Cooperative Agreement 0000058011115010

The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will receive $1,275,000 through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist to enhance drought information services supporting the U.S. agricultural sector. Funded under the Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers program (CFDA #10.291), the NDMC will work with multiple USDA agencies including Climate Hubs to improve the U.S. Drought Monitor product and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $737,332 project grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to Colorado State University. The 3-year project, beginning June 1, 2024, aims to develop a high-resolution, near real-time monitoring and forecasting system for agroecosystem drought and forage production in the Western Great Plains. The system will leverage satellite and ground observation data as well...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $745,200 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the Board Of Regents Of The Nevada System Of Higher ED, doing business as the University Of Nevada, Reno. This grant aims to develop an open-source, site-specific irrigation decision support system (DSS) to help farmers in the western U.S. more effectively manage deficit irrigation for crops like alfalfa, corn, and cotton....

This $946,348 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330) aims to address water stress and drought challenges faced by alfalfa growers in the Southern Great Plains. The key objectives of the "Drought Resilient Alfalfa Production (D-RAP)" project include: 1) Spatiotemporal quantification and management of water budgets in alfalfa...

This $591,500 federal Project Grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to Colorado State University aims to produce detailed soil moisture content (SMC) maps at the root zone level for dryland farming areas across Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. The goal is to generate SMC maps at 30-meter resolution every 2-3 days, stratified by soil depth increments of 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 cm. These...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) provides $649,965 to Texas A&M Agrilife Research to develop an Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS) called EcoHAWQS@Farm. The IDSS will help small and medium-scale farmers and local soil and water conservation managers assess the risks and benefits of adopting new conservation management practices to respond to drought and...

This $999,925 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture aims to develop climate-smart drought outreach and training programs for rangeland stakeholders in the western U.S. Key objectives include: Establishing a novel interdisciplinary community of practice called STEERS (Strengthening Extension and Education in Rangeland Systems) to co-develop climate adaptation programming with university extension, USDA...

This $266,280 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 Soil and Water Conservation) to the Routt County Conservation District in Colorado is designed to test innovative strategies and practices that improve agricultural drought resilience, climate adaptation, and sustainable profitability. The award, spanning September 2023 to September 2025, will fund the delivery of conservation technical assistance, education,...

This $620,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) supports South Dakota State University in developing a scalable decision support tool (S-DST) for equitable water resource allocation and drought mitigation in the Missouri River Basin. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year project include: (1) analyzing climate change projections to assess drought risks, (2)...

Texas A&M Agrilife Research was awarded a $649,976 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant aims to characterize water scarcity adaptation behavior in the western U.S. irrigated agricultural sector through empirical modeling of water delivery organization decisions, individual producer adaptation decisions, and the relationship between...