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 81 - 90 of 1760 projects
Xerces Society Inc.
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CA, ME, MT, OR, WA
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2021
Understanding how pollinator conservation and climate-smart agriculture overlap has the potential to vastly accelerate both goals at the farm level. Working with at least 12 producers in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Maine, representing a variety of cropping systems and agricultural operation sizes, Xerces Society will demonstrate, evaluate, and quantify conservation practices designed to maximize these dual goals. The project will trial a combination of permanent woody biomass plantings along with temporary and permanent biomass plantings. These practices will be designed to meet both criteria for pollinator value and climate-resilience benefits.
Irrigation for the Future
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OR
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2021
Irrigation for the Future will demonstrate an advanced decision support system (DSS) designed to calculate the productivity of water and optimize the economics of irrigation management field by field. The project will integrate the DSS with cooperating farms’ practices and workflows as a tool for strategic water use planning and economically optimal irrigation management. The project team will work with cooperating farms and the DSS to calibrate site-specific water production functions to develop and manage optimal full-season irrigation strategies with limited water and support participation in a local water market, manage pumping schedules to minimize energy costs, and evaluate alternative cropping patterns and water use strategies to align with future water supplies.
North Carolina State University
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NC
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2021
The project will demonstrate and evaluate the performance and economic feasibility of on-farm water capture and use for supplemental irrigation as a promising practice for: i) increasing crop production resilience to frequent and long dry periods during the crop growing season; ii) protecting water quality by reducing the amount of agricultural runoff enriched with nutrients, sediment, and other agrochemicals that reaches downstream surface water bodies; and iii) potentially mitigating flooding impacts of extreme storm events that annually hit the coastal communities in southeastern U.S. by temporarily storing runoff in the agricultural landscape.
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.
The Chickasaw Nation
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OK
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2021
The project will apply an innovative approach using enhanced satellite imagery analysis for optimizing efforts to identify and clear invasive red cedar trees in the CN treaty territory. This proposal involves identifying land parcels that are most suitable for cedar removal through prescribed fire and the transfer of the associated methods for potential integration into the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP).
NC Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation, Inc.
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NC
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2021
New technology developing low-cost passive solar waste drying systems to assist farmers with addressing issues with handling bulky, wet manures as well as to facilitate transfers of manure from areas which have heavy nutrient buildup. The project will also review the economics of the system to make a business case for the product.
Juniper Environmental, LLC
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KS, NE
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2021
This study aims to evaluate the performance of Low Tech Process Based (LTPB)complexes in Great Plains prairie streams to promote them as viable practices in the region to improve climate resiliency by addressing the effects of extreme climate events related to water quality, depth to water table, riparian & pasture vegetation improvements, and wildlife habitat over the course of three growing seasons.
Croatan Institute
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CO, ME, MA, MO
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2021
This project provides a supply chain solution to conservation by tying the food products to the production attributes (price discovery). Producers are compensated for the risk/inputs for those attributes and the markets are established by consumers in the recognition and payment of defined attributes. The end product will use the app Market Square to facilitate a pilot of producer to consumer transactions to establish market values.
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.
Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN)
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IL, IA, KS, MN, NE, ND, SD, WI
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2021
Identify and address the conservation practice implementation barriers faced by Women Farmland Owners (WFOs); Expand the education and implementation of regenerative agriculture through WFOs.