December 4, 2024 FFAR & OCP North America Announce Fertilizer Fellowship Awardees & Grant Opportunity
October 15, 2024 The Aim For Healthy, Productive & Environmentally Friendly, Southeastern Beef Calves Federico Tarnonsky FFAR Fellow (2022-2025), University of Florida
September 26, 2024 Using Artificial Intelligence to Calculate GHGs at the Individual Farm Level Dr. Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
September 24, 2024 Data for Dairy: Research to Guide Farmers in Their Sustainability Journey Reza Afshar Vice President, Soil, Feed and Water Research at Dairy Management Inc.
September 18, 2024 FFAR Seeding Solutions Grant Evaluates the Benefits of Converting Row Crops to Perennial Forage Systems
Loyalty Shopper Card Intervention Creates Behavior Change Breakthrough for Individually-targeted incentives, diet quality and health outcomes among adults
Novel Tools for Engineering Apomixis in Soybean Year Awarded 2024 FFAR award amount $1,950,000 Total award amount $4,050,000 Location Washington, D.C. Matching Funders Bayer, KWS, United Soybean Board Grantee Institution Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, University of Regensburg, Radboud University, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Zurich Although hybrid seeds outperform their parents in yield, this advantage does not transfer to the hybrids’ offspring. Breeders must continually cross-pollinate to develop the next generation of hybrids. Because soybeans reproduce through self-pollination, the structure of the soybean flower makes cross-pollination difficult and expensive. The ApoSoy project seeks to develop a cost-effective hybrid soybean system through a process called apomixis, which creates seeds that are genetic clones of the parent.
September 11, 2024 Greener Cattle Initiative is Game Changer for Dairy’s Future Dr. Juan Tricarico Senior Vice President, Environmental Research, Dairy Management Inc.