Tag: FFAR

Solving Ag’s Supply Chain Challenges: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to FFAR

Solving Ag’s Supply Chain Challenges: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to FFAR

March 6, 2022 |

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research builds unique partnerships to support innovative science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. If you missed ABLC Connect last week, check out this slide guide on SARA – sustainable, affordable, reliable, available supply-chains and raw materials supplies through public-private partnerships for agricultural research and creating bioeconomy ecosystems that […]

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gets $5 million grant to model crops

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gets $5 million grant to model crops

March 20, 2019 |

In Illinois, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Crops in silico (Cis) project has received a $5 million grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to continue building a computational platform that integrates multiple models to study a whole plant virtually. Developing crops using traditional methods is research, labor and cost intensive. However, Cisallows researchers […]

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