Project Grant 20203941033227

This Project Grant award of $484,154 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (CFDA 10.156). The funding will support advancements to the CALFDEX mobile app developed in a previous FSMIP grant, which helps cow-calf producers record and share animal production and health information. Key project objectives include: 1) integrating RFID eartag scanning capabilities to improve data accuracy and...

The North Carolina State University received a $941,497 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The goal of the project is to develop, coordinate, and expand bulk meat sales through an online direct marketing channel. This will increase farmer profitability, streamline processing, and improve accessibility, affordability, and availability of local, pasture-raised meats for...

Invictus Informatics LLC was awarded a $124,903 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a web-based data management system and companion database for livestock breeders and associations. The system will provide affordable data storage, management and analysis capabilities for high throughput datasets, including DNA-based animal identification, parentage testing and other...

The University of California, Davis received a $898,826 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP) program. The grant will support UC Davis in creating high-value market opportunities for small- and mid-scale meat producers in California over three years. UC Davis will work with two cohorts of producers, processors, buyers and strategic advisors in two regions of California to implement...

The Good Meat Project was awarded a $620,891 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. The grant will support the development of marketing capacity for 300 local meat producers in Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, New York and New Mexico through professional marketing materials and technical training. Specifically, the Good Meat Project will collaborate with five producer organizations in the...

Cowboy Country Processing LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA 10.180). The grant funds will support upgrades to Cowboy Country Processing's 1,100 square foot meat processing facility in Cape Fair, MO. Specifically, the award will fund improvements to processing equipment, packaging and labeling capabilities, and facility surfaces...

The Community Alliance With Family Farmers (CAFF) will provide cooperative aggregation and sales coordination services to small and socially disadvantaged farmers in Central California through a $723,740 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. Under the grant, CAFF will activate multilingual partnerships to help farmers collectively aggregate and sell produce to diverse buyers through a farmer-led aggregation model. Technical assistance,...

The US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to US Beef Producers, LLC on September 30, 2021 to establish beef processing capabilities for local producers in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. The funding supports the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program (CFDA #10.180), which aims to assist meat and poultry facilities with costs associated with obtaining federal inspection approval. Specifically, US Beef Producers...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,866 to Myaniml, a minority-owned small business, aims to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of an artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect bovine respiratory disease in cattle early on. The proposed solution involves an app that can automatically take pictures of cattle, use AI to analyze the muzzle, and immediately notify the cattle owner of any infected...

This Project Grant award of $220,818 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175) to support the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food systems. The grant recipient, Elm Creek Beef LLC, will use the funding over a 24-month period beginning September 8, 2023 to implement initiatives that develop direct producer-to-consumer marketing channels and...