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Development of an agricultural digital lending platform for frontier and remote areas.
SBC: AGCREDIT CONSULTING, LLC Topic: 86Agcredit Consulting LLC (agCredit) is developing a collaborative business model and customer- facing agricultural digital lending application for rural-based community banks to attract and retainagricultural producers.From 2012 to 2017 more than 40 percent of rural counties lost bank branches (Federal Reserve2019). In rural areas there are less than 2 banks per 100 sq miles with deeply affected ar ...
SBIR Phase II 2021 Department of Agriculture -
Poultry Caretaker Robot to Improve Animal Well-Being
SBC: Birds Eye Robotics Inc Topic: 83American chicken farmers struggle to attract and retain the needed labor to operate farms that areexpanding in size and scale. Manual labor is currently required to walk up and down the barn tostimulate the flock and check on the birds. Birds Eye Robotics' proposed innovation the CaretakerRobot seeks to reduce labor costs associated with checking broiler barns and flock stimulationwhile improving ...
SBIR Phase II 2023 Department of Agriculture -
A multispectral imaging system for real-time prediction of beef tenderness and USDA grades
SBC: Goldfinch Solutions, LLC Topic: 85Beef tenderness is the most important trait influencing consumer satisfaction. Currently there is no method for real-time classification of beef by tenderness. Current beef marketing is based on USDA quality grades (Prime, Choice, and Select). Therefore, the beef industry needs an integrated system that can simultaneously predict beef tenderness and also USDA grades. In the Phase I study, we succe ...
SBIR Phase II 2016 Department of Agriculture -
Phase II- New Technology with Miniaturized Handheld Grain Combine for Eliminating Increasing Costs of Outdated Practices for Pre-Harvest Sampling
SBC: Windcall Manufacturing, Inc. Topic: 812Summary:The Phase I feasibility study proved the ability of the GrainGoat to replace a full-sized combine for the collection of grain for pre-harvest moisture testing with a potential savings to farmers and harvesters of $44M/day across the US during harvest season. The GrainGoat successfully harvested, threshed, and tested the moisture content in several crop varieties.Since the innovative GrainG ...
SBIR Phase II 2017 Department of Agriculture -
Ultrahigh efficiency ethylene scrubber to increase shelf life of fresh produce
SBC: Sonata Scientific Topic: 813Fruits and vegetables are a fundamental food resource and prolonging their storage life is acritical challenge for our society especially during storage and shipping.Ethylene is a planthormone that promotes ripening but in high concentrations (>100 ppb) it causes over-ripeningand increased susceptibility to pathogens and senescence.Reduction of ethylene to below 5 ppbis therefore a major opportuni ...
SBIR Phase II 2019 Department of Agriculture -
Epigenetic-mediated yield increases in Tomato
SBC: EpiCrop Technologies Inc Topic: 82A fundamental goal in agriculture is achieving higher yields per acre, in conjunction with similar or lower inputs, for higher profitability and more sustainable use of resources. To achieve higher yields, plants need to be more energy efficient to complement the trend towards breeding and farming at higher plant densities. To date biotechnology has been very successful at weed and insect control ...
SBIR Phase II 2017 Department of Agriculture -
Effective Reduction of Ammonia in Poultry Facilities
SBC: PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. Topic: 8300000000000001We are developing an innovative portable photocatalytic air purifier for economic reduction ofammonia concentrations in poultry houses completely converting the ammonia to water and N2end-products without NOx formation.Our solution will enabling improved poultry health feedconversion and weight gain while achieving net lowered operating costs through savings onpropane for ventilation make-up and o ...
SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of Agriculture -
High Efficiency Low Cost Electrochemical Ammonia Production
SBC: Proton Energy Systems, Inc. Topic: 84The Haber-Bosch process, one of the most impactful developments in human history, has provided enough fertilizer to the world that it is estimated nearly half of the nitrogen found in our bodies originated in a Haber-Bosch chemical plant. However, this technological marvel comes at a price. On U.S. farms, 29% of energy consumed (directly and indirectly) is in the form of fertilizers, and these sam ...
SBIR Phase II 2015 Department of Agriculture -
COMPACT EFFICIENT AND ECONOMIC SOIL STEAM DISINFESTATION
SBC: PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. Topic: 84Precision Combustion, Inc. is developing a compact steam generator as the core of a tractor-pulled agricultural soil steaming disinfestation system. Our prototype 550 pound steam generator is sized to disinfest ~1 acre of soil every 12 hours, at costs similar to applications of methyl bromide or other fumigant packages. Our technology offers an economic and practical alternative to fumigant soil d ...
SBIR Phase II 2014 Department of Agriculture -
Precision control of UV irradiance and ambient conditions to optimize the nutritional content, quality and consistency of indoor grown lettu
SBC: METROCROPS, LLC Topic: 812In the northeast there is an under-fulfilled year round demand for fresh, locally grown produce. The demand is partially measured by the steady growth (13% per year nationally) of farmers & #39; markets since 1995. Urban centers (cities) in the industrial northeast have a large inventory of under-utilized, structurally sound factory buildings of various sizes which are of little or no economic val ...
SBIR Phase II 2013 Department of Agriculture