The Welfare of Agricultural Animals program area priority within the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Foundational and Applied Science program supports projects that evaluate current production practices; reduce transportation and thermal stress; further understand the effect of the microbiome on animal welfare, and the use of genomics; ethology; and noninvasive methods for welfare assessment.
Total Awards: 13 awards (all awarded) Total Funding: $7,479,253 Program Name: AFRI Welfare of Agricultural Animals (A1251) CRIS Link: https://cris.nifa.usda.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=fastlink1.txt&id=anon&pass=&search=(GC=A1251)%20AND%20(IY=2023)&format=WEBTITLESGNPL's: Kamilah Grant and Mark Mirando
2022 Awardees
- Iowa State University
- Oklahoma State University
- Purdue University (2 awards)
- Texas A&M University
- University of Florida
- University of Georgia
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Wisconsin–River Falls
- USDA Agricultural Research Service (2 awards)
- Virginia Tech