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Crowdsourcing variety performance data to boost performance, variety adoption and farmer empowerment
SBC: SEEDLLINKED LLC Topic: 812In today's tight agriculture economy, one of the most important decisions a farmer makes throughout the year is what type of seed to plant. Optimum yield, maturity, and disease resistance for a specific environment will secure farm revenue by creating better production and decreased use of inputs. However, in a highly consolidated industry where the top 3 players control 60% of the seed market ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
On Demand Nitrate Production for Fertilizers
SBC: LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED Topic: 813Statement of the problem or opportunity:The conventional approach to industrially producing nitrogenous fertilizers helps feed about half of the world's population but is energy inefficient and requires extensive infrastructure. Together, the conventional Haber and Ostwald use about 1 - 2 % of the world's produced energy and produce almost 3 % of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. A r ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Rapid, Multiplexed Detection of Algal Toxins in Shellfish
SBC: MBIO DIAGNOSTICS INC Topic: 87MBio Diagnostics is developing a highly sensitive, inexpensive, easy-to-use test system that will allow growers and regulators to more tightly manage shellfish harvests before, during, and after HAB blooms (see Figure 1). The Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) is a primary industry/regulatory cooperative body in the United States, tasked with fostering and improving the sanitation o ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Economic Electrochemical Denitrification of Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
SBC: SKYHAVEN SYSTEMS, LLC Topic: 87Skyhaven Systems, LLC intends to develop a novel water treatmentsystem targeted for use in removing nitrogen fromrecirculating aquaculture systems. Limitations of currentsystems include sensitivity to low temperatures, require a multi-step processfor effective nitrogen removal, have long start-up times, produce turbidity during recycling, and are expensive to scale in size/capability. The proposed ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
A novel approach to increasing and stabilizing bivalve shellfish seed supply: The mobile hatchery.
SBC: Oyster Seed Holdings, Inc. Topic: 87Shellfish aquaculture is a rapidly expanding agricultural industry in the United States, with landings more than doubling in the last 5 years and creating many new jobs. Culture techniques and the water-filtering nature of oysters make them a very low impact crop with arguably, a net benefit to the environment (a unique trait compared to other intensively farmed proteins). Comprised of salt and br ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Natural Immune Boosting Compounds as Alternatives to Antibiotics
SBC: ALTBIOTICS LLC Topic: 83Routine use of antibiotics at subtherapeutic levels in the livestock industry has been criticized for triggering antimicrobial resistance. FDA has recommended the withdrawal of medically important antibiotics for production practices in the U.S. as of January 2017. Although various alternatives to antibiotics are currently on the market, none is able to match the efficacy of antibiotics. We recent ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
NEXT GENERATION FIRE PROTECTIVE GARMENTS INTEGRATING HYBRIDSHIELD THERMAL ARRAY TECHNOLOGY FOR IMPROVED WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER SAFETY AND COMFORT
SBC: NANOSONIC INC. Topic: 81Through the proposed USDA SBIR program, NanoSonic will provide wildland firefighters with lightweight, highly breathable, 2-way stretch fire protective garments with a previously unavailable combination of breathability, thermal protection, flexibility, and comfort during wildland firefighting operations. While current PPE garments meet NFPA 1977 standards, they are often criticized for their infl ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Swine Lagoon Treatment and Odor Capping System
SBC: PANCOPIA, INC. Topic: 84Large-scale swine production has grown dramatically in the past two decades, creating adverse environmental and health effects. In North Carolina alone, health impacts of atmospheric emissions are estimated to exceed $300 million. Coupled with environmental damages, this has resulted in moratoriums on new facilities, as well as tougher regulations for waste streams. An effective treatment and odor ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Sanitization Assurance Indicator for Food Facilities
SBC: MORPHIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Topic: 85The food supply chain consists of many potential contamination points including growing, harvesting, post-harvest handling, transport, processing, distribution, storage and packaging, and finally preparation by the consumer. There are 9.6 million cases of foodborne illness annually in US with an annual economic impact of $15.5 billion. Contamination also leads to spoilage of food and significant l ...
SBIR Phase I 2018 Department of Agriculture -
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering For Field
SBC: American Research Corporation of Virginia Topic: N/AThe use of sub-therapeutic concentrations of anti-microbial agents in animal feed has contributed to theproductivity of the U.S. meat and dairy industries by preventing infectious diseases, by decreasing theamount of feed required and by increasing the rate of animal weight gain. However, failure to observerecommended practices of drug withdrawal can result in concentrations of antibiotic residue ...
SBIR Phase I 1997 Department of Agriculture