Cooperative Agreement 5830702231

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310) to North Dakota State University for a project titled "Diverse and Dynamic Microbial Communities in Cattle." The four-year project, running from June 2022 to May 2026, will evaluate the impact of altering maternal microbiota in beef cattle via high forage or high concentrate diets on offspring...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Purdue University $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to conduct research from June 2023 to May 2027 related to beef cattle production efficiency and health. Specifically, the university will analyze changes in the ruminal, intestinal, and cecal microbiome of grain-finished cattle administered tylosin and monensin antibiotics to characterize...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to the Agricultural Research Service to fund research under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will support research from June 2023 to May 2027 focusing on the liver and blood microbiome changes and their relationship to ruminal acidosis in dairy cattle. The research aims to investigate membership and longitudinal shifts in the liver and...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will generate reference quality genome assemblies for rumen protist populations under a $247,720 cooperative agreement from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Funded through the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, this project aims to aid further research on the ecological significance and role in methane emissions of rumen protists found in cattle. Over a three-year period ending January 2025, the...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $640,000 project grant to The Ohio State University under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) to test the use of rumen-derived succinate-producing bacteria and red algae (Asparagopsis taxiformis) as an innovative approach to reduce methane emissions while improving feed efficiency in beef cattle. The research project aims to divert conserved energy from the inhibition of rumen methanogenesis towards...

This five-year, $650,000 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture aims to identify cattle that are more efficient forage utilizers under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Oklahoma State University will determine the most effective production stage to identify animals efficient at utilizing forage, including the replacement heifer period after weaning, during pregnancy at four years old, and after calving...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $225,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas. The grant will fund a 2-year research project to characterize the probiotic capabilities of commensal Corynebacterium bacteria isolated from the bovine respiratory microbiota. The goal is to evaluate the potential of these bacterial isolates to inhibit the growth...

This 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, provides $650,000 to the University of Florida to investigate the role of milk secretory immunoglobulin A on the rumen microbial ecosystem. The goal of the research is to understand how milk secretory immunoglobulin A impacts rumen microbial assembly, composition, and activity with the aim of developing...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $225,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass). The grant will fund a 2-year research project to quantify soil microbial function and diversity in support of belowground ecosystem services within restored prairies and conventional cropland systems. Specifically, the project aims to: (1) measure carbon and...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $499,913 Project Grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to support research titled "Risks Associated with Genetically Engineered Microbes in Beef Cattle Production: Evaluation of Persistence, Transmission and Ecological Consequences" from August 15, 2022 through August 14, 2026. The grant is being funded through the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research program, which aims to generate information...