Cooperative Agreement F16AC00047

This $250,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by 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) supports monitoring, survey, treatment, and outreach activities to prevent the spread of the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) pest in West Virginia. The State of West Virginia Department of Agriculture will conduct SLF surveys and pesticide treatments, primarily focused in Mineral...

This two-year cooperative agreement award of $101,707 from the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will fund a project at Michigan State University to assess radial growth and canopy condition of eastern hemlock trees treated with imidacloprid or dinotefuran to control hemlock woolly adelgid. Specifically, the awardee will quantify annual and mean radial growth and current condition of 110 hemlock trees with known histories of hemlock woolly adelgid infestation...

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $116,876 Cooperative Agreement to the State of Washington Department of Agriculture (WSDA) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The award will fund a 1-year project with a performance period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026. The project has two key objectives: 1) Continue efforts to increase public awareness and knowledge to encourage behaviors that safeguard Washington from the...

This cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service provides $602,652 to Bioprodex, Inc. to gather data for the registration of Verticillium nonalfalfae as a bioherbicide to control tree-of-heaven weed (Ailanthus altissima), a key host plant for the regulated pest spotted lanternfly. The award period is from May 1, 2022 through October 31, 2023. The work supports the agency's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $119,113 Cooperative Agreement to the Colorado Department of Agriculture to continue critical biocontrol activities in Colorado. The agreement supports the selection, rearing, and release of biocontrol agents to manage rangeland ecology, noxious weeds, and pests on Colorado's rangelands and throughout the western U.S. Key activities include identifying new agents, rearing them, and releasing them...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $182,270 Cooperative Agreement to the State of Washington Department of Agriculture (WSDA) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this award is to conduct a survey program that will result in the timely identification of high-risk, exotic, invasive organisms that could threaten Washington's and the nation's agricultural and...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded a $112,745 Cooperative Agreement to Washington State University under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to mitigate the effect of pathogens in the nursery setting, specifically by developing science-based best management practices and risk mitigation strategies to exclude, contain, and control regulated pests from the nursery production...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $194,921, issued by 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), aims to develop environmentally safe and effective biological control methods for citrus canker and citrus black spot diseases. The award to Texas A&M University-Kingsville will support activities such as isolating and culturing candidate beneficial microbes,...

This $211,105 Cooperative Agreement awarded by 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) will provide rapid response support to control and contain the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) population in North Carolina. The primary objective is to manage the known infestation in Kernersville, NC to prevent the pest's spread throughout the state and into new...

This $120,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by 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 the award is to conduct a pest detection survey program in Washington state grape plantings to identify the presence or absence of three priority insect pests: Cryptoblabes gnidiella, Lobesia botrana, and Lycorma delicatula. The activities...