NPB is thrilled to announce that it will fund the Swine Education & Outreach Professional grant program in 2025, offering $600,000 to swine educators. Deadline for Grant Proposal Submissions: Jan. 31, 2025
The Heart of the Program
Swine education and outreach professionals play a crucial role in the swine industry by educating and training students, caretakers and producers in academia, higher education and extension services.
The objectives of the grant program:
- Drive state and regional execution of national producer priorities, as identified in the annual industry planning process.
- Facilitate greater swine/pork education reach for under-served states and producers.
- Increase interaction with all segments of pork production and/or operation types.
- Enhance collaboration and coordination among industry, research, and Extension nationwide.
- Support Swine Outreach and Education Professionals as a critical part of a successful national system executed at the local level.
- Leverage expertise of Extension with Checkoff funding.
- Strengthen the partnership between the National Pork Board and Swine Education and Outreach Professionals.
- Advance and enhance the workforce pipeline for industry, research and Extension.
- Expand new and alternative platforms for education deployment.
By contributing your expertise and innovative ideas, you’re helping shape the future of pork education and outreach.
Focus for 2025 Program
Proposals in 2025 should be directed towards addressing the National Pork Board’s priorities including:
- Swine Health – including but not limited to:
- Traceability (Premises ID validation in cooperation with State Animal Health Official, AgView accounts, recording movements, and incorporating use of RFID tags and readers into swine tracing for cull sows and exhibition swine)
- Enhancing Biosecurity (Secure Pork Supply plan development, and exercise biosecurity implementation)
- Targeting independent producers
- Surveillance (Certified Swine Sample Collector program – hold trainings consistent with CSSC program standards)
- US SHIP (Producer education on program processes and requirements)
- Catastrophic event and mortality management planning
- Permission to Operate – including but not limited to:
- Develop and promote best Management Practices for environmental footprint reduction (including water, feed, emissions, efficiency of nutrient utilization, etc.)
- Circularity of manure use as fertilizer
- Develop and promote best practices for retention of “our people”
- Promote and improve antibiotic and environmental stewardship activities
- Drive adoption of technologies that increase efficiency across all sectors of pork production
Proposals are encouraged to target the program’s objectives and producer priorities with budgets in the range of up to $100,000.
We value multi-state, multi-institutional and/or multi-partner proposals that demonstrate a return on investment. Collaborating and coordinating with state pork associations before applying is encouraged.
Learn more at National Pork Board.Deadline for Grant Proposal Submissions: Jan. 31, 2025