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Livestock production, including pork production, is expanding to address the growing demand for high-quality proteins. Precision feeding allows livestock producers to meet pigs’ nutrient requirements, while minimizing nutrient excretion and environmental risk. Reproductive sows represent an opportunity increase efficiency and reduce environmental costs. South Dakota State University researchers are assessing precision feeding formulations for pregnant sows to optimize reproductive performance and reduce environmental impacts.

The Hybrid Striped Bass: Understanding Heterosis To Improve Food-Animal Agriculture

FFAR award amount $300,000

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $600,000

Location Raleigh, NC

Matching Funders North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Program Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research

To enhance fish production and breeding, North Carolina State University researchers are using artificial intelligence to determine the genetic factors responsible heterosis, or instances of offspring performing better than their parents, in hybrid striped bass.

A Multi-Scale Approach to Unearth the Root of Plant Disease Resistance

FFAR award amount $299,757

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $599,513

Location West Lafayette, IN

Matching Funders Purdue University

Plant root diseases can cause lower yields. Some plant varieties are resistant to root disease, but the mechanisms underlying resistance are unclear. Purdue University researchers are examining how roots mediate disease-resistance by using tomato and a soilborne bacterial pathogen as a model.

Advances in Water Limited Irrigation Management

FFAR award amount $300,000

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $600,000

Location Davis, CA

Matching Funders Kansas State University and University of California, Davis

Projected increases in demands for food, feed and fiber will require more water. Semi-arid environments already face challenges in maintaining agricultural productivity under declining water supplies and climate change will exacerbate this challenge. University of California, Davis researchers are improving water productivity in agriculture by integrating data related to agricultural water use by several sources such as soils, weather and plant-based measurements.

Building Soil Health Through Rotational Diversity and Soil Microorganisms

FFAR award amount $299,962

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $599,923

Location East Lansing, MI

Matching Funders MSU AgBioRes

Crop rotations have been used to increase crop productivity for centuries, but little is known about how rotational diversity impacts soil microorganisms. Michigan State University researchers are addressing this research gap by studying the interactions between crop diversity, soil microorganisms and soil organic matter. The project aims to build soil health through rotational diversity and soil microorganisms.

Enhancing Crop Pollination, Pest Control and Yield in Urban Agriculture

FFAR award amount $210,618

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $421,236

Location Rochester, MI

Matching Funders Oakland University

Urban agriculture is a growing component of local and regional food systems. However, few studies focus on factors limiting crop productivity in urban environments and little is known about how insect pollinators and pests affect crop yield on urban farms. Oakland University researchers are investigating the composition of the insect community and evaluating strategies for enhancing ecosystem services provided by beneficial insects. The project aims to enhance crop pollination, pest control and yields in urban agriculture.

Going Back to the Roots To Transform Soil Health into Yield

FFAR award amount $285,083

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $570,165

Location Davis, CA

Matching Funders UC Davis Dean's Office

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.

Using Eye Tracking to Better Understand Food Choices

FFAR award amount $300,000

Year Awarded 2016

Total award amount $600,000

Location Ithaca, NY

Matching Funders ADM Animal Nutrition, Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH

When consumers make food choices, they choose between nutritional content and more immediate attributes, such as taste. Cornell University researchers are promoting healthier food choices by highlighting certain attributes of food choices through laboratory and field experiments.

Awarded GrantsBelow is a listing of our awarded grants that tackle big food and agriculture challenges.

Challenge Area

Consortia

Program

Scientific Workforce Programs

Location

Year

188 Grants found

OFRF and FFAR Fund Research to Enhance Organic Potato Nutrition

PIP Lettuce Project

Precision Bred Adaptation of Elite Taurine Breeds of Beef and Dairy Cattle

Genome Editing Wheat for Durable and Sustainable Disease Resistance

Integrating Community and Modeling Efforts to Evaluate Impacts and Tradeoffs of Food System Interventions

Finding the Proper Levers: Identifying Leverage Points for Tranformation in Urban Food Systems Through Participatory Modeling

Modeling the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood

Environmental and Nutritional Benefits of Food Recovery and Redistribution: A Pilot Assessment in New York’s Capital Region

Evaluating Food Access Strategies in Austin To Improve Healthy Food Consumption and Food Security

Conservation of an Endophytic Insect-pathogenic Fungus for Plant Protection in Organic Cropping Systems.

