{"id":244043,"date":"2024-01-23T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/secure-funding-now-usda-sponsored-farming-project-underway-in-the-southern-piedmont\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:37:52","slug":"secure-funding-now-usda-sponsored-farming-project-underway-in-the-southern-piedmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/secure-funding-now-usda-sponsored-farming-project-underway-in-the-southern-piedmont\/","title":{"rendered":"SECURE FUNDING NOW | USDA-Sponsored Farming Project Underway in the Southern Piedmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">Rodale Institute has been hard at work to expand resilient farming practices in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Through a USDA-funded project, Rodale Institute and its partners are enrolling 100 organic and conventional vegetable farmers across the Southern Piedmont, as well as farmers markets and market farmers, in a research study that provides farmers with the benefit of financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Over $6 million in cash and non-cash incentives are available to participating farmers, market managers, and market farmers.<\/p>\n<h2>Opportunities For Farmers<\/h2>\n<p>The project is designed to assist farmers, gather data, evaluate the impact of regenerative farming practices, and successfully market the commodities produced by the project\u2019s participants.<\/p>\n<p>Space is still available for conventional farmers. But the application period is nearing its deadline. Farmers interested in participating can apply at the link&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rodaleinstitute.org\/blog\/secure-funding-now-usda-sponsored-farming-project-underway-in-the-southern-piedmont\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at rodaleinstitute.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodale Institute has been hard at work to expand resilient farming practices in the Southeast. Through a USDA-funded project, Rodale Institute and its partners are enrolling 100 organic and conventional vegetable farmers across the Southern Piedmont, as well as farmers markets and market farmers, in a research study that provides farmers with the benefit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":244044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SECURE FUNDING NOW | USDA-Sponsored Farming Project Underway in the Southern Piedmont - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rodaleinstitute.org\/blog\/secure-funding-now-usda-sponsored-farming-project-underway-in-the-southern-piedmont\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SECURE FUNDING NOW | USDA-Sponsored Farming Project Underway in the Southern Piedmont\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rodale Institute has been hard at work to expand resilient farming practices in the Southeast. 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