R&D Funding for Agricultural Climate Mitigation Hit $424 Million in 2024

Inflation adjusted research funding by the primary federal agencies supporting agricultural R&D.

Values adjusted to 2024 dollar equivalent using NIH Biomedical Research and Development Price Index. Expense amounts used for NIFA programs. 2022-24 values for NIFA formula programs assumed equal to 2021. 2017-2019 values for ARS assumed equal to 2020. 2017-2021 values for ERS & NASS (part of Total) assumed equal to 2022. 2023-24 values for NRCS CIG assumed equal to 2022. Category amounts do not sum to total as projects can fall under multiple categories and non-total estimates for ARS are unavailable.
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