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 41 - 50 of 1760 projects
California Department of Food and Agriculture
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CA
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2021
This project will assist targeted farmers in implementing efficient nitrogen (N) and irrigation management practices, but not sufficiently adopted by farmers. These practices will mitigate groundwater nitrate contamination, support compliance with water quality regulations, and maintain crop yields in California's Central Valley. This project will target farmers at risk of non-compliance using farmer-reported nitrogen (N) use data.
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
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KS, OK
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2021
The project addresses invasive shrub encroachment on grasslands by understanding brush management beliefs and behavior. Project approach will identify barriers to adoption through a user-centered design approach, develop and test communication messages, and conduct focused outreach to increase proactive brush management behaviors to conserve grassland ecosystems.
National Wildlife Federation
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MN
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2021
This project will develop and test a multi-faceted media campaign to build supportive social norms for soil health practices.
Heartland Corporate Holdings, LLC
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IL, IN, KS, MT, NE, NC, SC, TN, VA
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2021
To demonstrate industrial Hemp cultivation with regenerative practices is an economically viable and scalable climate-smart rotational crop that improves soil health and sequesters carbon.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2021
Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) proposes to employ a novel, innovative approach to address the lack of fence and economic incentives that support grazing. Expanding on our success with 10 established PFI-administered cost-share programs, we will pilot a new cost-share program to pay for grazing infrastructure, specifically mobile, temporary fence and watering systems, with the objective to increase adoption of regenerative grazing in Iowa.
Sustainable Chesapeake
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MD
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2021
The purpose of the project is for Sustainable Chesapeake to build on research and Extension efforts to demonstrate, on working farms at the field scale, that there is not a one-size-fits-all cover crop and that cover cropping should involve significant planning with regards to site-specific factors and cover crop purpose. The project will involve a close working relationship with the farmer and agricultural service provider to plan, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of cover crops.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2021
This project will evaluate and quantify the ability of soil health management systems to improve economic and environmental performance of farms across Iowa. We will help farmers assess N fertilizer rates to corn in fields they have committed to soil health management systems. Ultimately, we hope farmers who have made a long-term investment to soil health will gain confidence to practice fertilizer reductions while maintaining crop yields.
Northern Tilth
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CT
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2021
This project will involve working with six farms in Connecticut that have existing on-farm composting operations in order to minimize environmental impacts of the compost operations and maximize the quality of the finished compost. All of the farms included in this project have worked with the CT NRCS in the past, some of them have received cost-share funding from the NRCS for compost-related practices. The goal of the project is to develop a Compost Optimization Practice that would provide technical support to NRCS client-farms in order to improve the nutrient management and water quality benefits associated with composting manure and other organic matter-based by-products.
Oklahoma State University
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CO, OK
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2021
The goal of this project is to demonstrate the benefits of virtual fencing to ranchers. Benefits will address livestock grazing management, wildlife habitat, and water quality from grazing lands. Additionally, guidelines will be produced for use by NRCS personnel to help ranchers adopt and successfully implement virtual fencing.
Maumee Watershed Alliance, Inc.
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IN, MI, OH
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2021
The project will demonstrate phosphorus recovery technologies (USDA QuickWash, Kendensha Multi-disc Roller Separator) at three different sites with the aim of illustrating 80% total phosphorus removal over extended demonstration periods. The WMA will also discern the market value of two resultant co-products - dewatered manure solids and Amorphous Calcium Phosphate (ACP) - to serve as a cost recovery mechanism and facilitate large scale adoption.