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Agave
Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Annual grasses, other
Apple
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
Butter
Canola
Carrot
Catfish
Cheese
Chemurgic Crops
Cherry
Chinese tallow
Citrus, general/other
Clams and mussels
Climate
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)
Cultured aquatic animals, general/other
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
Endangered species
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
Grasslands, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Ground covers
Guayule
Gums
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Hemp
Herbaceous perennials and decorative greens
Honey bees
Hops
Horses, ponies, and mules
Ice cream
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Invertebrates, general/other
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Mango
Marine shrimp
Marketing, processing, and supply firms other than cooperatives
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
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
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
Sensory evaluation/analysis methods (human senses)
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
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
Wetland and riparian systems
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Northeast Area Cropland Emissions
item AI Innovations for UAS-Based Biomass Estimation and Regional Extrapolations in the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain
item AmeriFlux Management Project Core Site - Walnut Gulch/Santa Rita
item Assessing Legacy P Fate on the Delmarva
item Calibration and Validation of In Situ Soil Moisture Sensors at Marena Oklahoma
item Conewago Creek Watershed Monitoring at the Upper Chesapeake Bay LTAR: Enhancing the Prosperity, Productivity, and Quality of Rural Farms
item Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands), AMU
item Conservation Hub for the Economic Empowerment of Rural Stakeholders (CHEERS)
item Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes Phase 3- Stream Sediments
item Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes Phase 3- Stream Sediments
item Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes: Phase 3 - Stream Sediments - Beltsville
item Developing High Spatiotemporal Resolution Thermal Image Datasets For Monitoring Agricultural Water Use And Stress
item Developing Remote Sensing Metrics of Ecosystem Health for Grazing Management
item Enhancing Agricultural Management and Conservation Practices by Advancing Measurement Techniques and Improving Modeling Across Scales
item Enhancing the SWAT Model for Evapotranspiration Simulation
item Enhancing Winegrape Quality in Arid Regions by Water Stress Monitoring using Ground, Aerial, and Satellite Information
item Estimating Soybean Pollination Services from CRP and other Conservation Lands Assessment Project
item Examining Nutrient Cycling Associated with Cultivating Sterile Miscanthus x Giganteus on the Delmarva
item From Field to Watershed: Enhancing Water Quality and Management in Agroecosystems through Remote Sensing, Ground Measurements, and Integrative Modeling
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on Croplands) - Tifton
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies (on croplands)/ University Park, PA
item FY 2022 Conservation Effects Assessment Project - Benchmark Watershed Assessment Studies on Croplands - Choptank River Watershed (Beltsville)
item Ground-based Evapotranspiration Observations in Support of Remote Sensing-based ET toolkit for Improved Irrigation Management in Vineyards
item High Throughput Phenotyping of Crops Using sUAS-borne Imagery
item Impacts of Disturbances, Management Practices, and Climate on Ecohydrology of Water-Limited Lands
item Integrated Weed Management and Restoration Strategies to Protect Water Resources and Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystems of the Far Western U.S.
item IRA GHG Quantification Action Area #6 (M#6)- Improve temporal and spatial coverage of national conservation activity data.
item Linking Snow, Soil Moisture and Microclimate with Fuel Moisture: A Snowpack, Soil-moisture and Fuel-moisture Monitoring Network in Northern Arizona
item Long Term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR) Croplands Common Experiment
item Long Term Agrosystem Research - Assessment of Ecosystem Services Provided by Agricultural Systems
item LTAR Upper Chesapeake Bay Conewago Watershed Monitoring Project
item LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production - Phase 3
item Managing Water Resources to Foster the Sustainable Intensification of Agroecosystems in the Northeastern U.S.
item Manokin River Watershed Urea Monitoring Project
item Measuring, Modeling, and Mitigating Pollutants in Agroecosystems and Surrounding Landscapes
item Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Rangeland and Pasture Soil Health and its Drivers
item Modeling and Synthesis for the Pasture Ecological Vulnerability Index
item Modeling Pollutants in Agroecosystems and Surrounding Landscapes
item Modeling the Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes in Mahantango Creek
item Modeling Watershed Processes for Assessing Wetland Ecosystem Services
item New Remote Sensing Techniques for Ecosystem Water and Carbon Flux Estimation - Phase 2
item Optimizing nutrient cycling, capture, and removal associated with cultivating sterile Miscanthus x giganteus
item Optimizing On-Farm Nutrient Cycling, Capture, and Removal Associated with Cultivation of the Perennial Grass Crop Miscanthus x giganteus
item Performance Evaluation of Saturated Buffers in South Fork Watershed
item Plant-Soil Feedbacks Driving Cheatgrass Invasion
item Pollinator Ecosystem Services Assessment Project Project
item Prioritizing Weed Targets for Biological Control: Testing a South African Model for Western USA
item RaBET Development for Rangelands in the Western U.S.
item Remote Sensing Unique Species Identification
item Remote Sensing Unique Species Identification & Process Publication(s)
item Shifting the Balance of Water Resources and Interacting Agroecosystem Services Toward Sustainable Outcomes in Watersheds of the Southern Coastal Plain
item Snowtography Informing Timber Production That Conserves Water for Farms, Ranches, and Rural Areas in the Upper Green River, Wyoming
item Studying the Impact of Land Management, Conservation Practices, and Crop Improvement on Soil and Water Resources using Long-term CEAP Datasets
item Sub-field crop yield prediction using satellite remote sensing and machine learning
item Sustainable Intensification in Agricultural Watersheds through Optimized Management and Technology
item Synergies in Aquatic Plant Biological Control: Translating Research Between the Southern and Western USA
item The Mid-Atlantic Wetland Conservation Effects Assessment Project
item Understanding Ecological, Hydrological, and Erosion Processes in the Semiarid Southwest to Improve Watershed Management
item Watershed Legacy N – Source Determination and Influencing Factor Assessment
item Watershed Legacy N – Source Determination and Influencing Factor Assessment
item Workman Creek Snowtography