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Year Awarded 2022
Total award amount $300,000
Location Atlanta, GA
Program SMART Broiler
Matching Funders McDonald’s Corporation
This project is one of three selected from the six research projects funded in Phase I to receive a total of $1.625 million in Phase II of the SMART Broiler program. In this phase, researchers will optimize hardware and software configurations, advance data management and processing tools for measuring key welfare indicators and justify commercial investment in these new welfare monitoring tools. The technologies will be tested at two broiler producing barns, Tyson Foods Broiler Research Barn in Arkansas and Master Good in Kisvárda, Hungary.
Year Awarded 2019
FFAR award amount $300,000
Total award amount $600,000
Location Blacksburg, VA
Matching Funders Virginia Tech University
Fruits and vegetables offer great benefits to our health but can be easily comprised by environmental impacts. Virginia Tech University research team is developing new ecologically based management practices for apples that can boost the content of health-promoting phytochemicals in fruit.
FFAR award amount $400,000
Total award amount $400,000
Location Davis, CA
Program Egg-Tech Prize
Matching Funders Open Philanthropy
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. SensIT Venture Inc. researchers are developing a chemical sensor chip to detect the volatiles and using machine learning to classify the eggs by gender. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
FFAR award amount $396,763
Total award amount $396,763
Location Gainesville, FL
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. US Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service researchers are using fiber optics and machine learning to analyze of volatiles and determine differences between male and female eggs. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
FFAR award amount $316,370
Total award amount $650,842
Location Belgium
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. KU Leuven scientists are developing a non-invasive ovo sexing technique that registers volatile organic compounds passing that pass through the eggshell during incubation. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
FFAR award amount $269,030
Total award amount $457,919
Location Morrisville, NC
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. Researchers at Microsale Devices LLC are using multidimensional spectral mapping technology that shoots waves of light at the egg and detects the refracted light patterns. Artificial intelligence will be employed to develop an optical fingerprint, or signature, that can determine the sex of eggs. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
Total award amount $1,149,911
Location Germany
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. Scientists at Orbem Ai are developing specialized technology to examine the organ development of embryos and detect physical differences between the males and females. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
Location Minneapolis, MN
As only female chicks are used for egg production, male chicks are culled after hatching. FFAR's Egg-Tech Prize is developing technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches so male egg can be used for other purposes. A University of Minnesota researcher is analyzing 3D scanner to analyze the geometric shape of the eggs and the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to identify the sex of the egg. This project is one of the six Phase I winners, who received funding to develop the necessary technology to compete for the Prize.
Year Awarded 2018
FFAR award amount $1,000,000
Total award amount $1,400,000
Location Davis, CA; West Lafayette, IN; Midlothian, Scotland
Program Layer Hen Keel Bone Health Program
Matching Funders Open Philanthropy Project
Bone fractures are one known challenge to raising hens in cage-free housing systems and are particularly prevalent in the keel, or breastbone. FFAR awarded three grants as the result of a competitive call for innovative proposals for research to reduce keel bone fractures in egg-laying hens.
FFAR award amount $614,067
Total award amount $1,228,134
Location Blacksburg, Virginia
Program Pollinator Health Fund
Matching Funders Virginia Tech
To protect honeybees, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University researchers are examining pollinator behavior in different landscapes to determine where and when supplemental forage is most needed to nourish pollinator populations. The research team is also exploring whether honey bee recruitment behavior, which is how a worker tells her nestmates where she collected food, is a reliable indicator of a viable habitat for native pollinators.
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