CONTRACTS AND GRANTS RECEIVED (2005 - 2009)
| Period | Amount, $ (% Share ) |
Funding Agency & Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09 - 11 | 120,000(100) | USDA Improving the potency and reliability of fibrolytic enzymes for enhancing tropical forage utilization by livestock | PI |
| 09 - 11 | 72,520(40) | USDA Improving growth development and attainment of puberty of replacement beef cattle heifers with perennial peanut forage | Co-PI 1 of 2 |
| 09 - 11 | 120,000 (25) | USDA Improving small ruminant nutrition, health and carcass value with tropical feed resources | Co-PI 1 of 3 |
| 09 - 10 | 71,752(5) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI. Effect of Feeding Live Yeast on Feeding Behavior, Body Temperature and Lactation Performance of Dairy Cows under Summer Heat Stress | Co-PI 1 of 3 |
| 08 - 09 | 11,887(NA) | US Society of Research Administrators. Facilitated award of a grant to enable a professor from University of Ibadan, Nigeria shadow the UF Director of Sponsored programs for 3 months in order to set up a similar office in Nigeria. | Co-PI 1 of 2 |
| 08 -09 | 14,900(NA) | 29 company sponsors. Florida Ruminant Nutrition Symposium, which discusses current hot topics relevant to the dairy and beef industries in the southeastern U.S. | Co-PI 1 of 3 |
| 08 - 09 | 10,000(NA) | Various seed company sponsors. Evaluation of silage hybrids for yield and quality under Florida growing conditions. | Co-PI 1 of 3 |
| 08 - 09 | 7,500(100) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI. Control of E. coli O157:H7 in corn silage under anaerobic and aerobic conditions with bacterial inoculants. | PI |
| 08 - 09 | 45,470(100) | Oil-Dri Corporation. Reducing transmission of dietary mycotoxins into milk | PI |
| 08 - 09 | 17,800(100) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI. Effect of biotal buchneri 500 inoculant on corn silage quality and stability. | PI |
| 08 - 09 | 23,902(5) | Southeast Milk Check-Off. Selection of the best harvest interval for Tifton-85 bermudagrass quality for use as greenchop in the milking herd and reduction of soil nutrient pollution on dairy farms. | Co-PI 1 of 6 |
| 08 - 09 | 17,850(10) | Southeast Milk Check-Off: Nutritive value and fermentation parameters of warm-season grass haylage. | Co-PI 1 of 6 |
| 07 - 08 | 7,500(100) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI. Control of E. coli O157:H7 in corn silage under anaerobic and aerobic conditions with bacterial inoculants. | PI |
| 07 - 08 | 12,727(5) | Southeast Milk Check Off Fund: Selection of the best harvest interval for Tifton-85 bermudagrass quality | Co-PI 1 of 2 |
| 07 - 08 | 3,500(100) | USDA Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship. Lab. and travel fee for hosting Dr. Carlos Gomez, faculty member from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru. | PI |
| 07 - 08 | 3,001(100) | USDA Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship. Lab. fee for hosting Dr. Simi Odeyinka, Senior Lecturer and Ex. Department Chair, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria | PI |
| 06 -07 | 50,000(100) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI: Effect of bacterial inoculants on corn silage quality and stability and the performance of dairy cattle | PI |
| 06 - 07 | 31,000(100) | Dyadic International Inc. Effect of fibrolytic enzymes on the performance of dairy cattle. | PI |
| 06 - 07 | 98,725(100) | USDA Improving the productivity of livestock with warm-season legumes | PI |
| 06 - 07 | 15,000(100) | Pioneer Hi-bred International. Effects of a prototype silage inoculant on in situ dry matter and neutral detergent fiber digestion of corn silage | PI |
| 06 - 07 | 152,528(0) | Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom: Development and assessment of diets to meet the nutritional needs of nondomesticated species. | Co-PI 1 of 4 |
| 06 - 07 | 25,000(100) | Southeast Milk Check-Off: Effects of disease infestation of corn hybrids on crop survival, silage quality and performance of dairy cows. | PI |
| 06 - 07 | 25,000(100) | Southeast Milk Check-Off: Investigation of strategies for increasing milk production from bermudagrass silage and reducing nitrogen pollution on dairy farms | PI |
| 05 - 06 | 3,142(100) | USDA Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship. Lab. fee for hosting Juan Solomon, faculty member from the National Agricultural Research Institute, Guyana | PI |
| 05 - 06 | 12,000(100) | Lallemand Animal Nutrition, WI; Evaluation of inoculants for improving silage quality | PI |
| 05 - 06 | 9,450(NA) | 27 companies: Sponsorship of the Florida Ruminant Nutrition Symposium which discusses current hot topics relevant to the dairy and beef industries in the south-eastern U. S. | Co-PI 1 of 2 |
| 05 - 06 | 13,075(NA) | 12 seed companies: Evaluation of silage hybrids for yield and quality under Florida growing conditions. | Co-PI 1 of 4 |
| 05 - 06 | 25,000(10) | Southeast Milk Check-Off: Enhancing nutrient intake and digestion and performance of lactating dairy cows fed diets based on Tifton 85 bermudagrass silage | Co-PI 1 of 4 |
| 05 - 06 | 41,000(100) | Southeast Milk Check-Off; Determining when to harvest stay-green corn varieties for silage production | PI |
| TOTAL | 1,061,229 |
| Period | Amount($) | Funding Agency & Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3,000 | UF Research Foundation professorship | PI |
| 2009 | 22,000 | UF Alumni Fellowship | PI |
| 2005 | 6,500 | IFAS Deans Matching Assistantship | |
| 2004 | 15,000 | UF Alumni Fellowship | PI |
| 2003 | 3,000 | CALS Minigrant for improvement of instruction | PI |
| 2002 | 13,000 | Department of Animal Sciences Assistantship | PI |
| 2002 | 13,000 | Department of Animal Sciences Assistantship | PI |
| TOTAL | 75,500 |