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UC Davis Receives FFAR Grant to Help Improve Vineyard Soil Health 

UC Davis Receives FFAR Grant to Help Improve Vineyard Soil Health 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $999,003

Total award amount   $2,600,000

Location   Davis, CA

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Jackson Family Wines

Grantee Institution   University of California Davis

Regenerative agriculture, which uses holistic farming and grazing practices to strengthen soil health and crop productivity, may help grape vines become more resilient to changing climate conditions. However, more research is needed to increase adoption of regenerative agriculture practices on vineyards. FFAR awarded a Seeding Solutions grant to the University of California, Davis to assess the effects of regenerative practices on vineyard soil health.

Genvax Technologies is Developing an African Swine Fever Vaccine 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $145,000

Total award amount   $290,000

Location   Ames, IA

Program   Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research

Matching Funders   Genvax Technologies

Grantee Institution   Genvax Technologies

Genvax Technologies is developing a non-living vaccine composed of self-amplifying messenger RNA, or saRNA. saRNA vaccines are genetically engineered molecules that trigger the immune system to make antibodies that can successfully attack and destroy an invading virus. Researchers will test the vaccine at USDA-ARS’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center to determine if the vaccine will protect swine when exposed to a virulent, or severe, strain of the virus.

Tuskegee University Endowment 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $1,000,000

Total award amount   $2,000,000

Location   Tuskegee, AL

Matching Funders   Clif Bar & Company

Grantee Institution   Tuskegee University

This award establishes an endowment to advance organic agriculture and farming practices in the Southeast through the university’s College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences. The endowment will also focus on increasing the equity in organic farming, including developing a network of organic research among Southeast academic institutions, with a focus on HBCUs.

Amplifying Underrepresented Voices in Agricultural Gene Editing 

Signature Event Montgomery, Alabama

Studying GMO plants.

FFAR and OFRF Announce Six Organic Farming Research Project Awardees 

ICASA: Antimicrobial Use Monitoring and Benchmarking in U.S. Feedyards 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $200,000

Total award amount   $400,022

Location   Manhattan, TX

Matching Funders   Cargill, Kansas State University, Tyson Foods and Yum! Brands

Grantee Institution   Kansas State University

Kansas State University researchers are developing a sustainable, practical system for individual beef producers to evaluate and report their antimicrobial usage in context of others across the beef feedlot industry.

ICASA: Defining the contribution of acidosis to the liver abscess complex using novel challenge model to delineate impacts of diet composition and feeding management on liver abscess pathogenesis 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $266,748

Total award amount   $542,475

Location   Canyon, TX

Matching Funders   Cactus Feeders and West Texas A&M University

Grantee Institution   West Texas A&M University

West Texas A&M University researchers are developing a unique, repeatable method that induces liver abscesses in feedlot cattle to further investigate the relationship between acids in the rumen, the first chamber of a cow’s four-chamber stomach, and liver abscesses.

ICASA: Novel Strategies to Improve Understanding of Liver Abscess Formation and Mitigation in Beef Cattle 

Year Awarded  2022

FFAR award amount   $125,000

Total award amount   $250,000

Location   Lubbock, TX

Matching Funders   Texas Tech University

Grantee Institution   Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University researchers are investigating the gastrointestinal location, concentration and movement of F. necrophorum and Salmonella enterica, as well as the other organisms that live in the intestines of cattle with liver abscesses. This first phase of this research will inform a methodology to reduce F. necrophorum through a direct-fed microbial.