Project Grant 20236701939834
- This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will evaluate the benefits of using basaltic (volcanic) rock dust (BARD) as a soil amendment to improve soil health and sustainability in subtropical agroecosystems in Florida. The $749,999 award will fund research across two unique agricultural systems: row crop production on histosols in the Everglades...
- The University of Florida (UF) has been awarded a $749,785 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The 3-year project aims to enhance the sustainability of farming by integrating perennial grasses and cover crops into traditional crop rotations, along with optimal grazing practices. This approach will be tested at two field sites in North Florida to compare it...
- The University of Florida was awarded a $243,500 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Higher Education National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants program. The grant will support the development of a graduate education and research program focused on data science for soil health. A cohort of four Master's students and one PhD student will be recruited and enrolled in soil and water sciences, with a curriculum...
- The University of Florida was awarded a $649,934 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to conduct research securing resilient food production and safeguarding ecosystem services in agroecosystems under increasing climate variability. The three-year award, made under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program, will fund determination of how precipitation variability, grazing, and land management...
- The University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research was awarded a $749,353 Project Grant under the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310). The 4-year project aims to determine how combinations of cover crops, compost, and fumigation can alter the soil environment to improve the sustainability and resiliency of high-intensity specialty crop production systems in sub-tropical climates. The project will involve testing...
- This $650,000 federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), aims to study how small farmers in North/Central Florida use social media to market their agricultural businesses. The University of Central Florida (UCF) is the primary grant recipient, collaborating with the University of Florida (UF) as a sub-awardee. The project will conduct interviews and surveys to understand social media adoption among local small...
- The University of Florida was awarded a $1,615,906 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service under the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (CFDA 10.913). The grant will fund efforts to enhance irrigation management in vegetable farms in the Southeast US through February 2025. Specifically, the University of Florida will develop high spatial and temporal resolution root zone and soil moisture maps to support irrigation management and water...
- The University of Florida received a three-year $849,409 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310). The grant will fund research to elucidate interactions between plants, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, and mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural systems. Specifically, the University of Florida will work to enrich culture representatives of...
- This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $220,231.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA program. The project, titled "Interest in the Promises of Soil, and Agricultural Soil in Particular, to Sequester Carbon is Skyrocketing, Often Framed by Proponents Through the Slogan, 'Soil Will Save Us!'", aims to conduct ethnographic...
- This $885,789 federal Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program on July 1, 2024. The project aims to elucidate the interactions between silicon (Si) mobilization, carbon sequestration, and soybean plant physiology under saline soil conditions. The key objectives are to: (1) investigate Si mobilization and uptake in the rhizosphere and its effects on CO2...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $749,998 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. The grant will fund a research project to evaluate the potential use of fine sediment amendments to cultivated histosols as a best management practice. Specifically, the University of Central Florida will conduct laboratory and outdoor experiments from June 2023 to May 2027 to determine the ability of adding silts and clays to these carbon-rich agricultural soils to slow organic matter loss through formation of mineral-associated organic matter bonds. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of these bonds in histosols and help inform growers on improving soil health, resilience, and sustainability through this amendment approach. The grant was awarded under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative federal program, which provides competitive funding for agriculture, food, and related sciences research, extension, and education.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $750.0k | 4/27/23 |