August 4, 2017
USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced 40 grants totaling more than $15.7 million for agricultural research on the production of beef, dairy, poultry, pork, and fish that people consume every day. The funding is made possible through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill.
“To ensure a healthy and safe food supply, we need innovations,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. “NIFA investments help foster the discovery and translation of new knowledge into science-based management practices to help America’s agricultural enterprises thrive and meet growing consumer demand.”
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative is America’s flagship competitive grants program for foundational and translational research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. The AFRI Foundational program supports research in several priority areas, including animal breeding, reproduction, nutrition, and growth. These grants help improve the quality and efficiency of animal production in a variety of ways, such as through the creation of genetic databases, enhanced breeding methods, and research on the cellular, molecular, genetic, or whole-animal aspects of reproduction, nutrition, growth, and lactation.
Fiscal year 2016 grants include those listed below. More information on these projects is available on the NIFA website.
Tools and Resources - Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics
Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama, $500,000
University of California, Davis, California, $460,000
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, $500,000
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, $420,000
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, $500,000
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, $500,000
Gordon Research Conferences, West Kingston, Rhode Island, $25,000
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, Texas, $25,000
Animal Reproduction
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, $465,000
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, $480,000
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, $460,000
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, $150,000
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, $480,000
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, $5,000
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, $465,000
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, $480,000
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, $480,000
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, $480,000
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, $460,000
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, $480,000
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, $370,000
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, $480,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, $480,000
Animal Nutrition, Growth and Lactation
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, $489,800
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, $467,500
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, $499,626
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, $28,000
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, $483,000
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, $483,500
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, $484,000
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland, $148,422
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, $481,000
North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, $150,000
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, $484,000
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, $484,000
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, $484,000
Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas, $150,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, $500,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, $484,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, $337,500
Among these FY16 projects, a grant to Cornell University will investigate how microRNA molecules help regulate genes involved in milk production in dairy cows.
Source: USDA NIFA
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