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Agave
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
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
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
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)
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Striped bass
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
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
item Activated Carbon Seed Technologies and Indaziflam Application to Simultaneously Control Exotic Annual Grasses and Establish Perennial Vegetation
item Adaptive Management Research on Co-species Grazed Rangelands
item Agroecological Approach to Enhance U.S. Sheep Industry Viability and Rangeland Ecosystem Conservation
item AmeriFlux Management Project Core Site - Walnut Gulch/Santa Rita
item Assessing Impacts of Forest Structure Changes on Snow Water Resources in the Colorado River Basin
item Assessing Pollinator and Gall Response to Climatic Gradients and Fire and Grazing Management in Sage
item Assessing Wind and Water Erosion on Western Rangelands
item Assessment and Mitigation of Disturbed Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystems
item Assessment and Monitoring Tools for Adaptive Management of Large Ranch Landscapes
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) tool
item Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) Tool
item Benefits for Bee Health and Diversity from Drought-Tolerant Plantings (“Bee Pasture”) for Drought-Stricken Areas in the West
item Big Data for ARS Models to Assess Historical Hydro-Climatic Trends and Projected Climate Impacts at LTAR Locations-Phase 2
item Biological Control of Latin American Weeds and Insects
item Biological Control of Latin American Weeds and Insects
item BLM ARS Monitoring Effects of Invasive Annual Grass Removal on Native Vegetation
item Cattle Grazing Larkspur
item Causal Factors of Exotic Annual Grass Invasion Across the Great Basin Sagebrush Ecosystem
item CEAP-Grazing Lands Remote Sensing of Woody Vegetation
item Climate Change Adaptation Technical Assistance & Outreach in the Southwest
item Climate-adaptive Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Establishment of Diverse CRP Plantings in Drylands
item Collaboration on Tools to Manage Ecosystem Transitions for Agricultural Sustainability in the Americas
item Collaborative Animal Research between New Mexico State University (NMSU and ARS)
item Collaborative Outcome-Based Land Management through Shared Science
item Collaborative Research in Atmospheric Characterization, Modeling and Sensing
item Continental Divide Cooperative Weed Management Area
item Data Partnership with PhenoCam Network to Process, Serve, and Archive LTAR Digital Camera Imagery and Derived Data Products
item Defining the Relationship of Productivity with Water Availability Across the Semi-Arid Western U.S.
item Developing Biological Control to Mitigate the Harrisia Cactus Mealybug Damage in Puerto Rico
item Developing Practical Genetic Solutions for the Sheep Industry
item Developing Rangeland Management Strategies to Enhance Productive, Sustainable Range Sheep Agroecosystems
item Developing Remote Sensing Tools for Rangeland Vegetation Inventory and Assessment
item Developing UAS Remote Sensing Data Processing Tools for Rangeland Assessment
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of an All-lands Wind Erosion Model
item Development of Ecological Strategies for Invasive Plant Management and Rehabilitation of Western Rangelands
item Development of eOrganic Digital Resources Documenting the Grazing Efficiency of Dairy Breeds
item DNA Sequencing and Molecular Analysis of Forage, Range, and Turf Plants
item Dry Matter Intake, Feed Efficiency of Four Dairy Breeds (Holstein, Jersey, Jersey×Holstein, ProCross Crossbreds) in a Pasture-Based Heifer Dev Prog
item Dual Disturbances: Do Fuel Treatments and Wildfire Protect or Harm Sagebrush Valued Resources?
item Economic Assessment for Rangeland, Pasture, & Turf Landscapes using Improved Plant Materials & Technologies developed by ARS, Forage Range Research
item EDIT Connection
item EDIT Connection
item Educational and Scientific Cooperation between Idaho State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service
item Educational and Scientific Cooperation between the Boise State University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service
item Educational and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Idaho and the USDA
item Enhancing Rangeland Science Diversity in the Northern Great Basin
item Evaluation of the Turfgrass Potential of Warm-Season grasses in the Northern Mojave Desert
item Experimental Evaluation of Drought and Grazing Duration on Grassland Productivity
item Fuel Treatment and Fire Suppression Effects on Valued Resources in Sagebrush Steppe
item Fuel Treatment and Wildfire Effects on Sagebrush Valued Resources
item FY2021, FY2022 Contribution of Legacy Phosphorus to Watershed Outcomes, Phase 2 (Temple, TX)
item Genetics, Ecology, and Biological Control of Invasive Annual Grasses
item Genome Sequencing and Annotation
item Genotyping Wildland Collections
item Grazing Efficiency Evaluation of Four Dairy Breeds
item High-throughput Phenotyping and Genotypic Modeling of Intermediate Wheatgrass Forage and Seed Traits
item Hydrology and Erosion Dynamics Following Compost Applications on Annual Grassland
item Identify Factors Associated with Increase Establishment and Persistence of Grasses, Legumes, and Forbs on Conservation Reserve Program Land
item Impacts of Agricultural Adaptation on Water Resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin: Assessment for the Basin Study
item Improved Establishment Techniques for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Pollinator Mixtures in Semi-Arid regions of the western U.S.
