Project Grant 20256701944443
- 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...
- 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 (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...
- 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...
- This $960,000 Project Grant awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Integrated Programs (CFDA 10.303) is designed to examine the effectiveness of biochar-based soil amendments on improving soil health, vegetable yields, and economic profitability for organic vegetable growers transitioning to organic production. The project will conduct on-farm learning trials and controlled experiments at university research centers to...
- This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides $749,954 to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant funds research to evaluate the impact of short- and long-term agronomic practices on soil health in mid-southern US irrigated row crop production systems. Specifically, the research aims to identify soil health...
- The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) was awarded a $179,304 Project Grant under the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to conduct research on the agroecological consequences of surplus phosphorus in agricultural systems. The project has two primary objectives: 1) conducting manipulative field experiments on collaborating farms to measure the effects of high versus low phosphorus levels on predation of insect herbivores, and...
- 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 $119,880 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports a predoctoral research project to analyze the potential benefits to soil health of reintroducing native arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in prairie restorations on post-agricultural lands. The research will examine soil structure, nutrients, the AM fungal community composition, and...
- The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $647,572 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program to Utah State University from June 2023 to May 2027. The project grant will fund research to investigate carbon cycling and microbial communities in degraded organic dryland wheat systems in Utah that require multiple years of soil-stored precipitation to produce a crop. Researchers will leverage established field plots...
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 Agricultural Area, and cultivated perennial pastures at a USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) site. The research aims to assess BARD's potential to enhance soil quality, adapt to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with the ultimate goal of improving food security and agricultural resilience. The project will be conducted by researchers at the University of Florida from December 2025 to December 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $750.0k | 12/10/25 |