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Improving Swine Production Air Quality

The Improving Swine Production Air Quality program is focusing on improving air quality on pig farms and addressing the Food Systems
The Improving Swine Production Air Quality program is focusing on improving air quality on pig farms and addressing the Food Systems

Program Contact

Constance Gewa, Ph.D.
Cgewa@foundationfar.org

Development Contact

Lauren Hershey
lhershey@foundationfar.org

Awarded Grant for Improving Swine Production Air Quality Program

FFAR, NPB Seek to Improve Air Quality on Pig Farms, Indiana

Year Awarded  2023

FFAR award amount   $500,000

Total award amount   $1,000,000

Location   West Lafayette, IN

Grantee Institution   Purdue University

FFAR, NPB Seek to Improve Air Quality on Pig Farms, South Dakota

Year Awarded  2023

FFAR award amount   $500,000

Total award amount   $1,000,000

Location   Brooklings, SD

Grantee Institution   South Dakota State University

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The Latest

Insights

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Illuminating Pest Management with the Help of the Washington State Wine Commission

Alexa McDaniel

FFAR Fellow, Washington State University

National Nutrition Month: FFAR’s Bold Solutions Addressing Food Insecurity

Dr. Constance Gewa

Senior Program Director

Engineering Beneficial Bacteria to Improve Human Health

FFAR Fellow, Echo Pan

The Map of Food: Why We Need a World Atlas of What We Eat

Nancy Brown

Every Day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Dr. Kim Paul, Dr. Kristin Ruppel

Founder of the Piikani Lodge Health InstituteProfessor of Native American Studies in the College of Letters and Science and director of MSU’s Native Land Project

News

The latest news and updates from FFAR.

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FFAR Accepting Applications for Harvest for Health Breakthrough Crop Challenge

FFAR Announces Harvest for Health Prize Criteria

FFAR Program Develops Underutilized Crops

Grant Aims to Reduce Food Waste

FFAR, NPB Seek to Improve Air Quality on Pig Farms

FFAR Grant Tackles Peanut Allergy

FFAR-Funded Periodic Table of Food Initiative to Standardize Food Analysis

FFAR & NPB Focus on Continuous Air Quality Improvement Efforts

FFAR & GAIN Announce Challenge for Screening Underutilized Crops

Converting Seafood Byproducts to Food

FFAR and NYSTAR Grant Helps RIT Examine Degradable Mulching Films

FFAR Grant Increases Dietary Fiber in Wheat Crop

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research Announces 100th Grant

FFAR Awards 100th Grant to Support Sustainable Agriculture in Blackfeet Nation

FFAR Grant Reframes Polarized Public Food Narrative

FFAR Grant to Accurately Predict Food’s Shelf Life to Reduce Food Waste

Innovative Consortium Reduces Post-Harvest Loss and Food Waste

FFAR Awards $1 Million Grant to Reduce Food Insecurity

FFAR Awards $540,000 Grant to Minimize Food Waste

FFAR Awards $1 Million Grant to Accelerate Data-Driven Innovation in Agriculture

Breakthroughs

Tools, technologies and strategies from the research we fund.

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Loyalty Shopper Card Intervention Creates Behavior Change

Breakthrough for Individually-targeted incentives, diet quality and health outcomes among adults

Increased Fiber, Same Great Taste

Breakthrough for Increasing Dietary Fiber in Wheat Crop

Connecting Growers & Markets

Breakthrough for FFAR Grant Develops Tools to Predict Consumer Demand, Reduce Food Waste

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