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 71 - 80 of 1721 projects
The Ohio State University
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KY, OH
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2020
This project will run a simulation model to optimize livestock ventilation system designs and install high efficiency direct drive electronically commultated (EC) motors, sensors, and controllers on a 2,400 head swine tunnel finishing barn and a 300 head dairy farm.
Texas A&M Agrilife Research
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AZ, CA, TX, WA
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2020
Texas A&M will use innovative integration of camera, image, and sensor technology to create a tool to monitor wildlife tepcially difficult to observe. Dramatic images, fine-scale data, ArcGIS compatibility, and an accessible web interface will empower producers and scientists to better monitor wildlife on agricultural land.
Texas A&M Agrilife Research
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CO
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2020
To inform the development of a decision and implementation tool applying fresh water and wastewater mixed with fresh water applied to open-lot surfaces to reduce NH3 emissions.
University of Illinois
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IL, IA, MN
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2020
This project will design and evaluate bioreactors and saturated buffers that address variable flow, increase the volume of water treated look at how site factors may impact performance, and test innovative nitrogen monitoring methods that could lead to market-based water quality solutions
Homer Soil and Water Conservation District
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AK
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2020
This project will identify, demonstrate, and field test GPS tracking systems(s) suitable for real time remote tracking of the movements of cattle grazed on the 15,670 acre Fox River Flats state grazing lease at the head of Kachemak Bay.
Cornell University CCE Urban Soil Health
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NY
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2020
CCE seeks to investigate three management approaches for vegetable farmers with high organice matter soils: pH adjustment, cover cropping, and calibrating soil test results to account for bulk density. Location in NYC, Buffalo, and Penn Yan
American Farmland Trust
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MA
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2020
With crashing milk prices, rising land competition, climate change, & now the devastating impacts due to COVID-19, the future of agriculture in the northeast is in peril. To survive this &, future disasters, whether due to climate change or public health emergencies, agricultural industries across the spectrum must build resilience & improve longterm viability in part through the implementation of soil health management systems (SHMS). With improved soil health practices, Massachusetts farms can strengthen their financial standing, setting them up for greater stability & presence in our local food system. Leveraging data from American Farmland Trust’s (AFT) on-farm soil health demonstration (SHD) network, which includes four dairy & vegetable farms in Massachusetts, AFT will stimulate the adoption of cover crops & other soil health practices by women through the sharing of short-term soil, economic, & social changes that occur as the SHD farms transition to full SHMS. These examples will be shared & discussed with women farmers during three Soil Health Learning Circles, aimed at working with women landowners & women farmers including farmers of color, to improve access to resources & enable better stewardship & farmland protection. Following the Learning Circles, six in-depth profiles highlighting women farmers from across MA will be produced, capturing participants' stories of newly gained conservation knowledge or successful implementation of soil health practices. Additionally, in an effort to provide cover crop & no-till implementation education in a more technical & hands-on setting, we will also execute a soil-health demonstration field day highlighting on-farm soil health trials, & the use & operation of equipment such as a roller crimper, no-till seed drill, & a no-till vegetable transplanter.
Texas A&M Agrilife Research
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TX
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2020
To develop and demonstrate a biochar-assisted phytoremediation system for enhancing water quality during dairy manure application, improving knowledge of field-applied calcium hydroxide-coated biochar and how, when used in conjunction with plants, it can help enhance water quality during dairy manure application.
Davidians Farm Market LLC
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MA
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2020
This CIG innovation trial integrates cover crops & reduced tillage into our conventional shaped-bed vegetable production in order to improve soil health, while reducing emissions and inputs. The proposed innovative trial is for a cropping system that uses a plastic mulch for vegetable crops on a shaped bed, with an overwintering clover cover crop between the vegetable rows throughout the whole year. The purchase of a new FORIGO stone burier allows us to establish shaped bed vegetable rows with only one tractor pass & no herbicides, while maintaining clover from the winter between vegetable rows, thus keeping soil intact in nearly half of the field. This cropping system will be compared to a conventionally tilled & shaped shaped-bed system that uses weed mats instead of cover crops between rows & involves seven or more passes to each row with a tractor with different equipment. Using a comprehensive soil health assessment from Cornell, with assistance from a soil conservationist, we will compare soil health metrics, soil moisture retention capacity, soil organic matter, & soil nutrient content, fuel, water, fertilizer, & herbicide use, weed suppression, & vegetable yields (pounds/acre) between the production systems. We anticipate that compared to conventional practices, the proposed trial will improve soil health, increase soil moisture & organic matter retention, and decrease fuel, water, fertilizer, & herbicide needs—while providing similar weed suppression and similar yields to conventional methods. The project will serve as a case study for the innovative integration of a new technology with soil health practices to improve soil health while maintaining yields & reducing external resource inputs, & will be shared widely through workshops & conferences in collaboration with NRCS & the Worcester County Conservation District.
Iowa Soybean Association
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IA
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2020
Increase farmer and agronomist adoption of practices that enhance soil health, specifically soil health testing (SHT) and cover crop adoption, through development of an user-friendly web-based portal that provides practical interpretations of key soil health test results and provides economic information about cover crops as a major soil health enhancement practice in Iowa.