This $486,310 Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to establish an educational and training program on antimicrobial stewardship for historically underserved poultry producers. The overarching goal is to reduce the incidence and spread of poultry diseases while minimizing antimicrobial usage through practices such as good farming techniques, biosecurity measures, and strong...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) will fund development of an adaptable framework called CAMRADES to connect antimicrobial resistance, agricultural decisions, and environmental systems. Iowa State University will integrate predictive models of antimicrobial transport and associated human health risk into the...
This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The objective is to develop and implement effective mitigation strategies at the production level to limit Salmonella colonization in chickens and reduce the transmission of Salmonella to poultry products and humans. The grant will fund research to evaluate the efficacy of combining...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $650,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant is funding research at the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to develop "Transformative Platforms to Prevent and Control Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza." The research aims to advance scientific knowledge and innovative...
This $429,812 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001), supports strategies to control poultry-associated foodborne pathogens at the retail level. The principal awardee, Auburn University, will conduct comprehensive scientific research and development to make agricultural research discoveries, evaluate alternative research methods, and provide...
This $648,627 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund research at Auburn University from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2027. The grant will support research to better understand the microbial communities within meat processing facility biofilms and their potential impacts on food safety. Specifically, the university will collect biofilm samples from drains in small...
The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska received a four-year, $999,981 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program. The grant will fund research investigating the effects of antibiotic use on the ecology of the microbial community, antimicrobial resistance gene prevalence, enrichment, and transmission in the swine production system....
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), is funding research to better understand the underlying biology of drug resistance in parasitic worms that infect poultry. The $225,000 grant awarded to The Johns Hopkins University, to be completed by August 31, 2026, will be used to create a high-quality genome and protein models for...
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received a three-year $1 million 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 from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to assess antibiotic resistance in fresh vegetables from farm to fork. Sub-awards were provided to the University of California, Davis,...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $749,434 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant, which runs from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, supports three research and extension objectives focused on pastured poultry farming systems: 1) analyzing chickens' diets and impacts on pests, beneficial insects, and weeds through molecular...