Project Grant 21FSMIPTX1004
- This federal Project Grant award of $479,931.25, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (CFDA 10.156), supports the Texas Department of Agriculture's efforts to boost the consumption of products made in Texas. The key initiatives include: Researching and compiling a list of 50 potential new retail contacts, strengthening existing retail relationships through buyer meetings and on-site educational...
- The Rural Business Cooperative Services, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Pecan Nation, LLC under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA 10.175). The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will support the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food systems through initiatives such as supporting farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs, agritourism, online...
- The University of Tennessee received a $438,436 project grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service under the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (CFDA 10.156) to conduct consumer research and develop a digital marketing campaign to promote products participating in the Tennessee Department of Agriculture's Pick Tennessee Products program. The goal is to help add value to Tennessee's agriculture and forestry industries by providing consumer...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) awarded a $490,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M AgriLife Research. This 3-year grant, running from March 2024 to February 2027, focuses on developing germplasm and economic tools to establish a new U.S. market for high-oil content peanuts grown exclusively for oil production. The key objectives are to: 1) Develop peanut germplasm with increased oil content that can be grown with reduced inputs, 2)...
- This $649,348 Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to Oklahoma State University (OSU) aims to investigate how sugar concentrations affect the alternate bearing phenomenon in pecan trees. The research objectives include: Determining the correlations between sugar concentration, expression of SWEET transporter genes, gibberellin levels, and floral gene expression in pecan trees undergoing alternate bearing. Examining how changes in sugar...
- The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service received a $294,000 Project Grant award dated August 1, 2025, from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) to address consumer knowledge gaps regarding pork as a nutritious, affordable, and environmentally sustainable protein source. The program will develop and deploy comprehensive educational materials through the Texas A&M AgriLife ASPIRE platform,...
- The Texas Department of Agriculture was awarded a $1.59 million Specialty Crop Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program for the period of September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2024. Under this grant, the Texas Department of Agriculture will enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in the state through marketing and promotion efforts, assisting producers with research and development relevant to...
- The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) was awarded a $1,446,654.71 Specialty Crop Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Texas. The 3-year grant, awarded on Sep 30, 2023, will enable TDA to develop dynamic partnerships and programs that enrich the lives of Texans and cultivate the Texas specialty crop industry. As part of the grant, TDA is sub-awarding portions of the funding to other...
- This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture will fund $649,723 for research to characterize and map genes controlling fruit firmness and locule gel in the Texas A&M inbred tomato line TAM-SP18-157. The goal is to utilize these genes in cultivar development to promote local production of high-quality tomatoes with exceptional traits like firmness and lack of locule gel leakage. This research aims to deliver tomatoes with...
- The Texas A&M Agrilife Research will develop sustainable rose landscapes through rose rosette disease education and outreach, socioeconomic assessments, and breeding rose rosette disease resistant roses with stable black spot resistance. Funded by a $3.98 million Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative, this four-year award will support research and extension activities addressing key...
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service will receive $249,962 under a Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service to evaluate consumer preferences and producer benefits from marketing pecan products with varying health and taste information. The goals are to identify effective promotional materials that can increase pecan sales and provide a model for other specialty crop industries. The three-year project will first develop marketing messages in collaboration with pecan producers, the Texas Pecan Board, and the American Pecan Council. Experimental auctions with producers and an online consumer experiment will then generate evidence on how health and taste attributes influence perceptions. Finally, the developed promotional information will be tested with retailers to evaluate real sales impacts. In addition to enhancing existing pecan industry programs, the outcomes aim to inform a systematic marketing strategy for other specialty crops. The funding falls under the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $250.0k | 9/2/21 |