This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $199,907 in funding to Cornell University to develop a system for monitoring antimicrobial use (AMU) in dairy cattle. The project aims to create an AMU monitoring system that incentivizes farmer participation, automates data collection, and protects farmer privacy, in order to enable national-level AMU monitoring and support antimicrobial stewardship efforts....
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) to Kansas State University to develop the Long-term Antimicrobial Use with AI Web-crawler (LAMU-AI) platform. This 5-year project aims to (1) extract antimicrobial use data for major livestock and poultry species and (2) extend data collection to encompass minor species and companion animals. By integrating data from the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) and...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $245,014 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) will fund a study to monitor U.S. broiler chicken operations for antimicrobial use (AMU), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), animal health, and production practices, as well as analyze changes over time. The award was made on May 1, 2025, with a completion date of April 30,...
This $299,322 Project Grant award to Auburn University was issued by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The objective is to determine the impact of antimicrobial use (AMU) in poultry production on microbial diversity, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, and horizontal gene transfer in the environment. The research will compare AMR levels and animal health outcomes between antimicrobial-free...
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 $418,010.00 to the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) for the period of January 20, 2025 to January 19, 2026. The primary purpose of this project is to utilize and expand the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) analytics,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $250,000.00 in funding to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct a longitudinal study monitoring U.S. broiler chicken operations for antimicrobial use, antimicrobial resistance, animal health, and production practices. The study, which has a performance period...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a $162,501 Cooperative Agreement under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, for a pilot study on veterinary antifungal use and resistance. The two-year project, beginning August 1, 2024, will assess veterinarians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to antifungal resistance, risk factors for fungal infections,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $639,632 to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas to conduct research on controlling the transmission of Histomonas meleagridis, an intracellular protozoan parasite that can cause severe morbidity and mortality in turkeys. The research aims to investigate the role of cyst-like structures in the parasite's transmission, identify cellular...
This $1,150,000 Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the FDA Research program (CFDA 93.103), aims to improve understanding of the risks posed by raw milk and raw milk cheese products related to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, and to identify effective mitigation strategies. The project, led by Cornell University, will: 1) evaluate the efficacy of raw milk cheese aging on HPAI inactivation; 2) characterize the thermal...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to promote increased adoption of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices in the dairy industry. The grant, awarded to Michigan State University from July 2024 to June 2026, will: Determine barriers to changing antimicrobial usage (AMU) by surveying farmers and veterinarians in Michigan and Wisconsin to identify their beliefs,...