This $9,985,000 Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support The Ohio State University and its partners in developing an integrated policy and decision support system to increase the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAP) in the Midwestern Corn Belt region. The key products and services to be delivered include: New knowledge-guided machine learning models to predict land-based carbon sequestration An expanded...
This $10,000,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports the development and adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices in Midwestern U.S. cropping systems. The project is led by The Ohio State University with several sub-awardees, including Solutions From The Land, University of Missouri, Lincoln University, and Central State University. The key products and services being delivered under this award include: Establishing...
This $749,846 Project Grant was awarded on August 1, 2023 by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The goal of this project is to quantify the effects of carbon allocation to different plant tissues, symbionts and exudates on its turnaround and resilience in the ecosystem. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) validating estimates of carbon...
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $749,997 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to The Ohio State University on February 1, 2022 for research to be completed by January 31, 2026. The award will support research to characterize phosphorus transport processes through agricultural soils and improve representation of these processes in watershed-scale hydrologic models. Specifically, the university will conduct laboratory...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Oregon State University $649,333 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310) from June 2023 through May 2026. The Project Grant funding will support research to develop robust and computationally efficient methods for calibrating process-based, individual tree growth models using high resolution remote sensing data. Specifically, the university will establish...
Oklahoma State University will receive $647,895 under a Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to compare the technical and economic efficiencies of carbon-based forest management alternatives in marginal lands and degraded forestlands in eastern Oklahoma. The research will be conducted from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI CGP)....
The Ohio State University will receive $749,939 under a three-year Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study cover crops in the Western Lake Erie Basin through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. The University will identify management practices and biophysical conditions impacting cover crop biomass production and soil health, quantify within-field variability in cover crops...
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $799,996 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310). The three-year project aims to develop a decision support framework to aid stakeholders in choosing appropriate animal waste management practices. Researchers will compare untreated animal waste to waste treated with...
This $649,966 federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to identify and address scientific, legal, and social concerns related to emerging carbon market opportunities for farmers to sell soil organic carbon credits. The project will collect data through surveys, interviews, legal document review, and modeling workshops with...
This federal Project Grant award, issued under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310), provides $800,000 to Michigan State University to comprehensively assess the impacts of emerging carbon programs and financial incentives on the wood product supply chain. The primary focus is on understanding how these carbon initiatives could affect the wood products industries and carbon sequestration efforts. The...