Up to $200,000 at 3% to purchase land or capital equipment
http://www.marbidco.org/loans/mrbif.html

Up to $75,000 at 4.75% for working capital and equipment purchases
http://www.marbidco.org/loans/rbwc.html

Up to $150,000 for working capital and equipment purchases in the forest products business

Up to $100,000 at 3% to plant vineyards or develop wineries
http://www.marbidco.org/loans/mvplf.html

Up to $15,000 at 4% to install equipment or make operational improvements that reduce energy consumption
http://www.marbidco.org/App%20Energy%20Eff%201.2010.pdf

Maryland Value Added Producer Grants Program
Up to $25,000 matching grant for receiving a US Dept. of Agriculture Grant
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/coops/vadg.htm

http://www.marbidco.org/business/mvapg.html
Local Government Ag/RBI Project Cost Share Program
Up to $5,000 of cost share funding for local government economic development projects
http://www.marbidco.org/applications.html

$300 for energy audit which will be refunded if you implement one or more of the recommendations made thru the energy audit. Incentives can pay for up to 50% of project costs.
http://www.marbidco.org/7%2017%2009%20energy%20audit%20flyer.pdf

Assists young and beginning farmers with the purchase of farmland. Funds are not expected to be available until FY 2012
http://www.marbidco.org/about/about_us.html

There is a similar agency like theirs in Pennsylvania.

Their money is for Ag and Resource-Based business.

Their mission is not to create jobs but to keep rural land to be used for agriculture and not for development.

Provides access to affordable capital.

They are publicly funded but operate like a private non-profit.

They offer mostly loan programs.

Budget problems have curtailed the grant programs but they are hoping to bring them back.

They work together with commercial lenders or other financial institutions.

They like to see the lender provide 10% of the investment needed.

The loan for wine growers has an option where you pay interest only for the first 3 years.

Special funds available for Ag-Cooperatives.