Overview
Through the Agriculture Risk Management Education Partnerships (ARME) program, NIFA supports agricultural risk management education for farmers, ranchers, and producers in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.
The primary goals of the ARME program are to provide U.S. agricultural producers and their families, as appropriate, with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to make informed risk management decisions that enhance profitability of their operations, and to deliver risk management education to farmers, ranchers, producers, and their families who underutilize crop insurance programs.
The ARME program funds four regional centers (Northeast Region, North Central Region, Southern Region, and Western Region) and one electronic support center (Digital Center).
About the Extension Risk Management Education Centers
The ARME program operates through four regional Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) Centers (Northeast, North Central, Southern and Western), with support from the Digital ERME Center.
The Centers annually conduct the ERME Competitive Grants Program, which provides funding to educators who have the expertise to develop and deliver risk mitigation programming that addresses one or more of the five primary areas of agriculture risk: production, marketing, financial, legal and human. Project proposals must clearly identify what risk management outcomes will be for producers, and how they will improve the producers' economic viability.
Eligibility
Applications to the ARME Program may only be submitted by qualified public and private entities (including Land-grant Universities, Cooperative Extension Service organizations, and colleges or universities). This includes all colleges and universities, Federal, State, and local agencies, nonprofit and for-profit private organization or corporations, and other entities. Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration or, even though an application may be reviewed, will preclude NIFA from making an award.
