Project Grant 2005WSQ50113

Global Neighbor, Inc. received a two-year, $650,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an agricultural product that destroys weed seeds collected during harvest. The award falls under NIFA's Small Business Innovation Research Program, which supports technological innovation to strengthen the national economy. Specifically, the grant will fund the construction and field testing of a prototype designed in Phase I to...

The University of Florida was awarded a $747,671 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310). The four-year project aims to enhance modeling of broadleaf weed emergence across diverse agricultural regions in the southeastern U.S. through several key deliverables. Researchers will develop deep learning models to detect and identify...

Michigan State University was awarded a $175,405 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The university will conduct research from June 2023 to May 2026 to deepen understanding of the mechanisms that enable common annual weed species to adapt to crop fields. The research will address the relative roles of evolution and plasticity in driving weed...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture received a $225,000 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region to implement the Washington State Integrated Weed Management program from March 2022 through January 2027. The award is being administered under the Forest Health Protection federal grant program (CFDA #10.680), which aims to protect and manage non-federal forest resources from damaging pests and diseases. Funding will support the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $350,000 cooperative agreement to Native Plant Trust Inc., doing business as Garden in the Woods, to develop a native seed network in New England and increase the availability of high priority native seed for conservation from September 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026. This award was made under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), which provides assistance to identify, conserve, manage, and enhance natural,...

The Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas has received a $294,000 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant aims to develop novel tools for integrated weed management strategies in cotton, targeting problematic and common weed species. The key objectives are to: 1) evaluate the effect of trinexapac-ethyl on herbicide activity, weed fecundity, and germination; 2) extend...

The award under Cooperative Agreement F23AC02013 funds The Understory Initiative, a non-profit organization, to implement the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. The $259,767 award supports the Understory Initiative's work to increase and improve native seed collection, genetic conservation, and native plant production efforts in the Rogue and Umpqua Basins of southwestern Oregon. This...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $300,000.00 and provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to conduct greenhouse and laboratory research to evaluate the growth, developmental, and genetic basis of spring wheat response to multigenerational exposure to weed competition. The key objectives are to: (i) assess growth and developmental changes in wheat, (ii) evaluate hormonal...

This $349,058 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (CFDA 10.935) program will support La Semilla Food Center's efforts to increase the urban impact of their Raices youth program and youth farm apprenticeship. The funding will enable La Semilla to train youth from underrepresented backgrounds in climate-adaptive desert agroecology, career skills, leadership, and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $220,890 Project Grant to Mississippi Valley State University to investigate the effects of Nicandra physalodes, a plant containing alkaloids, on the growth and development of noxious weeds, including Pennisetum clandestinum (Kikuyu grass), Echinochloa crus-galli (Barnyard grass), and Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass). The research aims to explore an environmentally friendly, cost-effective integrated weed...