Cooperative Agreement AM23LPGMN000C012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $537,193 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University, an 1862 Land Grant College and educational institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The purpose of this 2-year agreement, which runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025, is to develop a new comprehensive training manual that will improve veterinarians' abilities to correctly identify foreign animal diseases. The project will deliver...

This federal 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 $146,577.00 to Texas A&M Agrilife Research to develop and deliver two one-week training courses for state animal health officials (SAHOs/state veterinarians). The goal is to enhance the emergency management competencies of SAHOs and increase readiness of the U.S....

The National Grazing Lands Coalition will deliver six Working Effectively with Livestock Producers training courses totaling approximately $622,800 under a Cooperative Agreement with the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service. The trainings will provide approximately 30 students each in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi with skills to work with livestock producers, meeting the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center Education and Development Standards...

This three-year, $650,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at Texas Tech University to better understand the cellular mechanisms that determine marbling and fat accumulation in beef cattle. The university will study the genetics and function of fat cell progenitors in different fat tissue types, including intramuscular adipose tissue (IMAT),...

This $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative (CFDA 10.304) program, will support the Breathitt Veterinary Center at Murray State University as a Level 1 member of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN). The funding will be used to: 1) Provide IT personnel and messaging support to enhance data reporting capabilities; 2) Maintain laboratory...

This $250,000 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist will fund research under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA #10.290). Oklahoma State University will lead a consortium of universities to conduct two research projects related to market concentration and sustainability in the livestock and meat supply systems. The first project involves a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of concentration and...

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) will support research at The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to study the regulatory dynamics of cattle development and differentiation across the lifecycle. The key objectives are to: Determine the temporal transcriptome dynamics and gene regulatory networks during bovine testis development. Determine germ...

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) received a $223,422 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture Veterinary Services Grant Program (CFDA 10.336). The objective of this 3-year grant is to develop and implement a multimedia approach to improve veterinary training capabilities and worker understanding and safety in the cattle industry. Key activities include translating current Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program...

The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will support projects focused on improving beef production among small cattle farms in Louisiana with less than 50 cows. Key services include the development and delivery of nutrition, growth, reproduction and genetics strategies to...

This federal 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 $152,893 to model the movement of finished cattle to harvesting locations across a 12-state region. The project will use the DIS "Commodity Flow" methodology to quantify cattle movements and create a database, maps, and movement matrices to illustrate the...