Cooperative Agreement 1381301153CA

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the United States 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 $149,704.00 to the University of Florida to develop an automated fruit fly trap for use in the Puerto Rico Systems Approach for mangoes exported to the European Union. The project will involve training an image recognition algorithm to be used...

This Project Grant award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) aims to develop an automated pest management system for rural farms. The project integrates artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning to reduce reliance on manual labor and outdated pest management practices. Key objectives include automating the pest monitoring process, providing real-time pest...

This $649,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports Farmsense, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, in developing novel sensor technologies for precise insect pest monitoring and surveillance in agricultural settings. The project aims to create a system inspired by how bats detect and discriminate between different insects, allowing for tracking of insect pests down to the...

This federal Project Grant award, totaling $587,749.00, was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The award will support research by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) with the long-term goal of developing automated pest detection and surveillance capabilities for crops. The project aims to optimize low-cost samplers for...

The University of Tennessee received a $324,400 Project Grant award from the USDA's Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.329) to develop improved monitoring systems for stored product insect pests. The key objectives are: 1) optimizing traps for automated insect detection, 2) creating digital floor plan mapping of infested areas using advanced sensors and robotics, and 3) stakeholder engagement to beta-test the automated trap system. The project aims...

This $324,262 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program supports the development and validation of a grower-friendly, lure-free "trap cropping" system to monitor and manage key insect pests of apples in the Northeast. The research team has developed a novel approach involving grafting six pest-attractive apple cultivars onto perimeter-row trees to serve as permanent...

The Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Florida was awarded a $139,181 Cooperative Agreement from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) grant program. The purpose of this 12-month award is to develop and test a non-sticky, "dry" trap for monitoring the quarantine pest, tomato leaf miner (Phthorimaea absoluta; Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), as an alternative to the currently...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $981,168 Cooperative Agreement under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Solarid Ar LLC, a minority-owned, veteran-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned limited liability company. This 2-year project aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven insect trapping and identification system that can detect, identify, and quantify insects entering insect control devices in real-time. The primary objective is to...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded North Carolina State University $123,791 under the Cooperative Agreement to support field experiments testing and verifying the usefulness of a novel insect trapping design for delimiting surveys from June 15, 2021 to December 31, 2022. The work aligns with the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), which aims to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious...

This $123,814 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will support the development and delivery of pheromone-based detection and monitoring tools for economically dangerous exotic wood-boring cerambycid beetles. Funded under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program, key deliverables include new cost-effective pheromone traps and lures to help regulatory agencies and their partners conduct...