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FFAR Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

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Food & Agriculture Thought Leaders Share Their Insights

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Insights provide an opportunity to share important views, perspectives, research and opinions about current food and agriculture topics.

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    Our Research Addresses Critical Priority Areas

    Our bold research in each Priority Area advances solutions to complex agriculture issues and challenges that farmers currently face.

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    Our Impact

    We invest in research that produces actionable results, which benefit farmers, consumers and the environment. Our research results are publicly available.

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    • 390+ grants awarded
    • 1:1.4 ratio of FFAR funding to matching funds
    • 550+ funding partners
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    Results That Go FFAR

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    Our Breakthroughs outline findings and successes resulting from FFAR-funded research.

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    New Study Shows AI & Supercomputing Can Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Individual Farms

    Breakthrough for FFAR Grant Quantifies Organic Carbon to Improve Agricultural Productivity

    A new study shows artificial intelligence and supercomputing can quantify greenhouse gas emissions from individual farms.

    Loyalty Shopper Card Intervention Creates Behavior Change

    Breakthrough for Individually-targeted incentives, diet quality and health outcomes among adults

    Researchers used an individual’s past food choices to inform the targeted food incentives, creating behavior change and improving food quality purchases.

    Developing an Extensive Database of US Groundwater Wells

    Breakthrough for Achieving Sustainable Groundwater Management Through Innovative Governance & Optimal Agricultural Water Use Under Conflicting Objectives

    Dr. Landon Marston and his research team created the Database of Groundwater Wells in the United States, a major undertaking compiling records of over 14 million groundwater wells across the United States that is a crucial decision-support tool for improving groundwater management and conservation.

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    Our Insights highlight unique perspectives from across the food and agriculture community.

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    The Importance of Healthy Indigenous Food Systems & How to Improve Them 

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    Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson

    Assistant Professor - Indigenous Resiliency School of Natural Resources & the Environment Indigenous Reliance Center University of Arizona 

    The Aim For Healthy, Productive & Environmentally Friendly, Southeastern Beef Calves

    Federico Tarnonsky

    FFAR Fellow (2022-2025), University of Florida

    Using Artificial Intelligence to Calculate GHGs at the Individual Farm Level

    Kaiyu Guan

    Dr. Kaiyu Guan

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Data for Dairy: Research to Guide Farmers in Their Sustainability Journey

    Reza Afshar

    Reza Afshar

    Vice President, Soil, Feed and Water Research at Dairy Management Inc.

    Time Teaches Biosecurity Importance

    Kevin Schulz

    Kevin Schulz

    Editor, The Farmer/Farm Progress

    Greener Cattle Initiative is Game Changer for Dairy’s Future

    Dr. Juan Tricarico

    Dr. Juan Tricarico

    Senior Vice President, Environmental Research, Dairy Management Inc.

    Entrepreneur Attributes Kirchner HBCU Fellowship to Career Success

    Kwame Terra

    Kwame Terra MPH

    Kirchner Fellowship HBCU 2021 Cohort

    Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Dairy Cattle

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    Dr. Francisco Peñagaricano and Dr. Guillermo Martinez Boggio

    Building Diversity & Inclusion in the Agriculture Technology Venture Capital Industry

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    LaKisha Odom, Ph.D.

    Scientific Program Director Sustaining Vibrant Agroecosystems

    Advancing Ecosystem Service Markets for Sustainable Farming

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    LaKisha Odom & DJ May

    A Place for Everyone in Agriculture

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    Dr. LaKisha Odom & Jocelyn Hittle

    Let’s Raise a Glass on National Milk Day to the Power of Agriculture Research

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    Krysta Harden

    President and CEO U.S. Dairy Export Council

    Building Team Chemistry: The Bigger Picture Behind Cows & Climate

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    Conor McCabe

    Animal Biology Graduate Student, UC Davis

    Insight on Livestock Methane Mitigation

    Dr. Rod Mackie

    Dr. Rod Mackie, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

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    Finding a New Way to Control Weeds in Cotton.

    Sarah Chu

    Sarah Chu

    FFAR Fellow, Texas A&M University

    Indigenous Farmers are Leading a “New Green Revolution” Focused on Hemp

    James DeDecker, Director, Michigan State University – Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center Mary Donner, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians – Ziibimijwang Farm Executive Director and Tribal Citizen

    Protecting the Vidalia Onion

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    Sujan Paudel

    FFAR Fellow

    Irrigation’s Role in Ensuring Global Food Security

    Luke Reynolds

    Irrigation Association

    The “Good Soil Discount” — A Game Changer for U.S. Agriculture

    Harley Cross

    Harley Cross

    Land Core Co-founder & Director of Strategy

    News

    The latest news and updates from FFAR.

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    Funding Opportunity Drives Innovation & Commercialization in Sustainable Packaging for Specialty Crop Exports

    SHIC/FFAR Fund Six Japanese Encephalitis Virus Research Projects

    FFAR & OCP North America Announce Fertilizer Fellowship Awardees & Grant Opportunity

    Grant Improves Hemp Fiber Processing & Quality

    FFAR & Danone North America Announce Grant Opportunity to Support Regenerative Agriculture

    FFAR Research Addresses On-Farm Bird Flu Outbreaks Linked to Wild Waterfowl

    Danone Insititute North America Accepting Grant Proposals for Sustainable Food Systems Initiatives

    SHIC, FFAR & Pork Checkoff Announce H5N1 Risk to Swine Research Program & RFP

    ROAR Funding Protects Strawberries from Dangerous Pathogen

    Efficient Fertilizer Consortium Seeks Research to Evaluate Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer Impact Globally

    FFAR’s Dr. LaKisha Odom Selected for Two Prestigious Agriculture Industry Awards

    FFAR Aims to Help Farmers Manage Manure More Sustainably & Profitably

    Seeding Solutions Grant Promotes Clean Water Through Performance-Based Financing

    USDA and FFAR Announce Innovation Challenge Projects Aimed at Catalyzing Transformative Research Solutions

    FFAR Seeding Solutions Grant Evaluates the Benefits of Converting Row Crops to Perennial Forage Systems

    Seeding Solutions Grant Provides Decision Support Tool for Extreme Weather Events

    Seeding Solutions Grant to Preserve Groundwater and Economically Benefit Growers

    FFAR & Eight Member Organizations Commit $8.45 Million to Efficient Fertilizer Consortium

    Hemp Research Consortium Grant Examines Biopesticides for Hemp Treatment

    Seeding Solutions Grant Developing Tomato Resistance to Parasitic Weed

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