual commercial production.Apply for USDA NIFA SRGP 011275
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Special Research Grants Program Potato Breeding Research" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.200.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-24.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-08-14. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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