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The FFAR Fellows Program Aicha Waziri, Washington State University. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) created the FFAR Fellows Program to
Adoption Takes More Than Technology - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Adoption Takes More Than Technology - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Agriculture has never lacked innovation. New crop varieties, digital tools, improved production practices and advanced monitoring technologies are constantly emerging from research institutions and laboratories. These innovations hold tremendous potential to improve productivity, sustainability and resilience across food systems. Yet many promising technologies never reach widespread adoption on farms. The challenge is rarely the innovation…
Going Native - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Going Native - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Wheat feeds billions of people every day. What if we could harness wheat to not just fill stomachs, but also be a catalyst to improve human health? This question led me to an academic path at the intersection of plant breeding, quantitative genetics, and human health. As a PhD student and FFAR Fellow at Washington…
Balancing the Books - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Balancing the Books - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Imagine two wheat fields: one rooted in dark brown, rich soils teeming with life and another in gray, compacted ground depleted by decades of intensive tillage and fertilizer use. Both may produce grain, but the health of the soil beneath them tells very different stories about the past – and the future – of our…
Reminders From a Grateful FFAR Fellow - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Reminders From a Grateful FFAR Fellow - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Making Feed Safer for Livestock - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Making Feed Safer for Livestock - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Inside the leaves, stems, fruits, flowers and roots of most land plants are communities of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms that form plants’ microbiomes. Just like your gut microbiome, the collection of microbes that live in your intestines, plants have microbial communities that live in and around their tissues. These microbes communicate with the plant…
It's Not Just A Trend - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
It's Not Just A Trend - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
My research can be a hot-button issue. But even as public opinion changes, science keeps a consistent story. I am a Ph.D. student at UC Davis and a FFAR fellow. I study gluten and celiac disease (CeD). When I tell people this, I get a mixed bag of reactions. Many people are grateful for my…
Meet the 2025 Fellows!
Meet the 2025 Fellows!
Meet the Fellows | 2025-2028 Alexis Alsdorf North Carolina State University, Entomology and Plant Pathology Sponsor: Cotton Incorporated Jackson Alsdorf North Carolina State University, Crop Science Sponsor: Bayer Diana Amaya Discua Louisiana State University, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Sponsor: Rockey FFAR Fellows Scholarship Charles Bakin Johns
FFAR Fellows Lightning Talks 2025
FFAR Fellows Lightning Talks 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 FFAR Fellows Lightning Talk Competition! The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows, the FFAR Fellows, are 203 PhD students from 40+ universities across the U.S. and Canada studying agronomy, food science, genomics, biosystems engineering, and a dozen other fields in food and agriculture. What brings these
Fighting Wheat Disease with Farmers: - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Fighting Wheat Disease with Farmers: - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Designing Sentinel Plants to Monitor the Invisible - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Designing Sentinel Plants to Monitor the Invisible - Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Beneath every crop lies a dynamic and invisible ecosystem that plays a vital role in agriculture: the rhizosphere. Microbial communities in this zone drive nutrient cycling, influence greenhouse gas emissions and impact plant productivity. Yet, despite their central role in ecosystem health, we lack the tools to monitor their activity in real time and at…
Engineered 'Brown Thumb'
Engineered 'Brown Thumb'
Vineyard Armor: Developing solutions to protect wine grapes from wildfire smoke
Vineyard Armor: Developing solutions to protect wine grapes from wildfire smoke
The devastating impact of wildfires has grown to be a worldwide concern. In recent years, the most notable destructive wildfires were the 2023 Canadian wildfires and the 2020 Australian bushfires. The 2023 wildfire burned around 4% of Canada’s forest land, marking the largest forest loss in the nation’s recorded history. Meanwhile, the 2020 bushfires became…
The Place of Team Science
The Place of Team Science
The Perennial Groundcover (PGC) system is a potential shift away from conventional land management and crop production in the U.S. Unlike traditional cover crops that are terminated and replanted annually, the PGC system provides year-round living cover that grows simultaneously with row crops. PGC has all the benefits of traditional cover crops, including erosion control,…
Tackling Research Challenges with Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Tackling Research Challenges with Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Cucurbit crops include beloved fruits and vegetables such as cucumber, squash, watermelon, melon and pumpkins. These crops are exposed every year to the disease cucurbit downy mildew which reduces yield and quality of the fruit (Figure 1 below). Farmers currently manage downy mildew with weekly fungicide applications, which commonly start a few weeks after the…
Cultivating Tomorrow's Wheat Scientists | Mei Ling Wong
Cultivating Tomorrow's Wheat Scientists | Mei Ling Wong
FFAR Fellows Lightning Talks 2024
FFAR Fellows Lightning Talks 2024
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FFAR Fellows | Blogs
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