Funding source comes equipped with project inspiration

The Southern Region of USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program will be accepting pre-proposals for on-farm research and education grants built around sustainable agriculture until June 1. That date is also the deadline for pre-proposals for graduate student projects, and June 4 is the pre-proposal deadline for professional development programs that focus on sustainable agriculture.

USDA’s SARE website has a searchable database that can serve as an idea generator for nonprofit agricultural support groups, grad students and Extension units wondering if a research or education project they have in mind is something SARE might consider for funding. For example, if you use the search engine to check up on projects SARE has funded in North Carolina, you’ll find the topic list includes conservation tillage and cover cropping, heating systems for greenhouses,  heirloom tomatoes, pastured pork, wine industry by-products, marketing farm commodities directly to consumers and several other longstanding niches for SAES Extension and research.

Posted April 30, 2008 04:35 PM

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