Veterinary Services Grant Program

Key Facts

Status: Forecasted

Posted date: January 15, 2026

Archive date: May 16, 2026

Close date: April 16, 2026

Opportunity ID: 361158

Opportunity number: USDA-NIFA-VSGP-011778

Opportunity category: Discretionary

Agency name: National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Agency code: USDA-NIFA

Award floor: $75,000

Award ceiling: $300,000

Cost sharing required: No

Funding Instrument Types
  • Grant
Category of Funding Activity
  • Agriculture
Eligible Applicants
  • Others
Tools
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
  • agency_code:usda_nifa
  • category_of_funding_activity:agriculture
  • cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
  • eligible_applicants:others
  • funding_instrument_type:grant
  • opportunity_category:discretionary
  • status:forecasted
Description

Veterinarians play significant roles in assuring food and fiber animal health, food safety and security, public health, and producer profitability, especially in rural areas of the United States where most livestock production occurs. The VSGP, Assistance Listing 10.336, and its companion Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP), authorized by the National Veterinary Medical Services Act (NVMSA), were established to address concerns that long-term uneven distributions in the veterinary workforce have left some rural communities with insufficient access to food/large animal veterinary services. The objectives of the VSGP are to develop, implement, and sustain food animal veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations in the United States, which includes Insular Areas (see Appendix III of this NOFO for a definition of “Insular Area”), and to provide education, extension, and training programs for the food animal veterinary workforce.

Veterinary Services Grant Program
Veterinarians play significant roles in assuring food and fiber animal health, food safety and security, public health, and producer profitability, especially in rural areas of the United States where most livestock production occurs. The VSGP, Assistance Listing 10.336, and its companion Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP), authorized by the National Veterinary Medical Services Act (NVMSA), were established to address concerns that long-term uneven distributions in the veterinary workforce have left some rural communities with insufficient access to food/large animal veterinary services. The objectives of the VSGP are to develop, implement, and sustain food animal veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations in the United States, which includes Insular Areas (see Appendix III of this NOFO for a definition of “Insular Area”), and to provide education, extension, and training programs for the food animal veterinary workforce.
[Forecasted] Veterinary Services Grant Program
Forecasted
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Agriculture
Grant
Others
2026-01-15