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Project Ella 

Year Awarded  2023

Total award amount   $495,990

Location   Leiden, The Netherlands

Program   Egg-Tech Prize

Matching Funders   Open Philanthropy

Grantee Institution   In Ovo

Commercially, chicks can only be sexed after they hatch, requiring producers to devote time and resources to incubating male chicks, only to cull them. This research is further developing and scaling in-ovo sexing technology that measures a naturally occurring biomarker within the embryos’ waste fluid. This fluid differs between the sexes, allowing sorting the eggs by sex on the ninth day of development with high accuracy.

Developing Smart Breeding Methods to Increase Crop Resilience 

Using the power of functional genomics and genetics to reduce keel bone damage 

Year Awarded  2023

FFAR award amount   $1,489,326

Total award amount   $3,991,105

Location   Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Program   Layer Hen Keel Bone Health Program

Matching Funders   Hy-Line International; Lohmann Breeders GmbH; Open Philanthropy; Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Universidad de Granada; University of Alberta

Grantee Institution   University of Edinburgh

The Layer Hen Keel Bone Health program seeks to improve welfare in commercial laying hens and increase farmer productivity. This research team is using x-ray images and machine learning to refine and validate the measurements of bone quality and keel damage in living hens to inform the selection of hens to reduce keel bone damage. This work is also examining if breeding programs for improved keel health need to vary depending upon poultry housing design.

FFAR Vet Student Fellow Research Spotlight 

Agricultural study in progress.

Anna Schaubeck

2021 FFAR Veterinary Student Research Fellow

AgMission™ Funds Global Producers’ Consultation to Improve Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption 

Year Awarded  2023

FFAR award amount   $192,000

Total award amount   $394,000

Location   Rome, Italy

Program   AgMission

Matching Funders   McDonald’s, PepsiCo, The Nature Conservancy

Grantee Institution   World Farmers Organisation

This grant is developing a novel farmer-driven methodology to consult U.S. and global producers to collect unique data and insights on their climate-smart agriculture needs and expectations.

AgMission™ Funds Global Producers’ Consultation to Improve Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption 

Plant-XR: A New Generation of Breeding Tools for Extra-Resilient Crops 

Year Awarded  2022

Total award amount   $31,948,325

Location   Utrecht, the Netherlands

Matching Funders   CropXR, Dutch Research Council, National Growth Fund

Grantee Institution   CropXR

CropXR is building, supporting and facilitating a development pipeline for more varieties of agricultural crops that can withstand external stressors. The research combines plant biology, computational modelling and artificial intelligence to create computational, functional plant models to predict and guide rational, targeted breeding and cultivation strategies.

Radiography could transform poultry breeding 

Breakthrough for FFAR Awards $1.4 Million to Purdue University, University of California, Davis and University of Edinburgh Researchers to Improve Health and Productivity of Egg-Laying Hens

World Water Week 2022 Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water 

Annual Meeting Stockholm, Sweden

Man watering plants with a watering can.