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FFAR is Making an Impact

We invest in research that produces actionable results.

Since 2014, we have accelerated food and agriculture research to deliver agile solutions that address large-scale challenges. Through public-private partnerships, we collaborate with diverse stakeholders to pioneer the next frontier of food and agriculture research.
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The future of agriculture urgently needs the funding and collaboration fostered by FFAR’s public-private partnerships. FFAR’s model is developing solutions to agriculture’s most significant challenges and deploying these solutions to farmers and consumers. Hon. Dan Glickman
Board Chair Emeritus, Past Chair, FFAR Board of Directors
Executive Director, Congressional Program Aspen Institute

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We invest in research that produces actionable results.

Since 2014, we have accelerated food and agriculture research to deliver agile solutions that address large-scale challenges. Through public-private partnerships, we collaborate with diverse stakeholders to pioneer the next frontier of food and agriculture research.
Dan Glickman headshot
The future of agriculture urgently needs the funding and collaboration fostered by FFAR’s public-private partnerships. FFAR’s model is developing solutions to agriculture’s most significant challenges and deploying these solutions to farmers and consumers. Hon. Dan Glickman
Board Chair Emeritus, Past Chair, FFAR Board of Directors
Executive Director, Congressional Program Aspen Institute

  • 360 grants awarded
  • $713M in FFAR funding allocated
  • 1:1.4 ratio of FFAR funding to matching funds

Results that go FFAR

Our Breakthrough outlines findings and successes resulting from FFAR-funded research.

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Research Pinpoints Why Dairy Cows Produce Less Milk in Warm Weather and Develops Nutrition-Based Solution

A new Cornell-led study funded by a Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) Seeding Solutions grant has found a nutrition-based solution to restore milk production in heat-stressed cows, while also pinpointing the cause of the decline. This study’s breakthroughs will inform further research that could reveal how different feed additives or changes to the staple diet of cows across the U.S. can sustainably increase milk production, even as temperatures continue to climb. Currently, sprinklers and fans are the primary ways used to mitigate heat stress on cows, but these strategies consume water, burn fossil fuels and only restore about 60% of milk production.

Pipestone Researchers Find Feed Additives Stop Viral Disease Spread

Radiography could transform poultry breeding

Our Impact

Our Impact Reports detail the results of FFAR's research and highlight our value for the food and agriculture sectors.

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Insights

Our Insights highlight unique perspectives from across for food and agriculture community.

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Building Team Chemistry: The Bigger Picture Behind Cows & Climate

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Conor McCabe

Animal Biology Graduate Student, UC Davis

Insight on Livestock Methane Mitigation

Dr. Rod Mackie, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Champaign, IL

FFAR Vet Student Fellow Research Spotlight

Anna Schaubeck

2021 FFAR Veterinary Student Research Fellow

Celebrating Innovation on National Egg Day

Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery

Director of Communications, United Egg Producers

How Heat Stress Impacts Swine Health

FFAR Fellow, Lauren Anderson

North Carolina State University

Dairy Cattle Metabolic Capacity: Milking It for all It’s Worth

Linda Beckett

2019-2022 FFAR Fellow

Climate change and Dairy Farming: Beating the Heat

Ananda Fontoura

2018-2021 FFAR Fellow

Research is Critical to Preventing the Next Pandemic

Tim Kurt, DVM

Scientific Program Director, October 2016- September 2022 Advanced Animal Systems

Vitamin A, Healthy Cows and Less Antibiotics

Jaime Strickland

2018-2021 FFAR Fellow

A Look at Maine Aquaculture

Tim Kurt, DVM

Scientific Program Director, October 2016- September 2022 Advanced Animal Systems

Breakthroughs

Tools, technologies and strategies from the research we fund.

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Research Pinpoints Why Dairy Cows Produce Less Milk in Warm Weather and Develops Nutrition-Based Solution

Breakthrough for FFAR Grant Helps Heat-Stressed Dairy Cows Weather Increasing Temperatures

Pipestone Researchers Find Feed Additives Stop Viral Disease Spread

Breakthrough for FFAR-Funded Research Finds Feed Additives Stop the Spread of Viral Diseases

Radiography could transform poultry breeding

Breakthrough for FFAR Awards $1.4 Million to Purdue University, University of California, Davis and University of Edinburgh Researchers to Improve Health and Productivity of Egg-Laying Hens

Initial Success Achieved in Ending Surgical Castration of Swine

Breakthrough for FFAR Awards $500,000 Grant to Improve Swine Health and Well-Being

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