Cover Crops for Soil Health: Demonstration of On-Farm Trial

Biosolarization: Harnessing the Sun and Organic Matterfor Weed Control

Accelerated Development of Crops of the Future

Biological Control of Cattle Fever Ticks in South Texas

Noninvasive Wellness Monitoring of Broiler Growout Using Continuous Audio Analytics

Development of an Automated Broiler Gait Score and Flock Activity Assessment System

Smart Monitoring of Broiler Welfare using Camera Technology and Machine Learning

Innovative On-Farm Broiler Welfare Assessment Using Imaging Techniques

Flockfocus – Developing Automated Surveillance Tools to Safeguard Chicken Welfare

OpticFlock: Automated Monitoring of Broiler Chicken Behavior That Prioritizes Animal Welfare

Environmental Enrichment Effects on Pig Welfare

National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food & Agriculture Research

Genetic and microbial determinants of nitrogen fixation in a Sierra Mixe landrace of maize

FFAR and NYSTAR Grant Helps RIT Examine Degradable Mulching Films

Growing Policy From The Ground Up: Building, Deploying, and Testing Networks to Strengthen Urban Food Systems

Increasing wheat nutritional value through changes in resistant starch composition

Precision Irrigation Scheduling for Specialty Crops

Advancing Apple Production Systems to Boost Health-Promoting Phytochemicals in Fruit

Exploring Plant-Microbiome-Environment Interactions Towards Tailoring Plant Disease Management

Vulnerabilities of Snowmelt-Dependent Irrigated Agriculture

A Multi-scalar, Multi-objective Approach to Sustainable Water Management within Agricultural Systems

Metagenomic Probes for the Rapid Identification of the Microbiome Community in A Wheat Rhizospheremodel System

A Systematic Approach to Improve Heifer Selection and the Sustainability of Beef Production.

Improving the Nutritional Quality of Tomatoes

Harnessing Multi-Trophic Chemical Ecology to Obtain Sustainable Pest Control and Improved Soil Health

Kirchner Food Fellowship

FFAR Fellows 2019 Cohort

Tools to Detect and Understand Spread of African Swine Fever Virus

Age Susceptibility and Lateral Transmission of Turkey Arthritis Reovirus

A Microchip-based Chemical Sensor For Early-Stage in Ovo Sex Determination of Layer Chicks

En-ovo Sex Determination By Fiber Optic Volatiles Analysis and Machine Learning

Innovative Techniques for Fast in Ovo Sexing in Poultry By Detection of Gender Specific Volatiles

Multidimensional Spectral Mapping for Sex Determination of Avian Eggs

Orbem.ai: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Meets Artificial Intelligence for Automated and Non-invasive in Ovo Sex Determination

Rapid and Non-invasive Egg Sex Indentification Using Artficially Intelligent Platform

Ecosystem Marketplace Consortium

Spatializing the Environmental Impacts of US Dairy Supply Chains

Development of Prevention, Detection and Response Strategies for the Asian Lognhorned Tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis)

Partnership with Organic Farming Research Foundation

Partnership with Organic Farming Research Foundation

Addressing future global dairy demand: Targeting the gut-liver axis to promote heat stress resilience in dairy cattle .

Crops in Silico 3.0

Blackfeet Innovation Pathways to Food Sovereignty: Sustainability through Indigenous Applied Research Partnerships

Crops of the Future: Corn Drought Resistance

Employing Regional Produce Cooperatives to Enhance Household Nutrition and Reduce Food Insecurity

Evaluation of feed additives to mitigate the risk of viral-contaminated feed to pigs

Integration of Small Farmers into Technology-enabled, Rapid-response Fresh Food Supply Chains

National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Research

Partnership with Organic Farming Research Foundation

OpenTEAM

Stopping A New Threat to The Lettuce Industry in Florida: Fusarium Wilt

Improving Dairy Feed Efficiency, Sustainability and Profitability by Impacting Farmer’s Breeding and Culling Decisions

A Coupled Natural-Human System Approach to Solving Locust Plagues

Advanced Harvest Techniques Facilitate Food Safe Soil Health Practices in Almond Orchards

A Pipeline for Streamlined Development and Testing of Novel Controls for the Honey Bee Parasitic Mite Varroa Destructor

Bioindicators for A Sustainable Future: Dancing Honey Bees Communicate Habitats’ Ability to Feed Pollinators

Automated Computer Vision System for Tracking Individual Pig Activity and Locomotion in Nursery/Finisher Group Housing

Assessing & Expanding Soil Health for Production, Economics, & the Environmental Benefits v2

An Integrated Approach to Improve Whole Herd Pig Survivability

Can Commodity Crop Weed Management Practices Enhance Bee Abundance, Diversity, And Health on Agricultural Land?

Development of Environmental Conditioning Practices to Decrease Impacts of Climate Change on Shellfish Aquaculture

Development of a Farmer-Focused Disease Prevention and Preparedness Tool

Awarded Grants
Below is a listing of our awarded grants that tackle big food and agriculture challenges.