Cooperative Agreement 583AEU70001

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will receive $1.68 million through September 2025 under a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. The grant funds will enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Wisconsin through marketing and promotion efforts, assisting producers with research and development relevant to specialty crops, and expanding availability and access to specialty crops. Activities will...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will receive $1.27 million through September 2024 under a Specialty Crop Block Grant from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. The grant funds will enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Wisconsin through marketing and promotion efforts, assisting producers with research and development, expanding availability and access, and addressing challenges facing specialty crop producers. Measurable outcomes will be...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $812,615 under a cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Central Program Planning Coordination and Support. The funding is provided through the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to support research activities under the project "CIOA 3: CARROT IMPROVEMENT FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE WITH ADDED GROWER AND...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture received a $1,381,919.66 Specialty Crop Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (CFDA 10.170 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill) on September 30, 2024. The grant will be used to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Wisconsin through a variety of activities, including marketing and promotion, producer research and development, expanding availability and access, and addressing challenges...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will build and provide a user-friendly, web-based portal to automate the modeling process and estimate soil properties and soil health indicators from mid-infrared (MIR) spectra under a $299,892 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service. The portal aims to promote the goals of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) by optimizing environmental benefits on agricultural lands...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $609,541 from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of Wisconsin's farmland preservation policies. Leveraging geospatial and economic data, the University will evaluate how the state's planning, zoning, tax credits and preservation agreements impact landowners' participation in...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 Soil and Water Conservation), provides $374,182 to the University of Wisconsin System to install and operate edge-of-field water quality monitoring stations. The goal is to enable agricultural producers and scientists to quantify the impacts of conservation activities on water quality. The University of Wisconsin System will install two edge-of-field monitoring stations...

The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $400,000 cooperative agreement by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service to collaborate on establishing a regional soil health laboratory dataset for Wisconsin through September 2027. The agreement supports the Soil and Water Conservation CFDA 10.902 program, which provides conservation technical assistance to private landowners and organizations through professional conservationists. Through this...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $470,387 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Acer Access Development Program (CFDA #10.174) to advance maple syrup production in Wisconsin through September 2024. The University will design and deliver audience-specific educational resources and learning opportunities to address knowledge gaps among landowners, professionals and underserved audiences like farmers and tribes. This will...

The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $119,933 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to conduct research on optimizing sustainable practices in conventional agriculture by studying plant-microbe interactions in indigenous corn farming. The key products and services being delivered through this 2-year grant involve collaborating with tribal corn growers in Wisconsin to...