Year Awarded 2016
FFAR award amount $285,083
Total award amount $570,165
Location Davis, CA
Matching Funders UC Davis Dean's Office
Grantee Institution University of California Davis
Soil health management practices are promoted as feasible, complementary approaches to high-input strategies to increase food production and decrease agriculture’s environmental footprint. However, the role crop plants play in using soil health to increase yields is often overlooked. University of California, Davis researchers are transforming soil health into yield by exploring the relationship between root systems, soil health and crop productivity to identify how producers can grow resilient crops using sustainable practices at scale.