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USDA Announces $1.35 million to Support Data-Driven Farm Management
Practices
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March
6, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food
and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.35
million in available funding to provide agricultural producers with training
and data to strengthen their business management skills. Funding is made
through NIFA’s Farm Business Management and Benchmarking (FBMB)
Competitive Grants Program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. Read the full press release here.
USDA Awards $500,000 through New Behavioral
Science Grant Program
WASHINGTON, March 6,
2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced two grants totaling
$500,000 to help pinpoint motivators that drive farmers to
adopt conservation practices and identify the roadblocks that may get in the
way. These awards are made through NIFA’s Behavioral
and Experimental Economic Applications for Agri-Environmental Policy Design
program, a new grant offering under the Agriculture
and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities program. This
new program is jointly funded by NIFA and USDA’s Economic
Research Service (ERS). Read the full press release here.
NIFA invests in and
advances agricultural research, education, and extension and promotes transformative
discoveries that solve societal challenges. NIFA support for the
best and brightest scientists and extension personnel has resulted in
user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that combat childhood obesity,
improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues,
increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate
variability and ensure food safety. To
learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign up for email updates or follow us on Twitter @usda_NIFA, #NIFAimpacts.
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