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Climate resilient and market adapted Norwegian winter wheat production

Interest in winter wheat is growing in Norway. Climate change is expected to expand the wheat producing regions, yet warmer, wetter conditions in autumn and winter will increase soil erosion and nutrient loss risks. The main objective of ProHøst is to develop climate robust management strategies ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

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SpermAct: A novel boar sperm cell activator for improved pork production.

Spermatech AS has identified and characterized substances, also called activators, that increase the swimming ability of sperm isolated from pigs. Previously, in collaboration with Norsvin, Spermatech AS has shown that the sperm activators, positively affect the number of offspring after artifici...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

Improving conditions for agricultural management of drained peatlands while reducing GHG emissions (PEATIMPROVE)

PEATIMPROVE aims to improve the conditions for agricultural management of drained peatlands while reducing GHG emissions. PEATIMPROVE will study different drainage options including peat inversion in particular as a promising management option for protecting peat from degradation while allowing f...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

FarmMERGE: The relationship between farmer health and work environment, and the health, welfare and productivity of their animals

Agriculture has undergone major changes in recent decades, for example increased demands for efficiency and mechanization. Farming is also physically demanding, and the working environment can be hazardous, e.g., due to the use of pesticides and working with large animals. The farmer works closel...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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Phenotyping for healthier and more productive wheat crops

Food production must increase to keep up with population growth and become more sustainable to lessen the environmental footprint. There is a need for more productive wheat cultivars and site-specific crop management. The PhenoCrop project works on tailoring crop phenotyping technologies to Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Animal health and pasture carbon dynamics in sustainability assessment of ruminant production systems

Ruminants are important for food security in Norway. Natural conditions make more than 60 pct of the arable land used for grass production, and large outfield areas are used for grazing. The agric. sector has a contract with the government to reduce GHG-emissions per unit of food product. SUSCOW ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Assessment of Pollination Provisioning in agricultural Landscapes and the roles of Environment and Climate on Resilience

In 2021, 2022, and 2023, the APPLECORe project conducted a series of field campaigns across a series of apple and pear orchards in the Lofthus region of Western Norway and the Svelvik region of Eastern Norway. Each spring (starting in early May and ending in early June with exact dates depending...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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Genetic improvement of feed efficiency of Norwegian Red cows

The overall aim is to develop tools for selection of improved feed efficiency in Norwegian Red dairy cows. This will result in a more efficient production of milk and beef, better utilization of resources and reduced environmental impact, while maintaining a sustainable dairy production. Feed eff...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

FFLJA-FFLJA

Assessment of cover cropping as climate action in cereal production in Norway

Cover crops are grown to keep the soil covered with plants after harvest of the main crop. In Norway, cover crops were introduced in the 1990’s to prevent loss of nitrogen and phosphorous from fields to waterways. Initially, grasses were predominantly used as cover crops. The cover crops contribu...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Sensorer for automatisk presisjonsplukking av jordbær

In Målbær, efforts have been made to develop accurate and robust sensors for measuring properties of strawberries in the field. We have explored new measurement techniques to identify ripeness, sugar content, disease outbreaks, and damage to strawberries. This can be used to optimize robotic stra...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

SOLUTIONS: New solutions for potato canopy desiccation, control of weeds and runners in field strawberries & weed control in apple orchards

Desiccation of potato haulm (aboveground part of potato plants): 21 trials carried out with pelargonic acid, acetic acid and chemical agents in various potato cultivars at NIBIO and growers’ fields (Hamar, Skarnes). 1-3 treatments, different doses and addition of paraffin oil and adjuvants includ...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Grovpellets – Bedre produksjonsresultater og lavere energiforbruk ved forbedringer i prosesseringsmetoden for fjørfefôr

In the nature, birds search and peck for seeds that often is in intact form. The food particles can be stored in the crop before grinding in the gizzard. The gizzard muscle is stimulated by coarse particles, and the activity in this part of the gut is related to the structure and consitency of th...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Rogaland

FFLJA-FFLJA

Genomic-based breeding technology for the improvement of pre-harvest sprouting resistance in spring wheat under Norwegian climate

Increasing wheat production for food is an important element to achieve the Norwegian government goal to increase the national food production. All wheat varieties in the Norwegian market today have the genetic potential needed for good baking quality, but this quality is often destroyed by pre-h...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Innlandet

FFLJA-FFLJA

ANTIGRO - New strategies for sprout control in long time storage of processing potatoes

To achieve optimal fry color and low acrylamide levels, processing potatoes must be stored at a slightly higher storage temperature than is otherwise optimal to avoid sprouting. It is therefore necessary to introduce measures to prevent sprouting during long-term storage. In this project, new, ro...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

Developing tools to optimize the control of coccidiosis without use of antimicrobials

Coccidia in chickens and turkeys, in addition to being an important disease in itself, is one of the main predisposing factors for necrotic enteritis (NE), a syndrome responsible for over 90% of the antibiotics used in Norwegian poultry production. The main goal of the TEiCON project is to facili...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Improving detection and diagnosis of maedi-visna virus infection in sheep in Norway

The main goal of the project has been to contribute to the eradication of the sheep disease maedi/visna (hereafter referred to as maedi) in Norway by improving diagnostics and surveillance of the disease. As a direct result of the project, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute has made changes to th...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Norwegian Airways Improved sustainability and welfare in the cattle industry by reduction of respiratory disease and use of antimicrobials

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a major problem worldwide. BRD is usually caused by virus and/or bacteria and is the main cause for use of antibiotics in calves. It is not fully understood how contagious the bacterial infections are and what impact the bacterial genes have on disease outcome....

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

SUCCEED - Sustainable systems with cow-calf-contact for higher welfare in dairy production

Traditionally, the dairy cow and calf are separated at birth. This practice is debated. Cow-calf contact (CCC) satisfies the species-specific cow-calf needs, such as suckling&nursing, allogrooming and social learning. Before the project started, there was a need for more knowledge about how CCC a...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Alkaline Grain Technology: increased Norwegian ingredients in cattle diets and effects on milk production, animal health and GHG emission

Population growth and climate change highlight the need to promote sustainable production and food security in agricultural policies. Norway has a Nordic climate with less than 3% of the total land area cultivated. This contributes to high levels of imported protein ingredients (~90%) in feeds fo...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Strawberry Harvester for Polytunnels and Open Fields

The objective of the SHAPE project has been to develop a fully autonomous harvester for strawberry production in polytunnels and open fields. Labour shortage being one of the major concerns for strawberry growers around the globe, there is a need for new technology to help growers automate thi...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Sustainable postharvest handling of apple

A 40% increase in the production of Norwegian apples was anticipated from 2018 to 2023; this volume was already reached in 2021. Handling of such a volume requires optimal fruit quality and careful treatment at harvest, improved environmental conditions for short- and long-term cold storage, and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

WelCow: Improving animal welfare in dairy herds by optimising welfare assessment methods for continuous use by farmers

There is a political and societal agenda towards establishing animal welfare assessment protocols in agricultural production systems. These can be as a basis for welfare improvement, consumer information and product labelling. In Norway, animal welfare (AW) is considered to be good and is safegua...

Awarded: NOK 0.81 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Multifunctional high-value fungal biomass from the Norwegian agriculture supply chain by-products

Norge produserer årlig omtrent 600 000 tonn biprodukter fra jordbruk og matvareforsyningskjeden. For øyeblikket blir en stor del av disse biproduktene enten brukt til lavverdige formål, forbrenning eller kastet som avfall. Samtidig er det et økende samfunns- og industribehov for å utvikle bærekra...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Environmentally friendly fungal disease management in protected crop production using plant genetic resources and sensor technology (END-IT)

Crop losses and value degradation caused by plant diseases are major constraints to food security globally. Fungicides are important tools in management of plant diseases caused by fungal and oomycete pathogens. Reliance on fungicides is not sustainable since the fungal pathogens that cause powde...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Digifood - Transforming the Nordic REKO-rings into a sustainable Digital Local Food System

New digital consumer trends challenge traditional food value chains designed for volume production and supply. In response to increasing consumer power, new digital business models are emerging, including food networks on digital platforms and the entry of global platform players like Amazon and ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestfold

FFL-JA-Forskningsmidlene for jordbruk og matindustri

Sustainable management of rust diseases in wheat

Rust diseases pose a serious threat to wheat production in Norway. New races of yellow rust have recently caused serious damage, and several wheat varieties on the Norwegian market are susceptible. The aim of this project has been to take a holistic approach to disease management by considering e...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

KORNMO - produksjonsoptimalisering, kvalitetsstyring og bærekraft gjennom verdikjeden for korn

Grain is a cornerstone of Norwegian agriculture, and the Norsk Landbruksrådgiving SA (NLR) / The Norwegian Agricultural Advisory Service holds a unique position as the independent advisor to grain producers on issues related to agronomy, economics, health and safety, and landscape management. NLR...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Can boar production be beneficial for meat industry, breeding, farmers, animals, the planet and people?

Livestock production has increased focus on animal welfare, land use and greenhouse gas emissions, and the need for surgical castration of male pigs is challenging. The main reason behind castration is to prevent boars taint and taste, caused by skatole and androstenone, which give pork reduced s...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

FFLJA-FFLJA

Forage preservation for premium protein quality (EngProt)

Protein amounts 14-15% of dry matter in grass and grass protein constitutes the major part of ingested crude protein (CP) even in diets to high yielding cows. Grass is locally produced, and improved utilisation of grass protein reduces the need for imported protein supplement. In addition will hi...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Rett pollinering for auka fruktsetjing , større avling og betre fruktkvalitet i eple

The overall goal of the project is to improve the management techniques for obtain large annual yields of high quality apples and the economic results for Norwegian apple grower. The total amount of Norwegian produced apples is increasing. It has varied from 13322 tons in 2014 to 20104 tons in 2...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Akershus

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