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Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
Aquatic plants
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Baitfish (minnows and shiners)
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Berries and cane fruits, other
Biological Cell Systems
Blueberry
Broadleaf forests of the South
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Clothing and textiles, general
Cocoa
Coffee
Cole crops (includes cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower,
Conifer forests of the North
Conifer forests of the South
Conifer forests of the West
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cranberry
Crawfish
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cucumber
Cucurbits, other (includes pumpkin, squash, gourd)
Cut flowers, foliage, and greens
Dairy cattle, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Date
Deciduous and small fruits, general/other
Deciduous tree fruits, other
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Domestic and community water supply facilities and systems
Drainage and irrigation facilities and systems
Duck and goose, live animal
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Edible tree nuts, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Eggplant
Eggs
Experimental design and statistical methods
Feed and feed additives
Fertilizers
Fiber crops, general/other
Filbert
Finfish
Fish habitats
Flax
Florist crops, other
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grapefruit
Grapes, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Ground covers
Guayule
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Herbs and spices
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Invertebrates, general/other
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Melons (includes cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon)
Microorganisms, general/other
Milk
Mint
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mixed conifer-broadleaf forests
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Mushrooms and other edible fungi
Narcotic plants
Nectarine
Nematodes
Noncrop plant research
Nonfarm structures and related facilities, including those used in
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Onion, garlic, leek, shallot
Orange
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Ornamentals and turf, general/other (includes cacti)
Other animals, general
Other beef cattle products
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other cultured finfish
Other dairy cattle products
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other poultry products
Other swine products
Oysters
Papaya
Paper and pulp derived products
Parks and urban green space
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peach
Peanut
Pear
Peas (dry)
Peas (fresh, fresh-processed)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Peppers
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Pineapple
Pinyon-juniper
Plant research, general
Plum
Potato
Potted plants
Poultry meat
Poultry, general/other
Protozoa
Raisin grapes
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Raspberry
Red clover
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Research equipment and methods, general/other
Research on research management (not research management per se)
Rhizomes, tubers, bulbs, and root crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Rice
River basins
Rubber, gum, and resin plants, other
Rye
Salmon
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sewage and waste disposal facilities and systems
Sheep and wool, general/other
Sheep, live animal
Shellfish
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solanaceous and related crops, general/other (for potato use 1310)
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
Structures, facilities, and equipment, general/other
Sugar beet
Sugar cane
Sugar crops, general/other
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Sweet potato
Sweet sorghum
Sweetcorn
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
Table grapes
Taro
Tea
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Tilapia
Tomato
Trees, forests, and forest products, general
Tropical/subtropical fruit, general/other
Trout
Tung
Turf (includes bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, dichondra, fescue)
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viroids, mycoplasmas, spiroplasmas, etc.
Viruses
Walnut
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wetland and riparian systems
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Wildlife habitats
Wine grapes
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Wood and wood products
Wool fiber
Pasture
item Advancing Biological Control of Cheatgrass
item African Lungfish CTxA: A Toxin That Supports Terrestrialization And Barrier Protection
item An Evaluation of Alternative Crops and Production Systems in Western Arkansas
item Areawide Control of Spotted Wing Drosophila Using Parasitoids
item Areawide Management of Invasive Ants
item Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
item Areawide Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California
item Areawide Management of Spotted-Wing Drosophila
item Assessing the Potential for the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework to be Used in Watershed Planning Activities in the Eastern U.S.
item Assessing the Potential for the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework to be used in Watershed Planning Activities in the Eastern U.S. - NCSU
item Assessing the Potential for the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework to be used in Watershed Planning Activities in the Eastern U.S. - PSU
item Augmenting Microbial Biopesticides with Genetic Biocontrol for Improved Weed Suppression
item Bee Related Viruses in Pest Ants
item Biological Control of Invasive Pests in Agroecosystems and Wetland, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems in the Far Western U.S.
item Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Western USA
item Biological Control of Invasive Ventenata Using Plant Pathogens
item Biological Control of Invasive Weeds Degrading Public Lands
item Biological Control of Latin American Weeds and Insects
item Breeding Alfalfa for Intercropping with Intermediate Wheatgrass: Towards Perennial Grain-Forage Systems
item Catalyzing a Billion Dollar Cover Crop Seed Industry - Madison
item Climate Resilient Intensification Strategies for Forage Production with Small Grains and Millets
item Collection, Field Study and Shipment of a Candidate Biological Control Agent of Slenderleaf Ice Plant from the Western Mediterranean Basin
item Collection, Study and Shipment of Candidate Biological Control Agents of Ice Plants in South Africa
item Comprehensive Environmental Framework to Facilitate Resilient and Sustainable Intensification of Crop-Livestock Systems
item Comprehensive Soil Health: Conservation & Remediation Practices for Urban Agriculture
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems
item Coupling Human and Machine Knowledge to Optimize Tribal Food Systems (Booneville)
item Develop Methods to Mass Rear, Store and Release the Rosette Weevil, a New Biological Control Agent of Yellow Starthistle
item Develop Spatially Explicit Soil Property Maps for Precision Management for Forage Production for Small Farms
item Developing Farmer Decision Support Tools to Manage Alfalfa Winterkill
item Developing Sustainable Forage and Cover Crop Systems for Dairy Farms
item Development of Cheatgrass Biological Control with Microbes and Integrated Cape-ivy Control to Reduce Populations of Non-native, Invasive Weeds
item Development of Foundational Organic Research, Outreach and Education for the Mid-South Region
item Development of Spatial Soil Health Recommendations for Small Farms
item Discovery and Development of Microbial-Based Biological Control Agents for Use Against Invasive Weeds in the United States
item Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
item Discovery and Pre-Release Evaluation of Weed Biocontrol Agents
item Diversifying Ecosystem Services in Dairy Forage Systems
item Enhancing On-Farm Demonstration and Outreach Efforts for Alfalfa and Dual Purpose Cover Cropping Systems
item Establishment and Evaluation of Ganaspis brasiliensis to Suppress Spotted Wing Drosophila
item Evaluating Genotype by Environment Interactions in Intermediate Wheatgrass for Forage and Grain Production in Dairy Forage Systems
item Evaluation of Organic Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
item Evaluation the potential of the silvopastoral cattle production system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Peruvian tropics.
item Expanding Efforts in Cover Crop Cultivar Development: Focusing on Weed Suppression, Winter Survival, and Seed Production
item Expanding Regional Grainshed Asset Mapping and Resource Development
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia Crupinae for the Management of Invasive Crupina Vulgaris Populations in Idaho
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations
item Financial Health Workshop Series for BIPOC Farmers and Landowners
item Forage Applications for Hairy Vetch and Cereal Rye Research
item Foreign Explorations for Natural Enemies of Invasive Weeds
item Fostering Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Landscapes by Integrating Diverse Perennial Circular Systems
item FY2021, FY2022 Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes, Phase 2 (Temple, TX)
item Genetics, Ecology, and Biological Control of Invasive Annual Grasses - Albany
item Genotyping Red Clover for Seed Production
item Grazing with the Fun Guy (Fungi) – Small Ruminant Worm Control
item Improving Resilience and Diversification of Small Farms Through Agroforestry and Specialty Crops
item Improving Sustainability of Forage-based Production Systems
item Innovations for Small Farms Pasture and Silvopasture
item Institutional Biological Safety Committee (IBC) Agreement - University of Kentucky
item Integrated Management of South American Pests and Weeds
item Life Cycle Assessment of U.S. Milk
item Machinery Traffic Impacts on the Alfalfa-Corn Intercropping System
item Management of Invasive Weed Populations with Biological Control Agents
item Managing Alfalfa for Climate Smart Agriculture (DFRU)
item Measuring and Monitoring Environmental Variables that Impact Agroecosystem Resilience
item Measuring Field-scale Changes in Soil Ecosystem Services and Crop Production with the Integration of Conservation Practices in Dairy Forage Systems
item Modeling and Synthesis for the Pasture Ecological Vulnerability Index
item Modeling Pest Predation Services Associated with Land Use Change in Agricultural Landscapes
item Native American Soil Health Collaborative: Strengthening Soil Health Efforts among Indigenous Communities
item Outreach and Promotion of Regenerative Grazing Practices to Support Soil Health and Economic Resilience
item Precision Interseeding of Cover Crops Using Autonomous Robotic Technology
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
item Proactive Classical Biological Control of South American Tomato Pinworm in California
item Producer Engagement in the Development of a FarmLab Research Program
item Soil Health Collaborative: Evaluating the Social, Economic, Policy, and Biophysical Drivers and Barriers to Greater Use of Soil Health Practices
item Soil Health Collaborative: Evaluating the Social, Economic, Policy, and Biophysical Drivers and Barriers to Greater Use of Soil Health Practices
item Strategic Integration of Perennials in Annual Crop Production Systems
item Substainable Management of Invasive Pest Ants
item Sustaining Productivity and Ecosystem Services of Agricultural and Horticultural Systems in the Southeastern United States
item The Roles of Forage and Phytochemicals at the Plant-Microbe-Animal Nexus for Sustainable Ruminant
item Toxicology, Chemical Ecology and Management of Invasive Ants
item Use of Biochar in Agricultural Systems
item Utilizing the University of Kentucky Animal Care and Use Committee