Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA AMS TM DBI G 25 0008
The Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2025 is a mandatory USDA grant opportunity administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to support ongoing regional dairy business innovation efforts. For FY 2025, this funding round is limited to applications from the four existing, designated DBI initiatives only: the California State University Fresno Foundation, the University of Tennessee, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, and the University of Wisconsin. In other words, this is not an open competition for new applicants; it is a continuation-style funding opportunity restricted to these established initiative leads.
The program is designed to strengthen and modernize dairy-related businesses by helping the initiatives expand and improve dairy product markets, reduce market risk, and push toward higher-value uses of milk. A central theme is diversification: creating or growing new products, processing approaches, and market channels so dairy producers and processors are less dependent on a narrow set of commodity outcomes. The opportunity also emphasizes business development that can broaden farmer income through processing and marketing innovation, which can include efforts that help dairies and dairy businesses improve profitability, reach new buyers, differentiate products, or refine go-to-market strategies. Another stated goal is encouraging the use of regional milk production, reinforcing supply chains that keep milk moving into value-added or differentiated products within regions rather than relying solely on distant or consolidated processing and distribution pathways.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed as a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) under the agriculture activity category and is associated with CFDA/Assistance Listing number 10.176. The funding opportunity number is USDA AMS TM DBI G 25 0008. The agency expects to make four awards, aligning with the four eligible initiative organizations. The award ceiling is $3,450,000. The listed application closing date is September 9, 2025, and the opportunity record was created on July 14, 2025. Eligible applicants are categorized as "Others," but the eligibility is explicitly limited in the description to the four named DBI initiatives for this fiscal year.
Overall, this FY 2025 DBI funding opportunity is aimed at sustaining and advancing the work of the existing DBI initiative hubs so they can continue helping dairy businesses and producers innovate, diversify products and markets, build stronger processing and marketing capabilities, and expand regionally grounded milk utilization that supports more resilient dairy economies.Apply for USDA AMS TM DBI G 25 0008
- The Agricultural Marketing Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Program (DBI) Fiscal Year 2025" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.176.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-14.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-09-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,450,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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