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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadlines to apply for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
funding opportunity after requests from many stakeholders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The new deadlines to apply via</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span><a href="https://www.grants.gov/" class="ext_url" style="color:rgb(0,87,130)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Grants.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
by 11:59 p.m. ET:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">First Funding Pool – May 6, 2022 </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Proposals from $5 million to $100 million</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Second Funding Pool – June 10, 2022</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12.24px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Proposals from $250,000 to $4,999,999</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12.24px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12.24px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The
Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity will finance pilot projects that create market opportunities for U.S. agricultural and forestry products that use climate-smart production practices and include innovative, cost-effective ways
to measure and verify greenhouse gas benefits. USDA began accepting project applications for fiscal year 2022 on Feb. 7, 2022, and since then, Department officials have heard from many stakeholders that an extension would allow them to prepare more robust
applications to further development of climate-smart markets for a diverse range of producers.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12.24px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Funding
will be provided to partners through the USDA’s</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></span><a href="https://www.usda.gov/ccc" style="color:rgb(0,87,130); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Commodity
Credit Corporation</span></a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">for
pilot projects to provide incentives to producers and landowners to:</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Implement climate-smart production practices, activities, and systems on working lands,</span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Measure/quantify, monitor, and verify the carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits associated with those practices, and</span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Develop markets and promote the resulting climate-smart commodities.</span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Who can apply?</span></div>
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<li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">County, city or township governments</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Special district governments </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">State governments </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Small businesses </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For profit organizations other than small businesses</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) (other than institutions of higher education) </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) (other than institutions of higher education) </span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Private institutions of higher education, or</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Public and State-controlled institutions of higher education.</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">More information: </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1898239</span></div>
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