LEAF Partnership

2026 Dairy Plus Program

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Office of Agricultural Resilience and Sustainability (OARS) 2026 Dairy Plus Program will award competitive grants to California dairy farms for the implementation of advanced manure management practices that address both methane emissions and nitrogen and salt surplus.

Agency/Department Name: CA Department of Food and Agriculture

Application Close Date: 9/14/26 17:00

Estimated Available Funds: $34,000,000

Upland Game Bird Account Grant

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is seeking stakeholder input to help inform the upcoming Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) solicitation. Your feedback will help them better understand industry priorities, emerging challenges, and opportunities to support California’s specialty crop sector through future grant funding.

Survey Link: https://forms.office.com/g/T304jL0wp2

Thank you all for contributing to robust attendance at our LEAF Workgroup meeting that took place yesterday. We were glad to hear your updates, concerns, and feedback about the tools we have developed. We continue to welcome that feedback as you familiarize yourself with the tools, so please don't hesitate to reach out to myself (skaufman@mljt.org) and Rose (rday@mljt.org) with any questions or comments.

For those who were unable to attend, you can click here to the Zoom recording. You will need to use the following passcode to access the recording: y$GpHqa7. You can also review the meeting transcript and chat log via this link.

A few highlights from the discussion:

• Partners provided valuable feedback on the Central Sierra Regional Partnership Funding Coordination Matrix, including recommendations to incorporate additional datasets, project mapping layers, funding programs, and implementation resources. Some feedback was captured in our live poll results below: