Project Grant 201470005225374

This $946,348 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330) aims to address water stress and drought challenges faced by alfalfa growers in the Southern Great Plains. The key objectives of the "Drought Resilient Alfalfa Production (D-RAP)" project include: 1) Spatiotemporal quantification and management of water budgets in alfalfa...

The University of California, Davis received a $946,349 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330). The grant supports research to breed alfalfa cultivars that are resilient to late summer water stress and test commercial and experimental alfalfa cultivars under deficit irrigation conditions in UT and CA. The project aims to identify high-yield, drought-tolerant alfalfa cultivars and document water savings from deficit...

This $879,247 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) supports research and demonstration projects focused on partial season (deficit) irrigation strategies for major water-using forage crops like alfalfa and sudangrass. The primary objectives are to conduct research and demonstrations on these irrigation strategies to improve water conservation and efficiency in...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $745,200 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the Board Of Regents Of The Nevada System Of Higher ED, doing business as the University Of Nevada, Reno. This grant aims to develop an open-source, site-specific irrigation decision support system (DSS) to help farmers in the western U.S. more effectively manage deficit irrigation for crops like alfalfa, corn, and...

This $936,013 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Alfalfa Seed and Alfalfa Forage Systems Program (CFDA 10.330), aims to develop strategies for sustaining alfalfa productivity and quality in Colorado and Utah. The key objectives are to: Identify drought-tolerant alfalfa cultivars and alfalfa-legume/grass mixtures that perform well under reduced water availability through on-farm...

This three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will provide $749,890 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop and implement innovative agent-based modeling and diagnostic decision support systems to facilitate the use of non-traditional water sources and efficient water conservation practices for agriculture in the Mid-Atlantic region. The...

The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded Washington State University a $136,931 project grant under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001) to determine the efficacy of subsurface drip (SDI) versus surface drip (SD) irrigation delivery methods for optimizing water use in winegrape management. The grant period is from September 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. As part of the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research...

The federal Project Grant award of $999,091 from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will support research to quantify field to basin-scale water needs and evaluate the conserved consumptive water use from previous water conservation investments in the Southwest and Southern Plains regions. The goal is to understand realistic water savings from conservation investments in these areas facing increasing droughts and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $591,500 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to Colorado State University. The goal of this 3-year project, codenamed "Quench", is to estimate soil moisture content (SMC) at the root zone level for dryland farming. The team will produce SMC maps at 30m spatial resolution every 2-3 days, stratified by soil depth increments of 5, 10, 20,...

This $527,360 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) supports research at Utah State University (USU) to understand the mechanisms underlying farmers' water-related agricultural decisions and develop feasible policy options to inform the development of sustainable and resilient agriculture under present and future climates. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: 1) compile a geospatial...