Assistance program
Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act
$2.2 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 10.203
- What it does
- To assist State Agricultural Experiment Stations, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Insular Areas in conducting agricultural research programs. These activities are broad and include research on all aspects of agriculture, including soil and water conservation and use; plant and animal production, protection, and health; processing, distribution, safety, marketing, and utilization of food and agricultural products; forestry, including range management and range products; multiple use of forest rangelands, and urban forestry; aquaculture; home economics and family life; human nutrition; rural and community development; sustainable agriculture; molecular biology; and biotechnology. Research may be conducted on problems of local, state, regional, or national concern. Not less than 25 percent of the total Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361c(c)(3)) funding is allotted to the states for cooperative research employing multidisciplinary approaches in which a State agricultural experiment station, working with another State agricultural experiment station, the Agricultural Research Service, or a college or university, cooperates to solve problems that concern more than one state. These funds are designated as the “Multistate Research Fund.†Funds are allocated on a pro rata basis and allocations are adjusted to support national and regional projects. These projects and their associated budgets are reviewed and approved annually.
- Who benefits
- Funds under the Hatch Act are allocated in accordance with the statutory formula stated in the Act to the State agricultural experiment stations of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Micronesia, and Northern Mariana Islands. These institutions have been identified and declared eligible by their respective State legislatures.
- Who applies
- The following list of State Agricultural Experiment Stations located in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Insular Areas in accordance with the Hatch Act of 1887 (7 U.S.C. 361a-i) are eligible for this program. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided the subcontracts are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the time of application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration, or even though an application may have been reviewed, will preclude NIFA from making an award. 1. University of Alaska Fairbanks 2. Auburn University 3. University of Arkansas 4. American Samoa Community College 5. University of Arizona 6. University of California 7. Colorado State University 8. University of Connecticut 9. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 10. University of the District of Columbia 11. University of Delaware 12. University of Florida 13. University of Georgia 14. University of Guam 15. University of Hawaii 16. Iowa State University 17. University of Idaho 18. University of Illinois 19. Purdue University 20. Kansas State University 21. University of Kentucky 22. Louisiana State University 23. University of Massachusetts 24. University of Maryland 25. University of Maine 26. Michigan State University 27. University of Minnesota 28. University of Missouri 29. Northern Marianas College 30. Mississippi State University 31. Montana State University 32. North Carolina State University 33. North Dakota State University 34. University of Nebraska 35. University System of New Hampshire 36. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 8 37. New Mexico State University 38. Nevada System of Higher Education 39. Cornell University – Ithaca 40. Cornell University – Geneva 41. Ohio State University 42. Oklahoma State University 43. Oregon State University 44. Pennsylvania State University 45. College of Micronesia 46. Puerto Rico Agricultural Extension 47. University of Rhode Island 48. Clemson University 49. South Dakota State University 50. University of Tennessee 51. Texas A&M 52. Utah State University 53. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 54. University of the Virgin Islands 55. University of Vermont 56. Washington State University 57. University of Wisconsin 58. West Virginia University 59. University of Wyoming
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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