FFAR Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

Food & Agriculture Thought Leaders Share Their Insights

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

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

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    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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    Results That Go FFAR

    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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    The Latest

    Insights

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

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    Securing Soybean Yields from the Bottom Up

    Sujata Bogati

    2022-2025 FFAR Fellow, Purdue University

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

    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

    Hispanic Heritage Month

    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.

    Data-Driven Fungicide Decisions

    Vini Garnica

    2022-2025 FFAR Fellow, NC State University

    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.

    Cracking the Code of Texture:

    Heeduk Oh

    FFAR Fellow, NC State University

    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

    Francisco Penagaricano headshot

    Dr. Francisco Peñagaricano and Dr. Guillermo Martinez Boggio

    Building Diversity & Inclusion in the Agriculture Technology Venture Capital Industry

    LaKisha Odom, Ph.D.

    Scientific Program Director Sustaining Vibrant Agroecosystems

    Unlocking Peanut Potential

    Samuele Lamon

    FFAR Fellow, University of Georgia

    Advancing Ecosystem Service Markets for Sustainable Farming

    LaKisha Odom & DJ May

    Feeding Bees Through Diversity

    Riley Reed

    FFAR Fellow, Washington State University

    Precision Agriculture Tools for Livestock Production

    Caleb J. Grohmann

    FFAR Fellow, University of Missouri

    The Next Frontier for Biotechnology & the Future of Forestry

    Samantha Surber

    FFAR Fellow, University of Georgia

    A Place for Everyone in Agriculture

    Dr. LaKisha Odom & Jocelyn Hittle

    News

    The latest news and updates from FFAR.

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    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

    FFAR and USDA Launch Request for Proposals for Site Host of the G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists

    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

    Seeding Solutions Grant Develops Cotton-Based Precision Irrigation

    FFAR and North Carolina State Announce 2024 FFAR Fellows

    Crops of the Future Grant Improves Stress Tolerance in Carrots

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