This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) provides $125,000 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to conduct surveillance activities for the Cotton Seed Bug (CSB), Oxycarenus hyalinipennis, in California. The key activities include: (1) cotton boll sampling and visual inspections of...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. 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), will fund Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service to conduct field-level surveys focused on the cotton seed bug pest in Texas. The $110,000 award, with a performance period from August 6, 2024 to December 31, 2025, will enable Texas A&M AgriLife...
This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 $150,000 in funding to the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) to conduct a comprehensive pest and disease survey program in Arizona's nursery industry. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) continue ongoing surveillance for a variety of...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA Program 10.025 - Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care to the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA). The purpose of this award is to conduct a commodity-based survey to detect the presence of nursery and ornamental pests, including the Cotton Seed Bug, Box Tree Moth, and Pink Hibiscus Mealybug, in California. The survey...
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 Cooperative Agreement award from 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 program (CFDA 10.025) provides $117,078.00 to the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) for the period of April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. The purpose of this award is to support AZDA's regulatory enforcement, disease surveillance, and response activities to safeguard Arizona's diverse...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) awarded a $202,073 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the Arizona Department of Agriculture. The purpose of this 2025 award is to: Continue a comprehensive, statewide citrus greening disease (HLB) detection survey in Arizona, based on a USDA-APHIS risk assessment model. Visually survey for citrus diseases and...
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) was awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. 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). The purpose of this award is to conduct a commodity-based survey to detect the presence of nursery and ornamental pests, including the Cotton Seed Bug, Box Tree Moth, and Pink Hibiscus Mealybug, in...
The Arizona Department of Agriculture received a $1,633,132 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) for the period of July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The award will support the department's efforts to conduct nursery and retail plant pest surveys across Arizona as part of the Farm Bill Initiative - Plant Protection...
The Arizona Department of Agriculture received a $117,078 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 Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this award is to support the Department's activities related to regulatory enforcement, disease surveillance, and emergency response for safeguarding Arizona's diverse agricultural commodities, including...