Blog posts by Willow Aray
Written by Willow Aray on Monday, May 1, 2023
In the coming months the USDA Agriculture Marketing Service will be releasing an RFP focusing on Pinpointed Organic Market Development as part of their Organic Transition Initiative. This program will develop new and expanded markets for targeted domestic organic products by providing more resources and market certainty for producers and processors transitioning to organic or initiating new organic production and processing capacity.
There will be approximately $75 million for grants and $25 million for commodity procurement. The goals of this project are:
To develop new and expanded…