Nebraska Department of Agriculture receives federal grant for specialty crops
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) announced 13 projects that are being funded by a federal grant totaling over $850,000.
The grant comes from the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program designed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It aims to enhance competitiveness of specialty crops.
The 13 projects the NDA announced will benefit from the grant are as follows:
- Spring and Winter Pea Productivity and Profitability Under Dryland and Western Nebraska
- Adding A “Preemptive Strike” to the Battle Against Japanese Beetles
- Integrated Management of Herbicide-Resistant Palmer Amaranth and Volunteer Corn in Popcorn: Research & Extension
- Reliable or Risky? Screening Biostimulants for Specialty Crop Transplant Production
- Framework for Farm Sustainability
- Optimizing NPK to Improve Photosynthesis, Yield, and Profitability of Dry Pea
- Kochia Burndown in Confection Sunflower
- High-Yielding Food-Grade Winter Pea Varieties for Dryland Production System in Nebraska
- Cowpea Varieties for Dryland Production System in Western Nebraska
- Evaluation of Sulfur Supplementation on Terminal Drought Tolerance in Dry Pea
- Evaluation of Biopesticides for Seed-Feeding Pests Management in Confection Sunflower
- Developing Rust Resistant Sweet Corn Lines
- Trade Show for Nebraska Specialty Crop Associations
The funding NDA received was $851946.25.
