The University of Delaware will receive $748,788 under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to examine innovative rice residue and water management approaches and their impact on soil health. Funded through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program, the University will address knowledge gaps regarding how choice of residue incorporation and water management practices in rice systems affects...
The University of Delaware received a $749,428 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310). The grant will fund a research project to investigate how legacy dams have influenced the physical, chemical, and microbial properties of riparian soils upstream and downstream in the Chiques Creek Watershed in Pennsylvania. The...
This $527,360 Project Grant awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research to support evidence-based policymaking for agricultural water conservation. The key objectives of the 3-year project include: 1) collecting irrigation water rights and runoff data to create a geospatial database, 2) exploring the impact of water rights and supply uncertainty on...
This $179,640 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, aims to improve understanding of nitrogen pollution in agricultural watersheds and develop better methods for managing and reducing this pollution. The project uses a combination of field experiments, sensor technology, and computer-based mapping tools to study the causes of post-storm nitrate enrichment - elevated nitrate levels in streams after storms....
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 Pennsylvania State University will receive $750,000 from the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to conduct research and develop tools to reduce nutrient, sediment, and chemical fluxes through riparian buffers impaired by concentrated flow pathways. Over a three-year period ending in July 2026, Penn State researchers will evaluate contaminant transport through concentrated flow...
This federal Project Grant award of $649,962, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, aims to understand the importance of jointly determined environmental and farm production risk in the design of agricultural policies. The research will focus on water quality management, especially in the context of climate change, using compensation programs such as government...
This $749,786 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research into conjunctive freshwater-saltwater management strategies. Oklahoma State University will develop and test an expanded SWAT-MODFLOW modeling framework called SWAT-MODFLOW-SALT to simulate spatially distributed surface water-groundwater salt fate...
This project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $649,697 to develop an integrated assessment model called Hydroecon to measure the social costs of nutrient pollution across the United States through 2026. The University of Massachusetts leads a team that includes Cornell University, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to integrate economic...
This five-year, $499,967 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund development of a regional watershed management internship program across seven universities in the Upper Midwest. South Dakota State University will lead the effort in collaboration with Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois, University of...