At COP31, Environment State Minister Sheikh Faridul Islam said the money pledged by the CIF will go to cutting disaster risk on the coast and improving the lives of people hit by climate change.
LivestockThe Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program has 147 tentative awards worth $57,424,130, pending congressional allotment, to help independent processors expand and give ranchers more local outlets.
LivestockNearly 30 dairy and farm organisations have asked USDA to drop a new rule requiring the four Dairy Business Innovation centres to match 25% of their federal funding, saying the universities and agencies that host them cannot pay it.
AgribusinessUSDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is funding about 609 state projects in 56 states and territories through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, for fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture and nursery crops.
AgribusinessThe Food Safety and Growth Initiative's second intake offers up to $75,000 a project for equipment, traceability and process improvements to businesses with fewer than 100 staff; applications open on 19 October.
LivestockThe state agriculture department will award $25,000 of federal money, reimbursing 80% of approved prevention costs for producers in the wolf range.
EnvironmentThe Micro Renewable Energy Federation welcomed reports that Ireland's 6 October budget will add battery-storage grants and extend solar support, after farm solar grants under TAMS 3 rejected 90 percent of applicants.
The Advancing Markets for Producers money from NRCS will go out as direct grants of $20,000 to $300,000 to help growers sell crops raised with soil-health practices.
The bank has stopped new applications for its loan-plus-grant scheme for historically disadvantaged farmers for the rest of 2026/27, after demand outstripped the R325 million annual grant.
A new Farm to Stay Grant Program opening in November will help US farmers and ranchers turn working farms into overnight stays or on-farm experiences, as farm-stay earnings grow.
