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The R&D goal is to secure water from renewable sources for water stressed regions. The R&D is toincrease overall collection of water from fog by one order of magnitude compared to fog net watercollectors (FNC). FNC collects fog water micro-droplets by impact on a net matrix. Its watercollection efficiency WCE is

Economic viability of beef cattle operations is dependent upon efficient production of calves whichdepends on reproductive efficiency of the operation. However numerous factors limit reproductiveefficiency in beef cattle including lack of cyclicity and difficulties in managing ArtificialInsemination (AI) programs including efficient utilization and fertility of AI.One solution is combining AI with ...

We propose a solution to greatly reduce the cost of biomass-to-power. This would improve thesustainability of forest resources by reducing the carbon footprint of decaying biomass and the costof wildfire prevention through forest fuel load reduction. It would also develop a value-addedproduct from woody resources (electricity) increasing the productivity of forest lands.Currently more than half th ...

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 ...

This SBIR Phase I project aims to develop a graphene-based handheld device for the rapiddetection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in fresh water.Clean and safe water is crucial forhuman health sustainable agricultural and food production healthy ecosystems and prosperousindustries.Water quality monitoring is one of the core requirements for managing water resourcesand calls for accurate and ...

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 Pecos Wind Power's USDA SBIR project is to demonstrate that increasing capacityfactor of small-scale distributed wind turbines is a technically and economically feasible solutionto providing lower cost electricity to rural areas nationwide. The concept will be demonstratedthrough research and development (R&D) of a high-capacity factor drivetrain for Pecos WindPower's 85kW distributed ...

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 ...

he contamination of shellfish with marine toxins produced during Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB)have become an increasingly common occurrence near U.S. shores. Consumption of contaminatedshellfish causes serious nervous and intestinal system illnesses which often require hospitalizationand fishing closures. The only way to minimize the risk to the consumer is to ensure that theshellfish product does no ...