A bill to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to establish research and extension grant priorities, and for other purposes.

Land Grant Research Prioritization Act of 2026

This bill includes additional priorities as Department of Agriculture (USDA) high-priority research and extension areas.

Under the bill, USDA may award grants for developing and evaluating (1) technologies to mechanize agricultural processes (and may emphasize processes for harvesting specialty crops), and (2) agricultural uses of artificial intelligence (and may emphasize uses for improving specialty crop production).

Further, USDA may award grants to support research projects at land-grant colleges and universities to develop and apply

• methods to manage and eradicate invasive species of plants and animals, including through methods of biocontrol; and
• aquaculture methods, including through the propagation and rearing of economically and ecologically valuable aquatic and marine species.