Proposals to enhance the nation's delivery and adoption of conservation measures are due Feb. 7, 2020. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will invest $35 million in grants for projects that target agricultural producers in multiple states, including tribal, socially disadvantaged, limited-resource or beginning farmers and ranchers as well as veteran farmers or ranchers.

“Our top priority is delivering excellent customer service to all of the nation’s farmers, ranchers and forest landowners, and these grants are an important tool for reaching underserved communities,” NRCS Chief Matthew Lohr said. “Through these partnerships we will be better equipped to expand our reach and add to our customer base those producers seeking to implement conservation.”

NRCS will rank proposals with an emphasis placed on projects that leverage private resources and that better enable the staff of NRCS and conservation partners to deliver conservation assistance.

Eligible applicants include tribal governments, universities, nonprofit organizations and individuals.

NRCS is accepting proposals in two different categories:

NRCS is establishing a competitive process for determining how most national level outreach and mutual partnership agreements will be awarded. The process for applying to state-level agreements remains unchanged.

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