Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness: $44,249

• Developing an AI-driven Price Risk Management Tool for Soybean and Corn Producers in Louisiana, Raghav Goyal, Hector Zapata and Michael Deliberto
• Economic Analysis of Farm Programs and Commodity Costs and Returns for Soybean and Grain Production in Louisiana, Michael Deliberto

Biological and Agricultural Engineering: $33,916

• Improving Automatic Soybean Quality Analysis, Kevin Hoffseth

Communications: $7,500

• 2026 Soybean and Grain Research and Promotion Annual Report and Web Portal, Frankie Gould

Dean Lee Research Station: $306,612

• Developing Soybean Disease Management Programs in Central and South Louisiana, Boyd Padgett
• Developing Diseases Management Strategies for Corn, Grain Sorghum, Small Grains and Soybean in Central and South Louisiana, Boyd Padgett
• Weed Control Strategies in Louisiana Feed Grains, Stephen Ippolito
• Evaluation of Weed Management Practices in Louisiana Soybean, Stephen Ippolito
• Enhancing Approaches to Insect Control in Field Corn in Central Louisiana, James Villegas
• Refining Pest Management Strategies for Economically Important Insects in Louisiana Soybean, James Villegas
• Management Strategies for Sugarcane Aphids and Headworm Complex in Grain Sorghum, James Villegas
• Soybean On-Farm Demonstration Program, David Moseley
• Louisiana Soybean Production Agronomic Best Management Practices: Decreased Risk and Increased Profits, David Moseley

Entomology: $112,916

• Detecting Insect-Damaged Soybeans with Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Ivan Grijalva
• New Tools and Tactics for Soybean IPM, Jeff Davis

Macon Ridge Research Station: $392,068

• Insecticide Application Strategies for Stink Bugs in Soybeans, Dawson Kerns
• Monitoring and Management of Stink Bugs on Non-Crop Hosts and Soybean, Dawson Kerns
• Cost-Effective Soybean Insect Pest Management Strategies for Northeast Louisiana, Dawson Kerns
• Evaluation of NDVI Use for Early Detection of Disease and Prescriptive Management of Fields Using Spray Drones, Shelly Kerns
• Corn On-Farm Demonstration Program, Shelly Kerns
• Chicken Litter as a Tool to Increase Yield and Soil Fertility in Louisiana Corn Fields, Leandro Vieira
• Integrated Soybean Disease Management, Trey Price

Northeast Research Station: $60,000

• Soybean Weed Management in Northeast Louisiana, Donnie Miller

Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology: $250,416

• The Potential of Adjuvants and Nanoparticles in Enhancing the Effectiveness of dsRNA in Managing Soybean Fungal Diseases, Zhi-Yuan Chen
• Identifying Weather Predictors Associated with Airborne Spores and Disease Outbreak in Cercospora Leaf Blight of Soybean, Sara Thomas-Sharma
• Screening of Soybean Core Block Varieties for Resistance to Aerial Blight, Sara Thomas-Sharma
• Implement Plant-Derived Natural Molecules to Manage Important Fungal Diseases in Soybeans, Chien-Yu Huang
• Integrating Developments in Taproot Decline Pathology to Minimize Yield Loss, Vinson Doyle
• Characterizing the Environmental Factors and Host Genetics that Influence CLB Disease Severity to Improve Epidemiological Modeling and Cultivar Selection, Vinson Doyle
• Characterization and Validation of Reniform Nematode Resistance in Soybean, Tristan Watson
• Nematode Associated Yield Loss and Damage Thresholds in Soybean and Grain Crops, Tristan Watson
• Root-Knot Nematode Management in Soybean, Tristan Watson

School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences: $112,000

• Small Grain Breeding, Variety Development and Testing, Noah DeWitt
• Integrated Weed Management Solutions in the Absence of Dicamba for Mitigating Herbicide Resistance in Louisiana Soybean and Grain Crops, Prashant Jha

Total Funding for 2026: $1,319,677