Special Report

Organic research grants

Riddle

The Ceres Trust is a private family foundation that offers grants for organic agricultural research in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The trust offers grants to land grant universities and graduate students in the 12-state area.

The university grants are $180,000 over a three-year period, the individual graduate grants are up to $10,000 for one year. Jim Riddle, former Chair of the National Organic Standards Board coordinates the research grants for Ceres, he says the projects are in areas of eco-system health, livestock health, pollinator protection, soil health and many others.  The grad student projects must be conducted under certified organic conditions and include an organic farmer.  “We’re interested in getting the information into the hands of farmers.”

The latest round of university grants were just announced while graduate student grant applications are being accepted through March 31st.  Applications are online at Ceres Trust.org

The Trust has also just published a report: “Organic Research and Outreach in the North Central Region – February, 2015”. The report is also available on the Ceres website

Riddle talks about the grant program:

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