NCR-SARE Announces 2009 Farmer Rancher Grant Call for Proposals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2009

The 2009 North Central Region - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) Farmer Rancher Grant Call for Proposals is now available online at http://sare.org/ncrsare/cfp.htm

Farmers and ranchers in the North Central Region are invited to submit grant proposals for projects to explore sustainable agriculture solutions to problems on the farm or ranch. Proposals should show how farmers and ranchers plan to use their own innovative ideas to explore sustainable agriculture options and how they will share project results.

Projects should emphasize research or education/demonstration. Grants can range from $6,000 for individual farmers up to $18,000 for groups of 3 or more farmers. NCR-SARE expects to fund about 50 projects in the twelve-state North Central Region with this call.

The deadline for proposals is Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact Joan Benjamin, NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant Program Coordinator, at jbenjamin2@unl.edu, (402)472-0809 or (800)529-1342. Or contact Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, Illinois SARE Coordinator, at cvnghgrn@illinois.edu, (217)968-5512.

The NCR has funded more than 700 farmer rancher grants worth more than $4,300,000 since the inception of this program.

Information about Illinois projects and other info about the Farmer Rancher Grant program can be found at http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/smallfarm/sare.