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Best Management Practices is sponsored by Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets. Technical and financial assistance for on-farm improvements and structural conservation practices to improve water quality.
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Best Management Practices (BMP) Program & Engineering Services | Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets Dairy Business Innovation Center Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accountability Land Use & Renewable Energy License and Registrations Public Information | Public Records Vermont Agriculture & Environmental Laboratory Agricultural Water Quality Regulations Best Management Practices (BMP) Program Capital Equipment Assistance Program (CEAP) Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Farm Agronomic Practices (FAP) Program Pasture and Surface Water Fencing (PSWF) Program Seeding and Filter Strip (SFS) Program Vermont Farmers Ecosystem Stewardship Program (CSP-Assist) Vermont Pay for Performance Program (VPFP) Water Quality Program Staff Water Quality Initiatives Disaster Response and Recovery Resources Best Management Practices (BMP) Program & Engineering Services The Best Management Practices (BMP) Program provides technical and financial assistance to identify & assess farmstead water quality concerns, and to assist farmers with the implementation of structural improvements designed to abate agricultural waste discharges to Vermont waters.
Program staff aim to help Vermont farmers achieve and maintain regulatory compliance in a way that is both viable for the operation of the farm and beneficial to water quality. Technical Assistance (TA): Technical assistance is available on a priority basis at no cost to the farmer. TA includes a combination of agricultural, civil, and environmental engineering consultation and design.
State engineers are available to provide water quality compliance consultations, and to assist with state permitting and variances. Financial Assistance (FA): Financial assistance is available to assist Vermont farms with the costs of implementing structural best management practices designed and/or approved by VAAFM engineers. All designs must meet NRCS or equivalent standards.
FA is available to boost payment rates on practices associated with USDA-NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) contracts, as well as to support state-designed practices/projects. All funding is available according to the BMP Program cost share policy . All farms required to comply with the Required Agricultural Practices are eligible to apply.
Applications are evaluated according to the funding priorities established in statute, and receive FA based on a priority ranking and risk assessment. The BMP Program largely focuses on structural practices located in the farmstead and/or production areas.
Examples of conservation practices eligible for cost share through the BMP Program include: Barnyard runoff collection Silage leachate collection Clean water diversion (e.g. gutters, ditches, French drains) Milk house waste collection & treatment All BMP applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Applicants will receive initial follow-up within 10 business days of its receipt.
Applications received by May 1st will receive an engineering field visit (as needed) in the same year. Applications received after May 1st may be rolled into the applicant pool for the following year. Please note that, on average, state-designed projects receiving financial assistance typically do not begin construction until the year after a BMP application is received.
Interested parties should apply for BMP as soon as a water quality concern is identified or a need for permitting/variance assistance arises. Apply by May 1st to receive same-year priority. EQIP-Assist applicants (those wishing to receive financial assistance on practices tied to a NRCS-EQIP contract) are encouraged to apply after they've ranked out for an NRCS-EQIP contract.
Review the BMP Program Factsheet Click the “Online Application” icon below to fill out a short BMP application. We strongly advise you to submit your application online. However, if you would prefer to fill out a printed application or require some other accommodation, please contact the BMP Program Coordinator.
See contact info below. For questions about the BMP program, our BMP Program Coordinator: Email: Emma. Eason@Vermont.
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Best Management Practices is funded by Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets. Verify program details on the funder's own website before applying.
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The BSC AI Factory Accelerator Programme is Spain's national acceleration programme for AI startups, run by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with NVIDIA and AWS as technology partners. Each edition takes 100 startups, 25 at each of four launchpads in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Málaga. The hybrid programme runs 14 weeks in three stages: INSPIRE (business fundamentals), HANDS ON (supercomputing access) and SCALE (investment readiness and a Demo Day). Up to 50 startups move on to HANDS ON and 12 to SCALE. Participants get 1:1 business mentoring for CEOs, technical mentoring for CTOs, and training in advanced AI model training, optimization and distributed systems. The best-performing teams get hands-on access to the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, with support from BSC AI experts. The programme is fully funded and takes no equity. Applications opened 13 October and close 9 November 2026, with kick-off in Barcelona on 2 December and a Demo Day in Madrid on 17 March.
Innovate UK is investing up to £3.1 million in Phase 1 of Frontier AI: SME Champions, the first of three phases. UK SMEs working alone can apply for feasibility or industrial research projects with total eligible costs of £150,000-£250,000, funded at up to 70% for micro and small firms, 60% for medium firms and 50% for large firms. AI must be the core technical contribution, starting at TRL 1-3. Each project picks one theme and a priority within it: AI-enabled health and life sciences, advanced materials with AI, secure AI for national security and defence, or AI safety and assurance technologies. Projects deliver a proof-of-concept prototype and a technical whitepaper, with a clear route to defensible IP. Hardware-led projects, literature reviews, routine integration of existing tools and fully autonomous targeting are excluded. Projects run 1-3 months, start by 1 April 2027 and end by 30 June 2027. Only Phase 1 winners can apply for Phase 2, which is expected to fund demonstrators of up to £1 million over up to 12 months, subject to business case approval. Innovate UK estimates a success rate of about 2%. The competition opened 1 October 2026 and closes 11 November 2026 at 11:00am UK time.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking launched its AI Gigafactories call on 30 July 2026 as a joint procurement, not a conventional research grant, and that distinction shapes who should respond. It seeks consortia or Special Purpose Vehicles bringing together companies, public entities, investors and other partners to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe - facilities that combine massive computing power and state-of-the-art AI processors with the software and cloud technology stacks, high-bandwidth connectivity and energy-efficient data centres needed to deliver frontier AI training, fine-tuning and inference at scale. This is the tier above the 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas EuroHPC already oversees, which serve SMEs and startups with free customised support; the Gigafactories are aimed at frontier-scale sovereign capacity. The financing model is blended: EuroHPC expects total private investment of more than EUR 20,000,000,000 across the EU, with successful projects receiving varying levels of EU and national co-funding calibrated to the size and range of sovereign services offered. Per-facility EU contributions have deliberately not been published, so applicants must build their own capital stack and negotiate co-funding rather than apply against a fixed grant envelope. Facilities may be established in a single Member State or span several, and cross-border developments are explicitly welcomed. The reference is EUROHPC-2026-CEI-AIGF-01 and the deadline is 12 November 2026 at 16:00 CET. Realistically this is a call for infrastructure-grade consortia with credible access to billions in capital, energy siting and hyperscale operations experience - not for individual research groups or early-stage startups, who should instead route through the existing AI Factories network.
The AFID Infrastructure Grant program closes October 30, 2026. Awards top out at $50,000, they are reimbursable, and only a political subdivision can apply. The August round put $507,000 into 14 projects at an average of about $36,000.
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