The University of Florida (UF), through its Division of Sponsored Research, was awarded a $420,604.39 Project Grant from the Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to develop a novel system for fast and reliable detection of spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms in food. The proposed work includes developing a paper chromogenic array enabled by machine learning to detect and quantify the seven most common food pathogens and spoilage microbes across...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (CFDA 10.326) program to Florida State University (FSU) to develop an AI-enabled portable sensor for rapidly detecting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in food supply chains. The grant funds an integrated research and education initiative that applies artificial intelligence to address global...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) awarded a $150,000 project grant under the Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (CFDA 10.326) program. The grant will support Southern Illinois University's efforts to develop an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system to rapidly and accurately detect the presence of Salmonella bacteria in onion samples. The project aims to create a quicker, more effective method for...
The University of Florida received a $499,730 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. The grant will fund research from March 2021 to March 2025 to develop an imaging approach called FRESHID to objectively evaluate post-harvest quality attributes of fresh fruits and vegetables, such as maturity, storage ability, and firmness. Researchers...
This 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 improve the quality and production of fermented fruit and vegetable foods. Specifically, the $595,400 award to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) will assess the use of electrochemical methods and safe microorganisms to better control fruit and vegetable fermentations, with the...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $591,497 to Missouri State University to develop a smartphone-based lateral flow assay (LFA) technology for the rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of Salmonella in food samples. The goal is to create a simple, field-based test that can be used across the food supply chain to enhance public health...
This $274,550 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 federal grants program (CFDA 10.310) will fund the development of innovative sinusoidal-illumination imaging (SII) technology for enhanced quality detection of poultry. Mississippi State University will assemble a benchtop SII platform and evaluate its efficacy for characterizing and detecting...
The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $617,500 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant funding will be used to develop an AI-enhanced multispectral vision-based in-field apple sorting system. The key objectives are to: 1) create a multispectral imaging system integrated with a screw conveyor for full-surface fruit inspection, 2) develop deep learning models...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), aims to develop methods to improve the accuracy of yield monitor data and evaluate their effectiveness. The $591,250 grant, awarded to Mississippi State University on September 15, 2024, supports a 3-year project to create an open-source AI tool to detect and correct errors in raw yield data from precision...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $649,979 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Primelabs LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business. The grant will fund the development and commercialization of a low-cost, smartphone-based multispectral imaging (MSI) system integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) software. This system is designed to provide real-time insights into the...