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Kultevat Inc. aims to produce natural rubber from Taraxacum kok-saghyz (TKS) at scale toachieve high quality product at a price point that is attractive to customers in particular to US basedcompanies. To date the economics of growing TKS and extracting rubber from its roots at a pricepoint that is competitive with Hevea rubber has not been demonstrated. During Phase I research anRNAi gene silenci ...

Title: Tangler Trifecta Advanced Mating Disruption that Allows for Time and LaborSavings.Principle Director: Chandra Maleckas-BunkerNON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Many factors acting together including concerns about worker safetyfood safety pesticide resistance and new regulations governing pesticides have heightened growerawareness to reduce insecticide inputs and increase reliance on biopesticides. For ...

Project SummarySpandex sneakers car seats all contain 50-70% polyols. Today these polyols are made offshore fromfossil fuels. This USDA Phase II SBIR project will develop novel technology to make commerciallycompetitive polyols domestically from non-food biomass. The technical objectives are distributed benignextraction of hemicelluloses from almond shells efficient conversion of hemicelluloses to ...

PROJECT SUMMARYTitle: APEX-FLB: A Safe and Inexpensive Formulation for the Control of Stable Fly in LivestockIndustriesPD:Dangsheng Liang Institution:Apex Bait Technologies Inc.The overall goal of this USDA NIFA SBIR Phase II project is to innovate optimize andcommercialize Apex-FLB (Fly Liquid Bait) developed under Phase I research. Apex-FLB is aninexpensive and highly effective liquid bait that ...

LATERAL.systems: Edge Based Indoor Farming Monitoring PlatformUSDA NIFA Phase II Proposal Project SummaryFood and the future of food production needs help. The mission of LATERAL.systems LLC(LATERAL) is to enable next generation farming by accelerating the intersection of promisingmodern technologies to advance sustainable and ethical production of food. A promisinginnovation for meeting increasin ...

Project SummaryTitle: The Remote Autonomous Detection System (RADS) for Early Detection of the RedImported Fire Ant (RIFA)PIElman NoelInstitutionGearJump Technologies LLCCo-PIVander Meer RobertInstitutionUSDAThe Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) infest over 140 million hectares in the USA and costAmericans an estimated $8 billion annually for control and damage repair in several economicsectors includ ...

AgIntel a spinoff company of the University of Florida (UF) has licensed two novel technologiesfrom UF: Agroview and AgroSense. Agroview a digital twin of an agricultural field can deliveraccurate zone-based fertility and prescription maps for precision nutrient applications. Agrosensecan convert a traditional fertilizer applicator (sprayer or spreader) to a smart machine for precisionnutrient app ...

PROJECTSUMMARY Title: AdvancedGrid-InteractiveLoadEfficiency(AGILE) PD: BarhamTanyaA Institution:CommunityEnergyLabsINC Policiesnationwidearetargetingrapidadoptionofgrid-integratedbuildingstrategiestime-varying electricitypricesbuildingelectrificationandresiliency.Butadvocatesworrythattop-down innovationleavessmallerandmorevulnerablecommunitiesbehind. Thisprojectbringsaffordable gridconnectivityto ...

PROJECT SUMMARYProject SummaryProposed study is in response to the USDA NIFA SBIR Phase II Topic Area 8.8 "Biofuels andBiobased Products." Formology specializes in the innovation manufacture commercializationand sale of specialty wood and natural fiber panels for architecture and design/build markets; andwould like to meet the demands of the architecture and design (A&D) industries forenvironmenta ...

PROPOSAL ABSTRACTPhase II: Redesigning Floriculture Marketplace & Inventory Management Tools for SmallProduce Farms to Increase Accessibility and Reduce CostPD/PIs: Amelia Ihlo Annika Martell Justine McFarlandBackground: Rooted Farmers has developed a dynamic online platform that provides broadregional market access across wholesale and retail channels for small- and mid-sized farms. Ourcurrent pl ...