Collaboration.
Innovation.
Impact.
The Hatch Multistate Research Fund (MRF) supports agricultural innovation and resilience by providing federal capacity funds to collaborative projects that address high-priority regional and national issues in agriculture. Projects are led by researchers at land-grant universities and agInnovation, a nationwide network of agricultural experiment stations. The Multistate Research Fund is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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The Multistate Research Fund Impacts Program (MRF Impacts) communicates the impacts of these projects.
MULTISTATE RESEARCH IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
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MULTISTATE PROJECTS HAVE UNIQUE QUALITIES THAT FOSTER IMPACTS
Capacity funding is a catalyst
​By facilitating meetings, relationships, and joint grant proposals, the multistate framework provides the foundation for leveraging larger investments. Hatch Multistate Research Fund federal allocations (totaling $65.4M in FFY2025) are matched at least 1:1 by states.
More expertise for bigger issues
​With participants from multiple states and disciplines, Hatch Multistate projects have the capacity to tackle complex regional and national issues in agriculture. Because Hatch Multistate projects are led by participants affiliated with land-grant universities, education and Extension can be easily integrated.
A long-term look
The Hatch Multistate Research Fund provides support in renewable five-year cycles, facilitating long-term projects needed to address complex issues and have big impacts. Continuity also builds trust and helps teams respond rapidly to emerging issues.
Public research, public value
The Hatch Multistate Research Fund is publicly funded and supports research that benefits to society.
Working smarter, not harder
Working together allows researchers to prioritize and coordinate efforts, spread the workload, and reduce redundancy. Collaborating researchers are able to share facilities, tools, data, and other resources, which a single state or institution may not be able to offer.
Multistate team, multistate impact
​Multistate projects can collect broader datasets and provide both comprehensive solutions as well as targeted strategies for specific areas, crops, and needs. Collaboration at this scale enables impacts that no single state or institution could achieve.
MULTISTATE RESEARCH BY THE NUMBERS
$65.4M
available to support Hatch Multistate projects in FFY2025.
56
Agricultural Experiment Stations eligible to receive Hatch Multistate funding.
256
active Hatch Multistate research projects in 2026.
5,100
active participants in Hatch Multistate projects in 2026.
1:1
minimum state funding match for Hatch MRF federal allocations to research stations
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