item Improved Plant Genetic Resources and Methodologies for Rangelands, Pastures, and Turf Landscapes in the Semiarid Western U.S.
item Improved Seed and Seeding Technology for Great Basin Rangelands
item Improvement and Maintenance of a Knowledge of a Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS)
item Innovations in Plant Genetics to Develop Intermediate Wheatgrass as a Next-Generation Sustainable Crop
item Integrate Vegetative Bud-based Propagation and Seeds in Restoration of Rangeland Native Plant Communities
item Integrated Management of South American Pests and Weeds
item Integration of a New Groundwater Flow and Salinity Model in SWAT+
item Integration of SWAT+/MODFLOW and Inclusion in the Geospatial Modeling Interface
item Interagency Agreement for Fire Management
item Land Management and Monitoring Apps Development
item LandCART Development and Maintenance
item Landscape Monitoring to Identify Forest Loss
item Livestock Grazing in Rangeland Management Systems
item Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
item Long-term Data Analyses on the Desatoya Mountains Project
item LTAR-NEON Collaboration to Quantify Rangeland Vegetation Production - Phase 2
item LTER: Long-Term Research at the Jornada Basin
item Management and Restoration of Rangeland Ecosystems
item Managing Invasive Weeds and Insect Pests Using Biologically-Based Methods
item Martin Fire Seedling Trials
item National Agroecosystem Model Support for the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
item New Remote Sensing Techniques for Ecosystem Water and Carbon Flux Estimation
item Northern Great Basin Native Seed Production Cooperative
item Pinyon and Juniper Ecophysiology in the Great Basin
item Post-Fire Wind Erosion in the Great Basin
item Precision Application of Conservation in Upper Midwestern Cropping Systems
item Precision Management Technologies for Rangeland Agricultural Systems
item Predicting Wildfire and Wildfire Effects on Great Basin Rangelands
item RaBET Development for Rangelands in the Western U.S.
item Rangeland Assessment and Beef Livestock Production Value Chain Assessment
item Rangeland Ecohydrology
item Rangeland Ecohydrology and Soil Erosion Course
item Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM) Development and Applications
item Rangeland Monitoring and Data Analyses Using the AIM Strategy
item Regional Dust Emission Responses to Ecosystem Change
item Rehabilitation Practices in the Mojave Desert
item Restoration and Conservation of Great Basin Ecosystems
item Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project
item Science and Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Rangeland Systems
item Science and Technologies for the Sustainable Management of Western Rangeland Systems
item Scientific Support and Partnership for BLM Renewable Resource Programs in NM
item Scientific Support and Partnership for BLM Renewable Resources Programs in New Mexico
item Seasonal Forecasting Infrastructure Development
item Seeding Technologies for Post-Fire Restoration
item Skutumpah Terrace Sagebrush Steppe Enhancement Hydrology/Erosion Study
item Socio-economic Assessment of Great Basin Livestock Production Systems
item Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Modeling Support for the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
item Soil Erosion and Ecosystem Recovery After Wildfire Under a Changing Climate
item Soil, Water and Riparian Monitoring and Research in Nevada
item Streamlining the Use of Monitoring Data in Multiple Resource Decision Making
item Support Climate-Smart Decision Making in Utah, USDA Southwest Climate Hub
item Technical Analysis of Grazingland National Resource Field Inventory Data
item Technology Development to Support Land Management, Monitoring and Research
item The 4 Directions Projections
item Tools and Analyses for Data-Supported Management
item Understanding and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Poisonous Plants on Livestock Production Systems
item Understanding Ecological, Hydrological, and Erosion Processes in the Semiarid Southwest to Improve Watershed Management
item Using Quantitative Approaches to Developing Ecological Sites
item Wildland Testing of Bluebunch Wheatgrass Plant Materials Under Variable Environmental Conditions
item WinterTurf: A holistic approach to understanding the mechanisms and mitigating the effects of winter stress on turfgrasses in northern climates