NC AgVentures Offers Grant Opportunity for Family Farms
This is a great opportunity for any producer who is thinking of diversifying, improving, or expanding their farm operation.
This week's Ag Chat is offered by Matt Solomon, Associate Row Crop/Horticulture Agent at N.C. Cooperative Extension's Caswell County Center.
NC AgVentures, a NC State Extension program provides grants to NC farmers and non-profit community groups that work with family farms, for agricultural project ideas that will increase farm profits. The program, which is sponsored by the NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, will award a minimum of 50 grants to independent family farms. This is a great opportunity for any producer who is thinking of diversifying, improving, or expanding their farm operation.
Those who are wanting to apply should contact one of our Extension agents to discuss their ideas for the grant. Agents will have access to the application to give recommendations during the process. Click HERE to read more about the requirements for this grant.
This is a competitive grant program. Applications will be accepted from family farms in the following counties: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Iredell, Johnston, Lincoln, Martin, Mecklenburg, Nash, Northampton, Orange, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Union, Vance, Wake, Wayne, Wilson, Wilkes, Warren, and Yadkin.
NC AgVentures will award grants up to $10,000.
Application submission begins October 15, 2026
The deadline to apply is 6pm, December 15, 2026.
Accepting the first 200 applications.
For additional information contact your NC Cooperative Extension Agent, or visit our webpage www.ncagventures.org.
About N.C. Cooperative Extension
N.C. Cooperative Extension brings research-based knowledge and programs to all North Carolinians, focusing on nine significant goals through its 4-H and Youth Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Community and Rural Development, and Family and Consumer Sciences programs. N.C. Cooperative Extension is a strategic partnership between the state's two land-grant institutions – NC State University and N.C. A&T State University. Each school coordinates Extension programs that work in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), state and local governments, and industry and community partners.
Extension has offices in every North Carolina county and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee. The staff and volunteers work with local government to support agriculture, horticulture, natural resources, nutrition and health, as well as a variety of consumer, youth and economic concerns.
The Caswell County Center is located in the County's Agricultural Building at 126 Court Square in Yanceyville and can also be reached by telephone at 336-694-4158. Visit their website for a full staff directory and email contacts.
