…..Then join us for a one-of-a-kind workshop designed to introduce you to the exciting opportunities with the USDA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. SBIR grants offer the opportunity to receive funding to conduct research and explore the possibilities for developing new products and services.

This program offers  competitively awarded grants up to $100,000 to qualified small businesses, to support innovative research that could have a significant public benefit in agriculture and community development. These small businesses include small and mid-sized farms, ranches and start-ups formed to solve a local problem such as water pollution, care for the elderly, or educating the young. Other
small businesses are started by scientists and engineers – many of whom graduated from the nation’s Land Grant Universities including the 1890 historically black colleges and universities and the 1994 tribal colleges and universities.