U.S. Department of Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) leads initiatives in food, agriculture, natural resources, and rural development. It aims to expand markets for agricultural products globally, foster alternative markets domestically, improve rural infrastructure, enhance food safety, promote nutrition education, and manage public lands collaboratively.

Past deals in Fruits and Vegetables

LaBrucherie Produce

Grant in 2025
LaBrucherie Produce is an agricultural farm that grows red chards, mizuna, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Wonderful Citrus

Grant in 2025
Wonderful Citrus is America’s largest integrated grower, shipper and packer of fresh citrus, including clementine/mandarin, navel and Valencia oranges; lemons; limes; grapefruits; and other citrus varieties. Wonderful Citrus owns, cultivates and harvests nearly 60,000 acres of fresh citrus and ships around the world each year to ensure a year-round supply. Our citrus can be found in all channels of distribution, most visible in the produce department of grocery stores across America under the flagship consumer brand of Wonderful® Halos® mandarins. Wonderful Citrus is part of The Wonderful Company, a successful, fast-growing privately held $4.6 billion company with 10,000 employees worldwide. We’ve made Wonderful® Pistachios America’s fastest-growing snack brand. We’ve turned pomegranates and POM Wonderful® into a worldwide phenomenon. Wonderful® Halos® is the No. 1 mandarin orange in America. FIJI® Water is the No. 1 premium imported bottled water in America. JUSTIN® Wine produces California’s top-selling, high-end Cabernet Sauvignon. And Teleflora® is the world’s leading floral delivery service. The Wonderful Company has a longstanding commitment to corporate social responsibility, including more than $200 million invested in environmental technologies and sustainability research, $50 million in charitable giving and education initiatives every year, $100 million toward the construction of two charter school campuses in California’s Central Valley, and innovative health and wellness programs, including two new, free primary care clinics for employees and their dependents.

Damian's Craft Meats

Grant in 2024
Damian's Craft Meats offers high-quality, locally sourced, grass-fed meat products that promote the ethical treatment of livestock in both life and death.

Walter P. Rawl and Sons

Grant in 2024
Walter P. Rawl and Sons is an agricultural firm that specialises in fresh vegetables, organic products and food production services.

Olsen Brothers Ranches

Grant in 2024
Olsen Brothers Ranches is a farm that specializes in growing permanent crops.

Windy Acres Farm

Grant in 2024
Windy Acres Farm are a family farm that takes pride in providing our customers with the highest quality goods available. Our stand is open from April to mid-November. We sell flowers, fruit, and organize an autumn festival.

Sommer Farms

Grant in 2024
Sommer Farms specializes in fresh food farming and seedlings.

Laut Farms

Grant in 2024
Laut Farms gives you early access to the California table grape season so you may serve the freshest produce to your guests.

O.K. Farms

Grant in 2024
O.K. Farms are happy to support other farmers on the island through our community-supported agriculture.

Caribbean Produce

Grant in 2024
Caribbean Produce provides end-to-end distribution services that are adapted to customer and market needs. they offer supply chain management, distribution, logistics, and marketing services.

William H. Jordan Farm

Grant in 2023
William H. Jordan Farm is a fifth-generation farm dedicated to creating food for people.

Fields Fields Blueberries

Grant in 2023
Fields Fields Blueberries is a family-owned organic wild blueberry farm.

Lazy Acres Farm

Grant in 2023
Lazy Acres Farm is a family farm that focuses on organically growing fruits and vegetables.

Broadturn Farm

Grant in 2023
Broadturn Farm is dedicated to enhancing the accessibility and productivity of agricultural land while promoting a harmonious relationship between people and the natural environment. The farm cultivates a diverse array of products, including flowers, organic vegetables, hay, honey, and herbs. It also offers florist services for weddings and special events, catering to clients seeking bespoke floral arrangements. Additionally, Broadturn Farm supplies its farm products to restaurants and small retail stores through its wholesale division. Beyond its agricultural pursuits, the farm provides event space for weddings and other gatherings, contributing to the community by fostering connections between people and the landscape.

Zapata Seed Company

Grant in 2023
Zapata Seed Company is solely focused to developing the highest quality potato seed stocks.

FloraPulse

Grant in 2023
FloraPulse develops precision irrigation technology for orchards and vineyards, based on patented microsensors and stem water potential measurements. The company offers a micro tensiometer system that directly measures plant water status in fruit and nut crops, delivering daily readings and science-based irrigation recommendations. Originating from researchers at Cornell University with decades of experience, FloraPulse helps growers increase productivity, reduce costs, and better manage risk by optimizing water use. The solution provides farmers with continuous field insights and weekly reports on water stress history to fine-tune irrigation strategies and improve crop health and yield.

Sylvatica Forest Farm

Grant in 2023
Sylvatica Forest Farm is an educational enterprise dedicated to promoting sustainable land use, ecosystem health, and conservation practices. It offers educational programs, herbal subscriptions, a fruit and nut tree nursery, a mushroom farm, and an apothecary e-shop, empowering clients to engage in sustainable farming, learn about herbalism, and support long-term land conservation.

