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Year Awarded 2022
FFAR award amount $500,000
Total award amount $1,000,000
Location Plum Island, NY
Program Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research
Matching Funders National Pork Board
African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly and there is no commercially available vaccine to mitigate the spread of ASFV. Led by Dr. Douglas Gladue, USDA researchers are pinpointing the viral proteins involved in immunity and infection to develop a vector-based subunit vaccine, a vaccine that include a component of the virus to stimulate an immune response, for ASFV.
FFAR award amount $150,000
Total award amount $300,000
Location Manhattan, KS
Matching Funders MEDIAN Diagnostics
African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is a highly contagious, fatal disease in pigs that spreads rapidly and there is no commercially available vaccine to mitigate the spread of ASFV. Led by Dr. Waithaka Mwangi, Kansas State University researchers are using an adenovirus vector vaccine, which is a tool used to deliver target antigens to the host, and a paper-based diagnostic test that distinguishes vaccinated from infected animals.
Year Awarded 2020
FFAR award amount $25,000
Total award amount $50,000
Location San Antonio, TX
Matching Funders Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation
In addition to market volatility threats from COVID-19, Texas cattle ranchers are also battling the southern cattle fever tick (Rhipicephalus microplus), a tick carried pathogen that causes deadly cattle fever for which there is no vaccine or treatment. USDA researchers are developing biological control technologies to prevent and contain this parasite.
Year Awarded 2019
FFAR award amount $49,067
Total award amount $100,243
Location Minneapolis, MN
Matching Funders Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council, University of Minnesota
Turkey Arthritis Reovirus (TARV), a poultry virus that infects up to 70 percent of US turkey flocks, causes lameness in turkeys and economic losses for producers. University of Minnesota researchers are tracking how the virus is spread and when to best administer a preventative vaccine.
Location Knoxville, TN
Matching Funders University of Tennessee
The increasing prevalence of the invasive longhorn tick threatens American farmers, livestock, companion animals and wildlife. University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture researchers are mapping the tick's spread and developing response strategies to protect farmers, ranchers and their animals.
Location Pipestone, MN
Matching Funders ADM Animal Nutrition, Antiox, Kemin Industries, PMI Nutrition Additives, Swine Health Information Center
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus and Seneca Valley A (SVA) are deadly swine diseases that can spread through contaminated animal feed. Pipestone Applied Research is testing ten commercially available disease mitigants, or feed additives, to assess whether these mitigants can deactivate these and other swine diseases.
Year Awarded 2018
FFAR award amount $67,892
Total award amount $135,806
Location Gainesville, FL
Matching Funders University of Florida
Fusarium Wilt is a fungus that threatens the $70 million Floridian lettuce industry. University of Florida researchers are developing disease management practices and training lettuce growers to better manage cross contamination to reduce the spread of this disease.
FFAR award amount $87,691
Total award amount $183,206
Matching Funders Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Primary Fund
In 2014, a specific a strain of avian influenza, H5N2 HPAI, destroyed nearly 50 million birds, costing the industry more than $3.75 billion. University of Minnesota researchers are developing a nationwide tool to improve outbreak response and help producers mitigate foreign animal diseases on farms.
FFAR award amount $148,479
Total award amount $296,978
Location Fort Collins, CO
Matching Funders Colorado State University
Bacterial leaf streak, a new pathogen in the US, is causing yield losses for western corn belt growers. There has been little research on management strategies to limit the spread or severity of bacterial leaf streak. Colorado State University researchers are investigating bacterial leaf streak to better understand the pathogen and how to mitigate it.
FFAR award amount $100,000
Total award amount $200,000
Location Washington, DC
Matching Funders Land O’Lakes International Development
Experts estimate that in three years the fall armyworm could cause between $2-$6 billion in losses for maize, an African staple crop. In partnership with U.S. Agency for International Development, FFAR awarded the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize to six winners for digital innovations that help farmers manage the spread of fall armyworm.
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