Federal State Marketing Improvement Program

The Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP) offers grants with a one-to-one dollar match to assist in exploring new market opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products, and to encourage research and innovation aimed at improving the efficiency and performance of the marketing system.

Eligible applicants (“State agencies”) are State departments of agriculture, State agricultural experiment stations, and other appropriate State agencies from the 50 States, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The term “other appropriate State Agency” means a State university, a State college, or a State government entity such as a State department of forestry, natural resources, or energy. The terms State university and State college include land-grant universities and colleges which are defined as institutions of higher education in the United States and designated by a State to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. Tribal colleges and universities that became land-grant institutions in 1994, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, as well as other State-run colleges and universities are also eligible.

As climates change, producers may need to grow new commodities or find new marketing opportunities This program will assist producers in exploring new market opportunities and support research and innovation aimed at improving marketing system efficiency and performance, which will help support producers if they need to change commodities they grow and/or the marketing system changes.