Who Qualifies for Idaho Potato Disease Grants
GrantID: 74114
Grant Funding Amount Low: $150,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: $150,000
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Grant Overview
Who Qualifies for Idaho Potato Disease Research Funding Eligibility for this funding centers on entities conducting applied research on potato diseases within Idaho's Snake River Plain and Magic Valley production zones. Primary applicants must hold active memoranda of understanding with the Idaho Potato Commission or the University of Idaho's Aberdeen Research and Extension Center. Cooperatives composed of at least 15 growers operating a minimum of 2,000 combined acres also meet threshold criteria when they provide disease incidence records from the prior two seasons.
Application requirements include submission of field trial protocols that specify pathogen isolates collected in Idaho counties rather than from external sources. Budgets must allocate at least 35 percent of funds to on-farm demonstration plots located in Power, Minidoka, or Jerome counties. Proposals lacking letters of commitment from commercial storage facilities that handle Russet Burbank varieties receive automatic disqualification.
The realities of Idaho's application process include a 60-day review cycle conducted jointly by the state Department of Agriculture and the university's plant pathology department. Applicants must already possess current pesticide applicator licenses for the specific compounds under study. Projects proposing greenhouse-only experiments are rejected because the funding requires measurable yield data from commercial-scale fields.
Fit assessment for Idaho context favors proposals that integrate late-blight management with existing irrigation scheduling used by Magic Valley growers. Applications demonstrating ability to reduce tuber rot incidence by 12 percent or more during the 120-day storage period align directly with the state's export contracts to Asian markets.
Idaho's Potato Production Infrastructure Constraints Successful projects must document access to the state's network of 17 certified seed potato farms and the temperature-controlled laboratories at the Kimberly Research Center. This infrastructure requirement distinguishes Idaho proposals from those in neighboring states that lack comparable seed certification volume.
The funding further requires applicants to coordinate with the Idaho National Laboratory for any data-modeling components, ensuring compatibility with the state's existing agricultural sensor network that covers 180,000 irrigated acres.
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