Project Grant 20216701534081
Award Date
7/1/21
Completion Date
6/30/26
Dollars Obligated
$500K
Federal Agency
Institute of Food Production and Sustainability
Federal Grant Program
10.310
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Davis, CA, USA
Similar Awards
This $650,000 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on optimizing dairy calf management practices to improve long-term milk production. The grant period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2027. Specifically, the university will determine the individual and combined effects of pre-weaning heat stress...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $650,000 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 five-year grant will fund research exploring the use of mint plant extracts as alternatives to conventional drugs for pain relief, sedation, anesthesia, and euthanasia in livestock. Specifically, the university researchers will study the...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) will support the development and evaluation of biodegradable microneedle patches containing the pain medication meloxicam for use in cattle. Awarded on August 1, 2021 to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas with a completion date of July 31, 2025, this funding will allow the research team to engineer and...
This $800,000 project grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA 10.310), will support the validation of novel transcriptomic blood biomarkers of pain in cattle and swine. Kansas State University will work with the University of Adelaide to identify genetic markers in the blood of pigs and cattle that indicate the experience of pain after routine management procedures like tail docking and...
The University of Wisconsin System was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program to conduct research on assessing and improving the welfare of pre-weaned dairy calves and lambs. The key objectives are to: (1) examine how early life management practices shape an individual animal's social development, (2) determine how an animal's position in their social network predicts their response to painful procedures and how this...
This four-year, $800,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Cornell University examining the impacts of early versus delayed separation of newborn calves from dairy cows. The project has four objectives: assessing the effects of separation timing on cow and calf behavior/affective state, calf health/growth/immune...
This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program provides $650,000 to Kansas State University (KSU) to conduct research on assessing pain and heat stress in beef cattle. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Optimize and validate a Bovine Rate of Consumption Index (BROCI) as an objective measure of acute pain and the efficacy of pain relief drugs after surgical...
This $300,000 federal project grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to develop a novel multimodal sensor technology embedded into the nipple from which dairy calves receive milk at automated feeding stations. The key objectives are to: 1) develop this precision livestock technology (PLT) for calves fed milk via nipple feeders, 2) measure and characterize suckling behavior over time, and 3)...
The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College received a $798,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CFDA 10.310) to investigate how early-life calf management affects long-term behavioral development, emotional states, and physiological stress biomarkers in dairy cattle. The 5-year project will compare the impacts of enhanced nutritional, social, and cognitive environments versus conventional calf management...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program provides $152,575.77 to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College to conduct an observational study on dairy farms in the United States. The goal is to identify key animal and resource-based measures of welfare, including health, and understand dairy producer perspectives on farms...