NIFA Invests $2.8M in Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics Research

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested $2.8 million in 10 competitive research projects as part of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Animal Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics program area priority (A1201). The program supports research on the development of novel quantitative genetic methods; national and regional breeding strategies; new phenotypes for improving selection criteria and/or high-throughput methods for on-farm recording of traits; and alternatives to control inbreeding. Research can be basic, applied or both. 

2024 Awardees

• Cornell University;
• Gordon Research Conferences;     
• Kansas State University;
• Texas A&M Agrilife Research;
• University of Illinois;
• University of Illinois;
• University of Missouri System;
• University of Tennessee;
• Utah State University;
• Washington State University.