Project Grant X8976662010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $167,562 Cooperative Agreement to North Carolina State University to develop simulation models that analyze the potential climate change impacts on plant pests and improve APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine's (PPQ) decision-making regarding pest response. The results will be integrated into APHIS's Spatial Analytic Framework for Advanced Risk Information Systems (SAFARIS), a web-based platform...

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...

This $232,690 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) supports honeybee surveys and sampling in 41 states as part of the National Honey Bee Survey. The purpose is to document the presence or absence of diseases, parasites, and pests of honeybees in the U.S. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) will receive live...

This $120,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of the award is to conduct a pest detection survey program in Washington state grape plantings to identify the presence or absence of three priority insect pests: Cryptoblabes gnidiella, Lobesia botrana, and Lycorma delicatula. The activities...

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...

Under this $115,954 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, North Carolina State University will develop algorithms and enhance ensemble models to map the distribution of agricultural pest hosts. Specifically, the university will create two new algorithms and ensemble mapping approaches, conduct case studies to evaluate their effectiveness, and produce outreach and training materials. Deliverables will include open-source...

This $150,000 Cooperative Agreement award was granted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The award will fund the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to conduct trapping and visual surveys to detect the presence of five priority insect pests in Washington state stone fruit orchards. Additionally, the WSDA will survey vineyards...

The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded $150,000 to Mississippi State University under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. The award will support APHIS' pest detection mission by providing taxonomic identification of samples from the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey to help enable early detection of exotic pest species....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $174,470 Cooperative Agreement to Cornell University under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 12-month project is to improve early detection of existing and newly introduced plant pathogens by providing training workshops and professional development to diagnosticians across the National Plant Diagnostic Network...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $182,270 to the State of Washington Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to conduct a comprehensive survey program to detect and identify high-risk, exotic, invasive organisms that could threaten Washington's agricultural and natural resources. The key activities under this...