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 11 - 20 of 1721 projects
Trout Unlimited
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CO
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2021
Within the Colorado's Gunnison River and Rio Grande basins, Trout Unlimited will work with eight producers to deploy the use of Long-Range Low Power Area Networks (LoRa) to improve wild flood and furrow irrigation water management on irrigated mountain valleys above 5,500 feet elevation. The producers adopting this technology will maintain the benefits provided by flood irrigation practices while improving efficiency in landscapes were more common systems upgrades like sprinklers are not practical.
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.
Campti Field of Dreams
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LA
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2021
No-Till organic market gardens (No-Till OMG) will combine virtual training, a market garden fertility toolkit, financial incentives, and peer-to-peer mentoring with performance-based results over three years to shift the mindset of participants, creating viable organic agricultural producers that do not till.
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.
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.
University of California Davis
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CA
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2021
UC Davis and Fresno State will partner with growers to evaluate deep root irrigation (DRI), pressure compensated subsurface drip irrigation (PSDI), and Hybrid Pb cover crops. Directly watering the root zone via DRI and PSDI may provide opportunities to save water and address key barriers to cover crop adoption. Hybrid Pb is a new cool-season cover crop which differs from traditional cover crops in that it is perennial and dormant in the summer. On-farm trials will assess and extend biogeochemical, economic, and ecological benefits and tradeoffs for these practices as well as soil health outcomes.
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.
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.
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.