Project Search
Since its inception in 2004, CIG has funded hundreds of projects, boosting natural resource conservation while helping producers improve the health of their operations for the future. Use this tool to search for CIG projects based on any of the criteria listed below.
CIG projects from 2004-2009 may be missing information in the following categories: Resource Concern (specific), Conservation Practice, Production/Use.
Showing 751 - 760 of 1721 projects
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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MA
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2012
The goal of the project is to increase the use of automated irrigation cycling for frost protection by Massachusetts cranberry growers. Adoption of the practice has the potential to decrease water use, fuel consumption, and associated greenhouse gas emissions.
University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture
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VT
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2012
The goal of this project is to demonstrate and to educate livestock farmers and service providers regarding techniques used by grass-based farming innovators to improve soil and water quality, renew marginally productive lands, increase forage production, support wildlife, and encourage transition to environmentally beneficial methods of livestock production.
University of Vermont Entomology
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VT
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2012
A bubble based system to improve the energy efficiency in greenhouses is an advanced and innovative technology. This project will continue to improve the current bubble system design, and put these improvements into place. It will therby enhance the potential of its future implementation by growers on a broader scale.
Holly Miller
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ME
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2012
Demostrate and quantify the impacts of reducing on-farm electric use by replacing old, highly inefficient cooling anf freezing equipment with new, energy-efficient equipment.
Kansas State University
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KS
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2012
This project seeks to change behavior and growing practices related to medium- and large-scale production of vegetables (pumpkin, snap bean, and sweet corn) in the Great Plains. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the use of no-till systems for pumpkin, sweet corn, and snap bean in the Great Plains, and provide this knowledge to growers. The specific objectives of this project are:
• To demonstrate the effectiveness of no-till production systems for pumpkin, sweet corn, and snap bean through a series of demonstration sites at University and NRCS locations.
• To provide vegetable growers with “hands-on” experience growing no-till crops by initiating a mini-grant incentive program for vegetable growers to conduct demonstration trials in Kansas and Missouri.
• To assess the impact of different cover crop species and no-till systems on soil health, yield and profitability of pumpkin, sweet corn, and snap bean.
• To engage growers and others in university/extension with current knowledge of minimum tillage systems and disseminate the results of this project through established and novel extension networks and outlets.
• To demonstrate the effectiveness of no-till production systems for pumpkin, sweet corn, and snap bean through a series of demonstration sites at University and NRCS locations.
• To provide vegetable growers with “hands-on” experience growing no-till crops by initiating a mini-grant incentive program for vegetable growers to conduct demonstration trials in Kansas and Missouri.
• To assess the impact of different cover crop species and no-till systems on soil health, yield and profitability of pumpkin, sweet corn, and snap bean.
• To engage growers and others in university/extension with current knowledge of minimum tillage systems and disseminate the results of this project through established and novel extension networks and outlets.
Maryland Department of Agriculture
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MD
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2012
This project aims to provide and promote additional opportunities for pont and non-point sources to utilize Marylands water quality trading market as a cost-effective, innovative option for meeting and maintaining water quality in the Chesapeake Bay an ensuring consistency with the Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), Maryland Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) strategy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)s requirements for a comprehensive growth offset program for future development.
Yamhill Soil and Water Conservation District
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OR
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2012
Provide cost share using a programmatic approach to vineyards greater than 20 acres in size to provide incentive for retrofit their air blast sprayers to a more efficient tunnel sprayer. Provides education to landowners on percussion agriculture through work shops and tours.
Illinois River Watershed Partnership
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AR
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2012
This project proposes to construct a phosphorus removal structure on a poultry farm located in the Illinois River watershed, which will be strategically placed to intercept runoff occurring immediately around a poultry production house Awardee will also monitor the effectiveness of the structure by sampling inflow and treated water through the use of automatic samplers and flow meters, tracking the reduction of phosphorous load. The goal is to remove 50 percent of the phosphorous load. More specifically, this project aims to: • Construct a phosphorus removal structure on a poultry farm located in the Illinois River watershed (impaired watershed as indicated by the EPA 303(d) list), which will be strategically placed to intercept runoff occurring immediately around a poultry production house.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the structure by sampling inflow and treated water through the use of automatic samplers and flow meters, thereby allowing one to determine the phosphorus load reduction. Our goal is to remove 50% of the P load.
• After the PSM has been saturated with P in the structure, remove the spent material and test its ability to serve as P fertilizer or mulch in low P soils.
• Present the structure to agricultural producers, policy makers, and stakeholders (i.e. water quality advocate groups) in the area via field tours and web. Our goal is to reach 1000 people through site tours and presentations. Another goal is for this new BMP to be added to the NRCS EQIP program.
• Estimate the cost of implementation of this new BMP in poultry dense watersheds of Eastern Oklahoma and the potential phosphorus load reductions.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the structure by sampling inflow and treated water through the use of automatic samplers and flow meters, thereby allowing one to determine the phosphorus load reduction. Our goal is to remove 50% of the P load.
• After the PSM has been saturated with P in the structure, remove the spent material and test its ability to serve as P fertilizer or mulch in low P soils.
• Present the structure to agricultural producers, policy makers, and stakeholders (i.e. water quality advocate groups) in the area via field tours and web. Our goal is to reach 1000 people through site tours and presentations. Another goal is for this new BMP to be added to the NRCS EQIP program.
• Estimate the cost of implementation of this new BMP in poultry dense watersheds of Eastern Oklahoma and the potential phosphorus load reductions.
Kosciusko County Soil and Water Conservation District
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IN
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2012
Kosciusko County Soil and Water Conservation District propose to implement Cover Crops across 50% of a sub-watershed in a tile-drained agricultural landscape in order to quantify and seek additional funding to implement another 25% of the watershed as well 1) the effect of cover crop planting on tile drain nutrient and sediment export, and how that is reflected in 2) stream nutrient and sediment export; 3) whether there is improved efficacy of an in-stream management practice (Two-Stage Ditch) when combined with a landscape management practice; and finally 4) to provide a regional demonstration area for farmers that highlights the benefits of combining multiple BMPs at the watershed scale.
Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (IASWCD)
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IN
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2012
The overall goal of this project is to integrate long-term continuous no-till/strip-till, Cover Crops, precision technology, nutrient management and pest management practices into productive, profitable and sustainable systems. The innovative approach to achieving this goal is through the regionally located training/demonstration site hubs, utilizing the inter-professional expertise of farmer-peer mentors, crop advisors, and Indiana Conservation Partnership staff. This innovative approach has the ability to be replicated in the Midwest while allowing for flexibility based on the needs and resources in other states and/or regions. The secondary goal is to measure and quantify the impacts of these conservation systems on soil health at regionally located agricultural production sites.