USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested $4.4 million in 13 competitive research projects as part of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics priority area. The program supports research on the development of new 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; Iowa State University; Kansas State University; Texas A&M Agrilife Research; University of Illinois (2); University of Missouri System; University of Tennessee; Utah State University (2); Washington State University; and West Texas A&M University.