The Middle of the Supply Chain Grants will give:

  • Grants to middle of the supply chain food and farm businesses who are supporting or providing regional food distribution and aggregation, processing and packaging of fresh produce, grains, dry beans, and other legumes and/or value added products for wholesale markets.

  • Grants will only fund middle of the supply chain activities and projects that will market products to wholesale markets such as schools, institutions, grocers, and support other intermediary markets such as food hubs, post-harvest and processing facilities, or other distribution networks.


Infrastructure Grant

Infrastructure Grants will range from $100,000 up to $1 million. Grants can fund capital investments such a construction, equipment (e.g. delivery vehicles, frozen or refrigerates storage, value-added, food processing equipment, or other equipment for middle-of-the-supply-chain activities), and building renovations. Infrastructure Grants can also fund facility design or engineering, staff time, modernizing systems (e.g. tracking, storage, information technology, etc.), plan development (e.g. Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan), and market development. A match is required for Infrastructure Grants and starts at 50% of the total project cost. However, if the main applicant qualifies as underserved, the match requirement will be reduced to 25% of the total project cost.

Pre-Proposals were due February 28th and are now closed. The grants for Iowa's RFSI have been fully allocated. There will not be another application period.

See the full list of grant recipients here.

Equipment Only Grant

Timeline

Equipment-Only Grants can range from $10,000 up to $100,000. This grant can only fund equipment. Equipment may be new, used, or refurbished. 10% match is required for Equipment-Only Grants.

Examples of Equipment Grants include, but are not limited to: equipment that expands capacity and infrastructure for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally- and regionally-produced food products, including specialty crops, grains for human consumption, aquaculture, and other value-added food products.

Pre-proposals were due March 8th and are now closed. The grants for Iowa's RFSI have been fully allocated. There will not be another application period.

See the full list of grant recipients here.

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