Cooperative Agreement AP26PPQST00C172
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas. The primary purpose of this 1-year award is to enhance the capacity of the U.S. berry industry by indexing, cleaning, and maintaining propagation material that is free of targeted systemic pathogens. Key...
- This cooperative agreement between the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas will provide $586,432 to continue building capacity at the Arkansas Clean Plant Center. The Center will deliver diagnostic services for seven berry companies, running 20 high-throughput sequencing runs, 6,000 polymerase chain reaction tests, and 12,000 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays annually over the two-year...
- The Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas will use a $225,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to ensure the continued operations of the Arkansas Clean Plant Center from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024. Under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program, the Center will maintain, distribute, and test pathogen-free berry crop propagation materials; perform...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded the University of Florida $124,783 in a Cooperative Agreement effective September 1, 2026, to validate a high-throughput sequencing protocol for detecting viruses in strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry/blackberry crops through an inter-laboratory comparison. The project brings together three laboratories—University of California Davis Foundation Plant Services, University of Arkansas Clean Plant Center, and Plant...
- This cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide $176,460 to develop diagnostics for three new blueberry viruses identified by the University of Arkansas Plant Virology Laboratory. Under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025), the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas will deliver universal reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and quantitative...
- This $1.26 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to Washington State University will support the university's Center for Plant Health to provide virus-tested plant material for fruit tree, grapevine, and hop industries through August 2024. Under the agreement, the Center will accept, test, and release commercially important cultivars free of economically important viruses for propagation. It will also retain and retest...
- This 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 $2,277,000 in funding to the University of California, Davis to support the Foundation Plant Services (FPS) Clean Plant Specialty Crop Program. The primary objective is to develop, maintain, and distribute high-quality, pathogen-tested propagation material for grapevines,...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $234,967 cooperative agreement to Livestock & Poultry Commission Arkansas on April 1, 2026, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) to maintain and improve animal disease traceability across Arkansas. The award funds assignment and application of RFID tags at all 33 Arkansas livestock markets, data entry and tracking of issued tags into the CORE ONE...
- The Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas received a $110,695 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service to develop universal reverse transcription (RT)-PCR and quantitative RT-PCR protocols to amplify isolates of three viruses. The award is part of the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA #10.025) and aims to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and...
- The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $165,733 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Maryland, College Park on September 30, 2025, under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award funds research to improve understanding of the citrus nursery stock industry's size and structure, the effects of clean stock measures and breaches, and monitoring approaches for reducing pest risk. Performance occurs in...
The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $390,000 cooperative agreement to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas on September 1, 2026, to enhance the capacity of U.S. berry industries by providing access to high-quality, healthy planting material. The Division will test, clean, and maintain propagation material free of all targeted systemic pathogens for blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry crops. Deliverables include cleaning 16–20 new accessions during the award period, maintaining current foundation accessions, and providing variety diagnostic services to the berry industry. The work supports public and private breeders, nurseries, and growers across the sector. Performance extends through August 31, 2027, with work conducted in Arkansas. This funding aligns with APHIS's broader mission to support specialized diagnostics and clean-plant operations for specialty crops; the Division currently operates the Arkansas Clean Plant Center, which maintains and distributes pathogen-free berry propagation material under prior-year APHIS funding.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $390.0k | 7/24/26 |