Annual Federal Agricultural R&D Spending

Annual value of research and development (R&D) awards by congressional district, averaged over 2017-2021. R&D programs include a) USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) capacity programs that provide long-term funding to universities, b) NIFA's Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), which is USDA's flagship competitive grant program, c) other NIFA programs, d) the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), which builds public-private research partnerships, and e) Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE), which funds farmer-driven innovation.