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 1631 - 1640 of 1802 projects
Operation Spring Plant
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NC
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2006
Implement projects designed to empower small farmers, within the Granville, Vance, Warren, Duplin, Sampson, Johnson, and Orange County RC&D areas, with the confidence and expertise to adopt new and innovative farming technology on their family farms.
Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2006
Demonstrated the establishment of varios cover crops, such as red clover and hairy vetch, for soil quality purposes and the nitrogen value they have in order to motivate farmers to use this conservation practice for its value instead of a conservation program incentive.
Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2006
Demonstrate how more ecologically based IPM (EBIPM) using pheromone mating disruption, biopesticides, and reduced-risk (RR) insecticides conserves beneficial arthropods and enhances biological control and how to measure these as an IPM control option for grower transition payments.
Pheasants Forever Inc.
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NE
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2006
This project provides a cost share payment for deferred grazing payments. This payment would allow landowners a viable option to build grassland fuel loads for a prescribed burn to allow more succesful treatment in removing invasive species such as eastern red cedar and cool season grasses resulting in a warm season grass and forb pasture.
Quivira Coalition
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NM
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2006
The project Supported training of professional herders to improve livestock management
Ruby Valley Conservation District
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MT
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2006
The purpose of this grant was to provide funding to design, evaluate and establish the best restoration methods to create optimal pool and bank features and a viable spawning channel combined with improved irrigation management to create prime habitat to support reintroduction efforts for fluvial Arctic grayling in the upper Ruby River.
Rutgers University
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NJ
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2006
At the time this project was funded, NJ had introduced a draft standard for soil management. Rutgers agreed to provide the data needed to determine if following the standard would provide any measurable benefits to the soil
Rutgers University
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NJ
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2006
Install turfstone infiltrating stones on roadways in a container/greenhouse nursery operation in lieu of a concrete channel to encourage nutrient uptake and infiltration of runoff in the soil.
San Luis Valley RC & D
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CO
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2006
To demonstrate solar photovoltaic power production as a viable enterprise for the resource rich ag region known as the San Luis Valley.
San Jacinto Basin RCD
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CA
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2006
Irrigation system monitoring and improvement leading to optimization, real-time monitoring of soil moisture content to track accuracy of targeted water applications and adoption of rational irrigation strategies tailored to the special needs and problems, multiple harvest-curing cycles, associated with alfalfa irrigation.