NIFA’s Fiscal Year 2025 President’s Budget submission seeks funding to bolster scientific research in programs that enhance the nation’s resilience and response to climate change through innovative and new approaches.
As USDA’s primary extramural research, education, and Extension funding agency, the investments that Congress will authorize directly support critical and emerging challenges facing food, agriculture, forestry, and the human sciences for State, Tribal, and other cooperators. NIFA provides linkages between the Federal and State components of a national agricultural research, Extension, and education system. NIFA funds projects conducted in partnership with State Agricultural Experiment Stations, the Cooperative Extension System, the Land-grant University System, Non Land-grant Colleges of Agriculture, community colleges, and other institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations and small businesses. NIFA programs propel cutting-edge discoveries from research laboratories to farms, classrooms, communities, and beyond, with the help of Cooperative Extension. Federal funds are distributed to enhance capacity at universities by statutory formula funding and competitive grants.