Project Grant 201538504241091

Cooperative Agreement Summary The Office of the Chief Economist awarded a $150,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA 10.290) on September 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2026. The University of Florida will develop crop- and location-specific decision-support tools to address farmer demand for both short-term operational guidance (planting, harvest, pest...

The University of Florida was awarded a $1,188,351 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a privacy-preserving cyber infrastructure for collaborative smart farming. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will support the creation of a federated analytics framework to enable data and model sharing between agricultural farms while preserving individual data privacy. A novel...

This Project Grant award of $284,207.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research at Cornell University examining farmer decision-making processes related to climate adaptation through the adoption of new crop varieties. The key products of this 3-year project include: (1) developing a multi-scale modeling approach combining land surface modeling, satellite...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Vitidore, Inc. (Recover AG division) received a $1.25M Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), awarded July 15, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2027. The company is developing a multi-output machine learning modeling framework designed to reduce the cost of measuring soil carbon changes in agricultural fields by 80-90% compared to conventional soil...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to the Extension Foundation from October 2021 through September 2023 under the Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants program (CFDA 10.200). The award will support the Extension Foundation in developing a roadmap for implementing the five recommendations recently outlined in Cooperative Extension's National Framework for Health Equity and Well-Being. As the Special...

Cooperative Agreement Summary Purdue University received a $200,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Chief Economist under the Agricultural Market and Economic Research program (CFDA 10.290), effective August 30, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2026. The award supports critical updates to a widely-used economic model to ensure accurate representation of carbon intensities associated with U.S. agricultural feedstock...

Summary of Cooperative Agreement Award The University of California, Davis received a $498,215 Cooperative Agreement from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2027. The project enhances biosecurity information access and foreign animal disease (FAD) preparedness for small-scale and diversified farmers, ranchers, and producers, particularly...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded Colorado State University $957,085 under the Open Data Standards program (CFDA 10.233) on September 30, 2025, to develop TerraSCOPE, an integrated soil health modeling and decision-support platform. The project, which extends through September 29, 2027, will deliver a practical system that integrates grower-reported data with scientific simulations and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Missouri System, through its Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), received a $1.984 million Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist under the Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers program (CFDA 10.291). The award, effective from September 29, 2025, through September 30, 2026, funds a congressionally mandated policy research center that delivers...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program totaling $1,540,483 will support the development of a Virtual Data Collaboratory. The Collaboratory will create a federated data system accessible across institutional and geographic boundaries to foster interdisciplinary research collaboration. Seven universities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania will directly participate in constructing storage and data services infrastructure...