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Project SummaryAccumulated snowpack is a major source of water throughout the United States. Accuratelymonitoring snow on the northern plains is a significant need for streamflow forecasting andreservoir management. This has been demonstrated by the US Army Corp of Engineersestablishment of the Upper Missouri River Basin Plains Snow and Soil Moisture MonitoringNetwork. The availability of a low-co ...

Huerto Rico LLC is an agricultural startup located in Puerto Rico that specializes in theproduction of gourmet mushrooms for the local restaurant market with a special emphasis onresearch and development of new strains based on understudied tropical mushroom species. Theteam has identified six native species of Ganoderma spp.; one of which species has never beendescribed in literature before. Reis ...

Topic 8.6 Rural Development Subtopic 2: Development of New Services November 3 2021Proposal: "Mobile PET Plastic Ocean Waste Recycler (POWER) Module" PIN 21-06FIELD 7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACTThe Opportunity.Alaska's beaches are covered with hundreds of tons of Plastic Ocean Waste (POW)that has been deposited into the water from a myriad of counties including Russia Japan Korea Chinaand the United ...

The project's goal is to enable machine learning ("AI") enabled pollinator ID and behavior detectionon agricultural producer lands where detection units send insect IDs and behavior counts back tothe producer. Our objective is to build on an existing USDA open-source automated insectidentification device that can already send machine vision results back to the farmer.All camera-based computer visi ...

The goal of this project is to develop a business to produce and sell Deep Ocean Water (DOW)as a nutraceutical beverage in one or more coastal Alaska communities.DOW is seawater atobtained ocean depths of 250-1500 meters.It has these characteristics: low temperature highpurity and high concentrations (relative to surface seawater and to most mineral waters) ofbeneficial mineral nutrients.This appl ...

Broilers (birds produced for poultry meat) provide a very significant percentageof the global food supply.In 2018 the worldwide production of broilers was 98.4 million tons.The U.S.produced around 19 million tons of total broiler production with 3.3 million tons of this being sold asfood export(s).Export demands are growing due to population increases and loss of broilers overseasfrom Highly Patho ...

In this proposal we will take an interdisciplinary approach combining expertise in wheat geneticsand genomics with expertise in fungal insect pathogens to demonstrate feasibility of selectingendophytic entomopathogenic fungal strains effective for controlling both wheat stem sawfly andFusarium head blight. The project builds on previous research isolating endophytic fungalpathogens from infected s ...

The goal of our Phase I USDA-NIFA research contract was to develop a prototype Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) sensor and companion techniques that provide high-resolution snow property estimates to improve forecasting of water resources for agriculture and public consumption mountain weather avalanches floods and hydropower. Our measurement techniques involved the use of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar t ...

There is a critical need for technology to reduce drought induced crop losses on more than 45million acres of US dryland grown small grains.Montana BioAgriculture MBAI licensed patentsfor a plant symbiotic fungus Curvularia protuberata which confers tolerance to drought in wheatand barley.MBAI sees opportunity to bring C. protuberata to commercial use and to demonstratethe company's expertise in p ...

In an effort to address the need to cultivate inarable environments adapt tocontemporary climatic shifts and support agricultural productivity withoutexacerbating water insecurity PRatian (our team) designed and developed aprotoype for the NCPB bead a cost-effective self-contained hydration and nutrientbead capable of supporting the growth of an individual plant in inarable and harshclimates for w ...