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 21 - 30 of 1721 projects
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.
Handsome Brook Farms, LLC
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KY
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2021
Handsome Brook Farm will support five beginning farmers in Kentucky to adopt climate-smart regenerative egg practices. This on-farm trial will establish on-farm manure management, storage, and distribution systems designed to reduce GHG emissions, and reduce on-farm soil erosion and drastically reduce watershed pollution through pasture enhancements and investments in housing infrastructure.
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.
WVU Research Corporation
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OH, PA, WV
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2021
WVU Research Corporation will promote and evaluate pasture diversification through reseeding as an innovative conservation strategy. The on-farm trials will compare reseeding pasture with a highly diverse mixture to unaltered pasture and conventional reseeding. This project seeks to demonstrate to producers across Appalachia that reseeding to increase pasture diversity provides a wide variety of environmental and economic benefits.
The Nature Conservancy
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MI, WI
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2021
The Nature Conservancy will evaluate different dairy feed management strategies, including emerging feed additives. The aim of the project is to better inform GHG mitigation strategies for cattle, NRCS programs, and the development of protocols for measuring enteric emissions. This three-year project will combine on-farm trials and demonstrations, interviews and surveys of key stakeholders, and targeted communication activities to catalyze broader adoption of NRCS Feed Management Practice Standard 592.
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).
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.
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona
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AZ
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2021
This on-farm demonstration trial will promote climate-smart and soil health agricultural practices among small-scale farmers in Arizona. The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Blankinship soil health laboratory at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and collaborating farmers will use farmer participatory research to promote climate-smart agricultural and soil health management systems.
North Carolina State University
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NC
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2021
Enhanced efficiency fertilizers (EEFs) containing urease and nitrification inhibitors are an effective way to prevent ammonia volatilization and reduce nitrous oxide emissions. Through this on-farm trial, North Carolina State University will provide critical information on the efficacy of reducing nitrogen and/or using inhibitors on emissions and corn yield in the low soil carbon, hot and humid conditions of the southeast. This project will use the data to optimize a N2O emission model to support broader interpretations outside the field sites. The on-farm trial will include six field sites each year in the main corn growing regions in North Carolina.
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.