Project Grant 20226701537086
- The University of Missouri System was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research aimed at improving fertility in dairy cows. The grant is part of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Specifically, the University will work to determine the underlying molecular mechanisms by which the protease cathepsin B impacts early embryo development quality in dairy cows....
- The University of Missouri System received a $649,999 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA Program 10.310. The objective is to develop a digital system that improves beef cattle production, enhances farm profitability, and provides small and medium-sized farmers with a climate-smart tool to address climate change. The project will use computer-generated surface area and volume data to...
- The University of Nebraska received a $650,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year project aims to maximize livestock growth efficiency and sustainability in the beef cattle industry. Researchers will study genetic variation in mitochondrial DNA, which is maternally inherited and critical to cellular energy production. They will associate...
- The University of Missouri System was awarded $500,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The project grant funding will support research and development of semen extenders to improve artificial insemination efficiency and pregnancy rates in swine and dairy cattle industries. Specifically, the university researchers will develop techniques to...
- The University of Missouri System will receive $1.3 million under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop high-throughput phenotyping for comprehensive animal traits. The funding is provided through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310), which supports fundamental and applied research addressing food and agricultural sciences. Specifically, the University...
- The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $648,370 Project Grant to the University of Missouri System under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI CGP, CFDA 10.310). The three-year award beginning May 1, 2023 will fund research to investigate the origin of cells that repopulate the uterus after calving in dairy cows and how postpartum uterine disease adversely programs their function. Specifically, the...
- This federal Project Grant award of $224,650 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research focused on understanding the effects of methionine supplementation in pregnant beef and dairy cows. The primary goals are to 1) assess whether methionine alters the DNA and gene activity of bovine embryos produced in the lab, and 2) determine if providing a specific amount of...
- The University of Missouri received a two-year, $120,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310). The grant funding will support research investigating the supplementation of a fibroblast growth factor 2, leukemia inhibitory factor, and insulin-like growth factor 1 molecule cocktail (FLI) to the in vitro bovine embryo culture...
- The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $800,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA 10.310) to the University of Missouri System from July 2023 to June 2026. The award will support development of a highly curated reference dataset for cattle that can benchmark variant call sets and provide comprehensive ancillary genomic data. The University of Missouri will generate reference...
- The University of Missouri System has been awarded a $987,000 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant will fund the development and validation of an automated sow estrus detection and decision-making system to improve management efficiency, reduce labor demands, and enhance the sustainability of swine production. The project aims to create a robotic imaging system to continuously...
The University of Missouri System was awarded a $640,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund research into nutrient partitioning in beef cows and calves and the role of epigenomic regulation. Specifically, the University will conduct two experiments to establish the effects of maternal nutrient availability versus fetal growth genetic potential on nutrient use by pregnant and lactating cows, fetal calves, and pre-weaning calves. Epigenomic regulation on the placenta and calf muscle will also be examined due to maternal nutrient availability and fetal growth genetic potential. The research aims to increase the efficiency and sustainability of beef cow-calf producers through improved management of pregnant and lactating cows based on breeding decisions. This is expected to lead to increased saleable calf weights and productivity on farms and ranches. The grant period runs from September 15, 2022 through September 14, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $640.0k | 3/30/22 |