Wolf Gap Gardens

Grant in 2023
Wolf Gap Gardens is a small-scale, certified organic farm owned and operated by a mother-daughter combination, Melinda and Ma.

MetroGrow Hawaii

Grant in 2023
MetroGrow Hawaii is an urban vertical farm that produces lettuce, microgreens, shoots, and ice plants.

Finding Eminence Farm

Grant in 2023
Finding Eminence Farm is a farm that grows cut flowers and greens in central Illinois.

Newberry Pecans

Grant in 2023
Newberry Pecans is a small family-owned company that has planted a few pecan trees.

Department Of Horticulture

Grant in 2023
Department of Horticulture, where plant form and function combine to provide essential nutrition and aesthetically pleasing environments

Farmer Focus

Grant in 2023
Farmer Focus, founded in 2014 by sixth-generation farmer Corwin Heatwole, is the only company that offers 100% USDA organic and Humane Certified® chicken. The company is dedicated to promoting and protecting generational family farms by returning decision-making and ownership of chicken production to farmers. This approach enhances the financial viability of their operations and improves farmer profits. Farmer Focus products are available in 2,500 stores across the East Coast and Midwest, including major retailers such as Publix and Kroger. The company emphasizes the production of fresh, healthy chicken that is organic, GMO verified, and free from antibiotics, aligning with its commitment to sustainability and animal welfare.

Widnor Farms

Grant in 2023
Widnor Farms LLC is a beginner farmer rancher operating independently in Whatcom County, Washington.

North of Nowhere Farm

Grant in 2023
North of Nowhere Farm LLC, a majority-woman-owned business near Opheim, will use the funds to expand its customer base and boost profitability. This is a 75-person rural farming community in northeastern Montana. The entrepreneurs agree that good health is dependent on good nutrition and healthy soil in order to produce a high-quality food commodity. The family-owned farm raises grass-fed beef using regenerative agriculture practices to produce high protein, nutritional beef sticks.

Bottomland Prime

Debt Financing in 2023
Bottomland Prime is Amarillo, Texas' food supply chain.

County Line Farm

Grant in 2023
County Line Farm a family-run farm in Kents Store, Virginia. We began homesteading on a small scale in 2009 as a means of becoming more self-sufficient and providing safe, healthy, ethically-raised food for ourselves and our family.

FloraPulse

Grant in 2022
FloraPulse develops precision irrigation technology for orchards and vineyards, based on patented microsensors and stem water potential measurements. The company offers a micro tensiometer system that directly measures plant water status in fruit and nut crops, delivering daily readings and science-based irrigation recommendations. Originating from researchers at Cornell University with decades of experience, FloraPulse helps growers increase productivity, reduce costs, and better manage risk by optimizing water use. The solution provides farmers with continuous field insights and weekly reports on water stress history to fine-tune irrigation strategies and improve crop health and yield.

Future Harvest

Grant in 2021
Future Harvest helps where food flows from farm to table in a way that strengthens agriculture and the regional food economy; protects the environment, water, and air; and provides healthy, nutritious food to the region's residents. To increase the supply and demand of milk, meat, and other products from pasture-raised animals, they developed the Go Grassfed campaign;

Kitchen Food Ventures

Grant in 2021
Kitchen Food Ventures' objective is to assist economic development that will empower those involved in the food industry.

Songbird Farm

Grant in 2019
Songbird Farm, based in Unity, Maine, is a specialized agricultural business that produces and sells heirloom cornmeal, wheat flour, and grains. Primarily serving wholesale markets, the company supplies its products to local food store co-ops, a multi-farm CSA, and a regional distributor.

FloraPulse

Grant in 2018
FloraPulse develops precision irrigation technology for orchards and vineyards, based on patented microsensors and stem water potential measurements. The company offers a micro tensiometer system that directly measures plant water status in fruit and nut crops, delivering daily readings and science-based irrigation recommendations. Originating from researchers at Cornell University with decades of experience, FloraPulse helps growers increase productivity, reduce costs, and better manage risk by optimizing water use. The solution provides farmers with continuous field insights and weekly reports on water stress history to fine-tune irrigation strategies and improve crop health and yield.

FloraPulse

Grant in 2017
FloraPulse develops precision irrigation technology for orchards and vineyards, based on patented microsensors and stem water potential measurements. The company offers a micro tensiometer system that directly measures plant water status in fruit and nut crops, delivering daily readings and science-based irrigation recommendations. Originating from researchers at Cornell University with decades of experience, FloraPulse helps growers increase productivity, reduce costs, and better manage risk by optimizing water use. The solution provides farmers with continuous field insights and weekly reports on water stress history to fine-tune irrigation strategies and improve crop health and yield.

Myers Produce

Myers Produce is to increase farmers’ and producers’ access to markets within our region, in an effort to keep land in agriculture.

Vermont Farmers Food Center

Vermont Farmers Food Center increases access and availability of locally produced food in the Rutland Region through education, expanding markets and market access, aggregation, and distribution of locally produced and value added agricultural products.
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