Cooperative Agreement 1282010173CA

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by 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), supports oversight activities by state inspectors in Florida to prevent the spread of imported fire ants. The $114,539 award allows the Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services to conduct regulatory inspections, issue compliance...

This $180,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will fund survey and quarantine activities in Tennessee through December 2022. The awardee, Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Industries, will survey unregulated areas of the state for imported fire ants, assess sites for treatment or quarantine expansion if ants are present, and administer federal and state quarantine efforts to prevent the artificial spread...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) awarded a $125,591 Cooperative Agreement to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to provide oversight and inspection services for regulated nurseries in Florida. The award supports the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), which aims to protect U.S. agriculture from economically harmful plant and animal diseases and pests. Under the...

This $305,520 Cooperative Agreement award from 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) supports the California Department of Food & Agriculture's (CDFA) efforts to detect and prevent the spread of the Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA) within California. The key activities to be performed under this award include visual surveys and the deployment of protein...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs (CFDA 15.875 - Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories) provides $560,436 to the Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to implement proactive measures for detecting and mitigating the threat of the Invasive Pest Ligan Fire Ant (LFA) before it becomes established in the CNMI. The project will be executed over a one-year period and includes...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Department of Agriculture for the "2024 Arizona Nursery and Retail Plants Pest Survey" under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The project aims to conduct year-round, targeted inspections and surveys at high-risk nurseries and rose fields across Arizona to detect and mitigate the...

This Project Grant of $179,330, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329), aims to reduce the impacts on nursery producers associated with managing imported fire ants to meet federal quarantine requirements. The project has two key objectives: 1) Develop a detection and classification system using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and camera sensors...

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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) provides $115,250.00 in funding to the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) to conduct surveys for the presence of newly invading exotic woodboring insects in California. The key activities include deploying 60 traps baited with attractants to collect adult...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608), awarded a $813,154 Project Grant to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to eradicate Argentine ants from Santa Cruz Island, California. The grant, which will be executed from October 2024 to September 2027, aims to complete the final phase of this invasive species control project by treating the remaining 2% of the original infestation. Key objectives include conducting an...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $193,856 Cooperative Agreement to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to facilitate a nationwide "Don't Move Firewood" outreach campaign. The goal is to educate the public and partner agencies on safer firewood practices to reduce the spread of invasive tree pests and protect urban, suburban, rural, natural, and agricultural tree health. Under this CFDA 10.025 grant program, TNC will conduct...