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Agave
Agricultural supplies, general/other
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Apricot
Aquatic plants
Arboreta and botanical gardens
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Banana
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Bedding/garden plants
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Bees, honey, and other pollinators, general
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
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
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
Kenaf
Kiwi
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lemon
Lentil
Lesquerella
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
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 Pollinators
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
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
item A Standing Committee for the Review of the Dietary Reference Intakes Framework
item Advancing Agricultural Research through High Performance Computing
item Advancing U.S. and Peru Relations Through Collaborative Genomics Research of Mutually Important Agricultural Crops
item Assessing the Effects of Conservation Practices on Crop Yield, Water Quality, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Corn Belt
item Awareness and Obtain Foreign/Imported Food/Beverage Items to Expand USDA Global Branded Food Products Database
item Biobased Pesticide Discovery and Product Optimization and Enhancement from Medicinal and Aromatic Crops
item Bioinformatics and Application Development
item Bioinformatics and Application Development
item Breeding Informatics to Benefit Agriculture
item Building Genomic Resources and Investigating Traits in Grass Species
item Building Tools for Specialty Crop Breeding Programs
item Computational Biology: Studying Species of Agronomic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Importance
item Continue to Obtain Food and Beverage Products for the USDA Global Branded Food Products Database
item Coordinating Breeding Informatics to Benefit Specialty Crops
item Developing a Cyberinformatic Platform for the Rapid Identification of Salmonella Outbreak Strains Using Population Metagenomics and Machine Learning
item Developing Abiotic and Biotic Stress-Resilient Edible Legume Production Systems through Directed GxExM Research
item Developing Intelligent Tools for High-throughput Crop Phenotyping
item Developing Sustainable Rose Landscapes via RRD Assessments and Breeding RRD Resistant Roses with Stable Blackspot Resistance
item Developing Sustainable Rose Landscapes via RRD Assessments and Breeding RRD Resistant Roses with Stable Blackspot Resistance
item Enhance USDA-ARS GBFPD and Expand use with Other U.S. Government Agencies
item Enhance USDA-ARS GBFPD to Support the FNS Food Distribution Program
item Extending Computing Infrastructure and Support
item Field Scale Assessment of Factors Controlling Corn and Soybean Production Efficiency
item Funding Continuous Dietary Reference Intake Process
item Genomes of Agriculturally Important Insects and Pollinators
item Genomic and Informatic Development for Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis
item Genomics of Malvaceae
item Identification of Insects and Mites of Importance to Quarantine and Biosecurity
item Improved Management of Nutrients, Water, Agrochemicals, and Energy to Enhance Agriculture System Sustainability
item Improving the Drought Tolerance and Sustainability of Turfgrasses Used in Southern Landscapes Through the Integration of Breeding, Genetics,...
item Integrative Applied Agricultural ‘Omics and Bioinformatics Research
item Leading the Way to the Future of GC-MS in Food Safety Analysis
item Machine Learning Integration into Breeding Programs
item Mapping Potential Human Exposure to PFAS from Domestic and Imported Food Packaging
item Modernizing Cotton and Other Crop Breeding Systems by Integrating Genomic Analyses
item Next Generational Agricultural Research - Through the Use of High Performance Computing
item NIFA Support for the Standing Committee on Evidence Synthesis, and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships
item Novel Commercial Farm-field Network to Quantify Emissions and Carbon Storage from Agricultural Bio-energy Feedstock Production
item Public Facing Website for Universal Database of Chalcidoidea
item Review of Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy
item Sex Determination of Eggs by High-speed Volatile Compound Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning
item Standing Committee on Evidence, Synthesis, and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships
item Swine Carcass Staging Risk Mitigations Study
item Systematics of Acari and Hemiptera: Plant Pests, Predators, and Disease Vectors
item Systematics of Beetles, Flies, Moths and Wasps with an Emphasis on Agricultural Pests, Invasive Species, Biological Control Agents, and Food Security
item Systematics of Insects and Mites: Plant Pests, Predators and Disease Vectors
item Technology Development, Evaluation and Validation for the Detection and Characterization of Chemical Contaminants in Foods
item The Development of Novel RNA Dependent RNA Polymerases, Nucleases, and Transposases by Metagenomics and Protein Engineering
item The Real-time Pen-side Detection of Bovine Respiratory Disease by Chemical Analysis
item The Real-time Pen-side Detection of Bovine Respiratory Disease by Chemical Analysis
item Transdisciplinary Research that Improves the Productivity and Sustainability of Northern Great Plains Agroecosystems and the Well-Being of the Communities They Serve
item USDA ARS Research Apprenticeship Program at University of Texas at Arlington
item Xenosurveillance of Flies in Wet Markets to Monitor for the Emergence and Spillover Potential of Viral, Bacterial, and Parasitic Pathogens