Cooperative Agreement 1081001532CA

Heliponix LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, received a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to develop a rotary aeroponic shipping container system. This system is designed to hold approximately 3,700 plants at a density of 23 plants per square foot, using vertical LED arrays, aeroponic mist, and soilless, compostable seed pods to...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $112,533.00, is funded 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The primary purpose of this agreement is to enhance the bio-indexing processes used to exclude pathogens from the production of germplasm source trees utilized by citrus nurseries. The project focuses on optimizing the growth conditions...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $723,078 Project Grant to the University of California Office of the President under the Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative program. Through this award, the University of California will investigate best practices for controlled environment agricultural systems suitable for small-scale urban food production. Specifically, the University will establish and study...

This $749,577 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310) to Purdue University will address key research and outreach objectives related to the use of vertical indoor propagation (VIP) systems for starting young plants. The project aims to: Model the energy requirements for VIP systems, Develop recommendations to reduce plant shrinkage and improve growth in VIP systems by evaluating light, quality, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $150,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) will fund the 2025 Arizona Nursery and Retail Plants Pest Survey. The key objectives are to continue ongoing surveillance for plant pests that threaten Arizona's nursery industry, conduct targeted inspections of high-risk nursery stock and pathways, and...

This $300,000 award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will fund the development and field testing of elite poplar tree varieties with reduced lignin content for more sustainable and efficient wood fiber production. The project aims to establish a short-rotation agroforestry system utilizing these genetically engineered poplar trees with enhanced traits for increased pulp yield and reduced carbon...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $112,745 Cooperative Agreement to Washington State University under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to mitigate the effect of pathogens in the nursery setting, specifically by developing science-based best management practices and risk mitigation strategies to exclude, contain, and control regulated pests from the nursery production...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program provides $649,954 to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (Ifos) to develop a scalable, multi-functional, distributed fiber-optic sensor network for precision greenhouse monitoring applications. The goal is to create a sensor system capable of quasi-distributed...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA Program 10.025 - Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care to the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA). The purpose of this award is to conduct a commodity-based survey to detect the presence of nursery and ornamental pests, including the Cotton Seed Bug, Box Tree Moth, and Pink Hibiscus Mealybug, in California. The survey...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to study the social impacts of integrating controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and non-conventional water treatment technologies. The $649,996 award to Clemson University aims to analyze stakeholder preferences for using non-conventional water sources, such as saline/brackish water,...