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FFAR Grant Combats Climate Change Through Soil Health Practices

2024 Seeding Solutions Request for Applications

Pre-proposals due April 3, 2024.

FFAR Grant Provides Technical Training to Enhance Soil Health

FFAR Grant Improves Soil Health Through Phosphorus Management

FFAR & Rodale Institute Enhance Soil Health to Increase Crop Nutrients

Year Awarded  2020

FFAR award amount   $997,455

Total award amount   $2,001,761

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Dickinson College Farm, Iowa State University, L&M Farms, Lakeview Organic Grain, the Pennsylvania State University, Quinn Farm & Ranch Rodale Institute, Stroud Water Research Center, the University of Delaware, and West Virginia University

Despite greater production of whole foods like grains, beans, nuts and vegetables, the average diet may be nutritionally deficient. Developing agricultural practices that improve the quality of soil and increase the availability of nutrients in crops is essential to ultimately enhancing human health.

Scalable breeding for plant growth to address the challenges of climate change

Year Awarded  2020

FFAR award amount   $796,878

Total award amount   $1,593,756

Location   Ithaca, NY

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   BASF, Limagrain, Virginia Crop Improvement Association

Climate change is creating increasingly unstable farming environments, leading to unpredictable yields and quality. Crop breeding programs aim to develop crops that can thrive despite climate instability; however, breeding programs face their own challenges in predicting how the climate will change and how crops will respond. One specific challenge to breeding programs is the lack of information about how plant genomes and growing conditions interact, and how that interaction impacts agronomic traits such as yield. Cornell University researchers are studying how different plant genomes respond to environment conditions throughout the entire growing season, with the goal of improving crops’ climate resiliency.

FFAR and NYSTAR Grant Helps RIT Examine Degradable Mulching Films

Innovations in Plant Genetics to Develop Intermediate Wheatgrass as a Next-Generation Sustainable Crop

Year Awarded  2020

FFAR award amount   $992,419

Total award amount   $1,985,206

Location   Minneapolis, MN

Program   Seeding Solutions

Matching Funders   Forever Green Initiative, Malone Family Land Preservation Foundation, The Land Institute

The University of Minnesota is accelerate the development of intermediate wheatgrass, trademarked as Kernza by The Land Institute, which is a perennial plant, meaning it requires only one planting. Not only do perennial crops like Kernza reduce labor and input costs, their deep roots reduce soil erosion and trap more carbon, benefitting the environment.

FFAR Funds the Future of Sustainable Perennial Crops

FFAR Grant Addresses Precision Irrigation Scheduling for Specialty Crops