Project Grant 7200AA23FA00007

Agrospheres, Inc. received a $1.5 million cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel pest management solution for control of fall armyworm. The four-year award, issued on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2025, will support Agrosphere's efforts to deliver bioengineered dsRNA particles targeting fall armyworm using its proprietary bioparticle...

This $3,500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) program aims to improve management of the corn earworm pest in sweet corn production. Key activities include: Measuring overwintering success and early season activity of corn earworm, developing a spread model, and monitoring resistance to Bt toxins and insecticides. Improving integrated pest management through better adult moth...

This $324,979 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.329 Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program) aims to improve phosphine resistance management in insect pest populations in food facilities across multiple states. The key products and services to be delivered include: Optimizing an early warning phosphine resistance screening tool based on recessive allele frequency Conducting a survey of...

The Purdue University was awarded a $299,452 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, effective September 15, 2024 through September 14, 2026. The grant supports research to integrate open-source geospatial data, including high-resolution digital elevation models, soil survey information, and satellite imagery, to optimize soil sampling design for precision soil management. The project aims to develop an AI-based...

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) provides $225,000.00 to Colorado State University to investigate how different farming practices, particularly integrated crop-livestock systems, affect soil health. The research aims to identify practical ways to enhance soil health, increase crop yields, and contribute to climate change mitigation by improving...

This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research to enable the practical application of spectroscopy for in situ soil health assessment. The key objectives are to: (i) investigate different spectroscopic techniques for soil health assessment, (ii) study the effects of sample condition on soil spectra and mitigation strategies, and (iii) design, develop, and...

This $2,500,000 Project Grant was awarded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant supports research to evaluate the potential for using mixed species plant communities and breeding for genetic resistance as strategies to manage plant pathogens in perennial agricultural systems. Key objectives include developing a mathematical framework to predict pathogen dilution effects and impacts on productivity, as...

This $294,000 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) CFDA 10.310 program aims to enhance the climate resilience of cotton farming through improved soil health management. The Soil Health Institute, a non-profit research organization in Morrisville, North Carolina, will integrate realistic soil health effects into the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) (CFDA 10.310) totaling $749,045 is designed to comprehensively assess the long-term (10-15 year) impacts of early- and late-terminated cover crops on soil organic carbon pools and soil health indicators within the soil profile to at least 1 meter depth. The project will leverage two existing 10-year experiments in...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $749,936 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to the University of Wisconsin System to develop statistical tools and predictive models for pesticide resistance in the Colorado potato beetle. The purpose is to generate landscape-level risk maps that can guide targeted pest management strategies, addressing USDA priorities in agricultural production systems and the 2018 Farm Bill goal of developing advanced...