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U.S. Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA) is accepting applications for the FY 2025 Risk Management Education Partnership Agreements (RMEPP). The total funding available is $2 million with individual award amounts ranging from $5,000 to $250,000; no matching funds are required. Applications are due March 11, 2025.

What is the purpose of RMEPP?

The purpose of this competitive program is to deliver crop insurance education and risk management training to U.S. agricultural producers to assist them in identifying and managing production, marketing, legal, financial, and human risk. The program gives priority to: (1) educating producers of crops currently not insured under Federal crop insurance, specialty crops, and underserved commodities, including livestock and forage; and (2) providing collaborative partnerships to develop and deliver crop insurance education and other risk management training.

The goal of this program is to help producers improve their use of financial management, farm financial benchmarking, crop insurance, marketing contracts, and other risk management tools.

Who is eligible to apply for this program?

• City or township governments
• County governments
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS (other than institutions of higher education)
• Private institutions of higher education
• Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education
• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
• Small businesses
• Special district governments
• State governments

What are the project priorities for this program?

RMA is seeking projects that address one or more of the five (5) areas of risk described as Production, Legal, Financial, Marketing or Human Risk. This funding year’s priorities are as follows.

Top Priorities include:

• Whole-Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) and Micro-Farm Training
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Hurricane Insurance Protection - Wind Index Endorsement (HIP-WI) Tropical Storm Endorsement
• Organic and Specialty Crops, including Fire Insurance Protection - Smoke Index (FIP-SI) Endorsement
• Local Foods and Urban Agriculture, including opportunities for Historically Underserved Producers

Other agency priorities include all livestock products; Crop Insurance 101; biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel; controlled environment; rainfall index insurance, including pasture, rangeland, forage (PRF)/annual forage/apiculture; and record keeping: individual farm production and financials.

What are the RMEPP funding levels?

Individual award amounts may range from $5,000 to $250,000.  With a total funding availability of $2 million, the agency expects to make 10 award(s).

There is no cost share or matching funds requirement for this program.

What is the application timeline? 

Applications must be submitted March 11, 2025 by 11:59pm ET. 

Applicants should propose projects for eighteen (18) months in duration.

The agency anticipates making selections by April 2025 and expects to execute awards by September 1, 2025.

The full Notice of Funding Opportunity can be found here.

Morrison has extensive experience writing successful applications for clients through this program. For more information on this grant or how to apply with Morrison’s assistance, please contact the Morrison Grants Team by email at grants@morrisonco.net or call us at 530-893-4764.