Financial Assistance

Agribusiness Revolving Loan Fund

Offers financing to value-added agriculture enterprises, agriculture support businesses, marketers or retailers of agricultural products, and businesses with emerging agricultural technology. This funding is provided, in part, by the USDA Rural Development’s Intermediary Relending Program. Details...

Down Payment Loan Program

The Down Payment Loan program can be used by a qualifying Missouri producer to more readily secure a loan from a participating lender, either providing the full down payment, or supplementing the down payment amount available. Details...

Meat Processing Facility Investment Tax Credit Program

Tax credits to Missouri meat processing facilities. Details...

Missouri Biofuel Infrastructure Grant Program

The Missouri Biofuel Infrastructure Incentive Program provides funds to increase the distribution and use of biofuels in the state of Missouri. Funds from the program will be awarded to fuel retailers, fuel distributors, terminal companies, and fleet operations that are dispensing, or have plans to store or dispense ethanol blends of E15 or higher, or biodiesel blends of B6 or higher. Details...

Food Insecure Cost-Share Grant Program

The Food Insecure Cost-Share Grant Program provides grants for projects addressing food insecurity in urban areas. Projects should support farmers markets and other economic development initiatives, and they should increase food production and availability. Details...

Urban Agriculture Cost-Share Grant Program

The Urban Agriculture Cost-Share Grant Program assists small agribusinesses operating in urban areas. Details...

Urban Farm Investment Tax Credit Program

The Urban Farm Investment Tax Credit Program provides Missouri tax credits based on eligible expenses incurred in the establishment or improvement of an urban farm which focuses solely on food production for sale or donation to the public. Details...

Alternative Loan Program

Direct loans to finance the production, processing and marketing needs of an alternative agricultural enterprise. Details...

Organic Certification Cost Share Program

The program provides cost share assistance to organic producers and handlers receiving certification, or continuation of certification, by a USDA accredited certifying agency. The National Organic Program (NOP) currently recognizes four categories of certification: crops, wild crops, livestock and processing/handling. Cost share assistance payments are limited to 75 percent of an individual’s certification costs, with a maximum of $750 per classification per year. Details...

Animal Waste Treatment System Loan Program

Loans to finance animal waste treatment systems for independent livestock and poultry producers at below conventional interest rates. Details...

Beginning Farmer Loan Program

A program that enables lenders to receive federally tax-exempt interest on loans made to beginning farmers. Details...

Beginning Farmer Tax Deduction Program

A farm owner may qualify for a deduction from their Missouri adjusted gross income based on the income received by either selling or renting/leasing farmland to a beginning farmer. Details...

Crop and Livestock Loan Guaranty Program

This program provides financial benefits to Missouri youth who undertake crop or livestock production projects. Details...

Down Payment Loan Program

The Down Payment Loan program can be used by a qualifying Missouri producer to more readily secure a loan from a participating lender, either providing the full down payment, or supplementing the down payment amount available. Details...

Family Farm Breeding Livestock Tax Credit Program

Tax credits to Missouri’s lenders who make breeding livestock loans to small farmers. Details...

Single-Purpose Animal Facilities Loan Guarantee Program

A program that provides a 50 percent first-loss guarantee on loans up to $250,000 that lenders make to independent livestock producers to finance breeding or feeder livestock, earthworms, land, buildings, facilities, equipment, machinery and animal waste systems used to produce poultry, swine, beef cattle, dairy cattle (and other livestock) and earthworms. Details...

Promoting Specialty Crops in Missouri Schools

This program provides up to a $1,000 reimbursement to registered schools and early childcare education centers to cover the purchase of specialty crops from a Missouri producer. Details...

Specialty Agricultural Crops Tax Credit Program

The Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority provides Missouri tax credits to Missouri lenders who make loans for specialty crops farming resources to family farmers. Details...

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program

MDA issues grant awards for projects that include research, agricultural extension activities, and programs that increase demand and address the needs of Missouri’s specialty crop industry. Specialty crops are defined by the USDA as fruits and vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, maple syrup, honey, horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture. Details...

Alternative Loan Program

Direct loans to finance the production, processing and marketing needs of an alternative agricultural enterprise. Details...

Agricultural Product Utilization Contributor Tax Credit

Applies to contributions used for financial or technical assistance to rural agricultural business concepts as approved by MASBDA. Details...

Family Farm Breeding Livestock Tax Credit Program

Tax credits to Missouri’s lenders who make breeding livestock loans to small farmers. Details...

Meat Processing Facility Investment Tax Credit Program

Tax credits to Missouri meat processing facilities. Details...

New Generation Cooperative Incentive Tax Credits

Tax credits to induce producer member investment into new generation processing entities that will process Missouri agricultural commodities and agricultural products into value-added goods, provide substantial benefits to Missouri’s agricultural producers, and create jobs for Missourians. Details...

Specialty Agricultural Crops Tax Credit Program

The Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority provides Missouri tax credits to Missouri lenders who make loans for specialty crops farming resources to family farmers. Details...

Value-added agriculture is defined as: a change in the physical state or form of the product; the production of a product in a manner that enhances its value, as demonstrated through a business plan; the physical segregation of an agricultural commodity or product in a manner that results in the enhancement of the value of that commodity or product.

Agribusiness Revolving Loan Fund

Offers financing to value-added agriculture enterprises, agriculture support businesses, marketers or retailers of agricultural products, and businesses with emerging agricultural technology. This funding is provided, in part, by the USDA Rural Development’s Intermediary Relending Program. Details...

Eligible Facility Borrower

Below-market rate deposits of state funds are placed in Missouri financial institutions, allowing eligible borrowers to obtain low interest loans from that institution. Using the program allows lenders to lower the interest rates to the borrower by about 2-3 percent. Details...

Meat Processing Facility Investment Tax Credit Program

Tax credits to Missouri meat processing facilities. Details...

New Generation Cooperative Incentive Tax Credits

Tax credits to induce producer member investment into new generation processing entities that will process Missouri agricultural commodities and agricultural products into value-added goods, provide substantial benefits to Missouri’s agricultural producers, and create jobs for Missourians. Details...

Show-Me Entrepreneurial Grants for Agriculture

The Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority (MASBDA) is accepting applications for funding through its Show-Me Entrepreneurial Grants for Agriculture (SEGA) program. The grant program is open to individuals, businesses and organizations to encourage value-added agriculture innovation in the state. Details...

Missouri Value-Added Agriculture Grant Program

Grants for projects that add value to Missouri agricultural products and aid the economy of a rural community. Details...

Missouri Value-Added Agriculture "Farm to Table" Grant Program

Grants provide funding for Missouri businesses to access resources for accessing and processing locally grown agricultural products for use in institutions within the state. Details...

Missouri Value-Added Agriculture Loan Guarantee Program

A program that provides a 50% first-loss guarantee to lenders who make agricultural business development loans for the acquisition, construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of agricultural property used for the purpose of processing, manufacturing, marketing, exporting, and adding value to an agricultural product. Details...

Alternative Loan Program

Direct loans to finance the production, processing and marketing needs of an alternative agricultural enterprise. Details...

"I'm Pet Friendly" License Plate Spay & Neuter Grants

You can make a difference for the pet population by purchasing “I’m Pet Friendly” license plates. Details...

Large Animal Vet Student Loan Program

The Program was established to assist students currently enrolled or students that have been accepted into the University of Missouri's College of Veterinary Medicine with their financial burden. The loan provides $20,000 for living and educational expenses incurred during their veterinary education process for six individuals per academic year. Details...

Resilient Food System Infrastructure Program

The Missouri Department of Agriculture has received funds from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service for the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Details...