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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.

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

FFAR award amount $290,894

Year Awarded 2019

Total award amount $581,993

Location Auburn, AL

Matching Funders Auburn University, Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Georgia, California State Beekeepers’ Association

Traditional disease management often fail to prevent recurring outbreaks, which result in devasted crops. Auburn University research team is testing a two-pronged approach to transform disease management strategies and identify control approaches that are practical and profitable.

Vulnerabilities of Snowmelt-Dependent Irrigated Agriculture

FFAR award amount $177,754

Year Awarded 2019

Total award amount $355,509

Location Denver, CO

Matching Funders Colorado State University

Crops with high water demands and overuse of water supplies lead to water scarcity. Colorado State University researchers are investigating the reliance of irrigated crop production on snowmelt water resources globally.

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

FFAR award amount $259,207

Year Awarded 2019

Total award amount $518,413

Location Manhattan, KS

Matching Funders Kansas State University

Agriculture accounts for about 38 percent of the nation’s freshwater withdrawals. Excessive water use results in over irrigation which leads to damaging crops and soil. Kansas State University researchers are developing decision-making tools to help irrigators conserve scarce water resources while preserving their livelihood.

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

FFAR award amount $120,000

Year Awarded 2019

Total award amount $240,000

Location Stillwater, OK

Matching Funders Oklahoma State University

Plant pathogens can harm plants, reduce water quality and cause soil erosion. Oklahoma State University researchers are using high-throughput sequencing to determine what affects plant health.

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

FFAR award amount $297,907

Year Awarded 2019

Total award amount $599,310

Location Auburn, AL

Matching Funders Auburn University, Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Georgia, California State Beekeepers’ Association

Cattle infertility causes significant loss for cattle producers. Auburn University researchers are improving the efficiency of cattle production by identifying molecular markers that indicate reproductive potential. This research can help producers select cattle with the best reproductive capabilities.

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

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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

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

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

Developing Public School Curricula and Training High School Students and Teachers as Ambassadors for Pollinator Protection

Developing CRISPR-Cpf1 Genome Editing Technologies for Crop Improvement

Crops of the Future: Corn Drought Resistance

Crops of the Future Initial Project: Leafy Greens

Evaluation of Best Management Practices for Bumble Bee and Monarch Habitat

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

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

Effects of Multiple Stressors on Pollinator Health in the Southern Plains

Effects of Asymptomatic Listeriosis on Dairy Cattle Fecal Microbiota

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