Block Grant 15PBJA21GG01653JAGX

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $150,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to Cottonwood Ranch LLC, a for-profit, veteran-owned limited liability company. The agreement, with a performance period from January 2024 to September 2028, will fund ranch-scale trials and documentation of virtual fencing technology to manage livestock distribution and support sustainable rangeland management practices in sagebrush ecosystems. The...

This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research to understand perceptions and barriers to adoption of precision livestock farming (PLF) technology in the U.S. swine industry. Michigan State University will lead a team to complete five objectives over five years: 1) establish an advisory board, 2) survey farmers and veterinarians, 3) interview industry influencers, 4)...

Mighty Fine Poultry Processing, LLC will use a $220,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to develop infrastructure supporting local poultry producers in Michigan. Specifically, the two-year award will support the awardee in designing market and kitchen facilities, as well as distribution channels, for an USDA-inspected poultry processing facility situated between three cities. The...

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund Inc. (FSC/LAF) received a $210,000 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to provide outreach to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers through FSC/LAF's delivery of technical assistance and educational programs from...

The Livestock & Poultry Commission of Arkansas (LPCA) received a $288,240 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) to support animal disease traceability (ADT) activities from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The award was made under the USDA APHIS' Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), which aims to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), is intended to support national surveillance and response activities for foreign animal diseases in poultry. The $234,158 award to the Texas Poultry Improvement Association will fund efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian...

This $207,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) provides funding to the California Poultry Federation, Inc. to support poultry disease surveillance, National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) inspections and compliance, diagnostic testing, education, and outreach to the California commercial poultry...

This $155,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) supports The Peregrine Fund, Inc.'s efforts to preserve and restore grassland habitats in South Texas for the endangered northern aplomado falcon. The funding enables The Peregrine Fund to work closely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at refuges in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to manage thousands of acres of prairie using prescribed fire, mechanical, and chemical treatments....

This $150,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2, under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), will fund the Coastal Prairie Grazing Lands Coalition to work with landowners to develop sub-agreements for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of at least 650 acres of habitat for the Attwater's prairie chicken (APC), monarch butterfly, northern aplomado falcon, and whooping crane and associated species in...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $315,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) to the University of California, Davis. The award is for a 1-year project to conduct a quality assurance program for game fowl breeders in California, in order to protect the region from Newcastle disease virus and avian influenza. Key activities include creating, documenting, and...