Who funds livestock research?

We count 206 funded livestock projects, active between 2020 and 2034, from 7 funders. The most came from USDA (103 projects), Gates Foundation (25 projects) and EU · Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (21 projects). The median award is $633K, across the 201 of 206 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

206

Funders

7

Median award

$633K

Open calls now

3

Top funders of livestock research

Projects whose title or summary mentions livestock. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open livestock funding calls

3 open calls mention livestock today.

• Cattle Run Proposers Day Announcement
  DARPANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• F26AS00088 Endangered Species Conservation – Wolf Livestock Loss Compensation and Prevention
  Fish and Wildlife Service$10,000 – $675,000Deadline: January 15, 2027 ·
• Microbiome for terrestrial livestock sustainability and health within a One Health approach
  European Commission · Horizon Europe€5,000,000 – €6,000,000Deadline: September 23, 2027 ·

Funded livestock projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• How do African trypanosomes evade the complement system?
  Wellcome · £2,638,121 · ends 2034
• Campylobacter Control Campaign
  Wellcome · £5,199,989 · ends 2033
• Drivers and Barriers: Understanding AMR Gene Transfer in MRSA Biofilms and Colonisation
  Wellcome · £802,977 · ends 2031
• Rural agricultural communities across the texas panhandle and neighboring states face a widening skills gap
  USDA · $715,000 · ends 2031
• CAREER: A framework for assessing agrivoltaic technical scalability in the US
  NSF · ENG · $599,892 · ends 2031
• The University of Edinburgh — Agricultural Development
  Gates Foundation · $14,999,977 · ends 2030
• The Pirbright Institute — Agricultural Development
  Gates Foundation · $3,865,802 · ends 2030
• The western agency frtep project, based in tuba city on the navajo nation, was established in 2008
  USDA · $102,000 · ends 2030
• The success of genomic selection in beef cattle depends more than ever on the availability of accurate, large-scale phenotypic data
  USDA · $650,000 · ends 2030
• Indian Council of Agricultural Research — Agricultural Development
  Gates Foundation · $1,641,916 · ends 2030

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “livestock or cattle”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.