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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 791 - 800 of 1721 projects
Bundling in-field and off-field nutrient practices to reduce nutrient export, improve drinking water quality, and address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
The Nature Conservancy     |     IL     |     2012
This project will provide landowner outreach and education to increase understanding and stimulate enrollment in innovative conservation practices and programs and implement an adaptive nutrient management program and quantify its environmental performance. The project will also develop and refine replicable and transferable methods for producing watershed maps of tile-drained areas and apply watershed tile maps to guide locations for strategic outreach, wetland placement, and monitoring. It will also construct wetlands and quantify their environmental performance. Additionally, the project will quantify the environmental performance of a nutrient management program that bundles in-field and off-field practices for increased nutrient use efficiency and reduced nutrient export and develop and evaluate a watershed-scale management program for sustainable nutrient reduction that integrates ecosystem services (i.e., payment for services) with the nutrient management program developed during this project, previous research, existing watershed plans and current NRCS conservation programs.
Refining and Harmonizing Phosphorus Indices in the Chesapeake Bay Region to Improve Critical Source Area Identification and to Address Nutrient Management Priorities
The Pennsylvania State University     |     PA     |     2012
This regional project will coordinate the testing and revision of phosphorous management tools within the states encompassing the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with general objectives to harmonize site assessment and nutrient management recommendations with the NRCS 590 standard and to promote consistency within each of the Bays four major physiographic provinces. This regional project is one of four (three regional, one national) proposed under coordination of SERA-17, with goals to support the refinement of state Phosphorous Indices and to demonstrate their accuracy in identifying the magnitude and extent of phosphorous loss risk and their utility to improve water quality. The proposed project will promote innovations in phosphorous management at state (harmonizing Phosphorous Indices) and local (changes in behavior of farmers and/or technical service providers developing and implementing Phosphorous Indices) levels to enhance the health of the Chesapeake Bay. The project involves six objectives designed to ensure that refinement of Phosphorous Indices is grounded in the best available science, reflects local conditions and concerns and anticipates impacts to water quality and farm management.
Expanding the Implementation Capacity of Practice 799
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service     |     AR     |     2012
The objective of the project is to reduce these barriers so that EOF monitoring can be implemented on a more wide-spread basis through: 1) field demonstration of lower-cost automated sampling equipment through comparison with already-established automated sampling stations on Arkansas Discovery Farms and other MRBI monitoring locations and 2) help build the capacity of technical service providers, NRCS field personnel, County Agents, and crop consultants, to provide EOF through the development of a training and outreach program that can be utilized throughout the MRBI region.
Farming for native bees
The Regents of the University of California     |     CA     |     2012
This project proposes to provide a stable, cost-effective and sustainable supplement to honeybee pollination through the establishment of new Habitats that will conserve and protect California’s native bees. The project will also educate Californians about native bees and their critical importance to agriculture.
Next steps in pollinator conservation: Operations and maintenance, organic Habitat restoration, expanding seed mix choices, and assessing conservation effectiveness
Xerces Society, Inc     |     OR     |     2012
This project proposes to develop a Long-Term Operations and Maintenance Guidance for Established Habitats. This will advance the Science of Habitat Restoration Using Organic Technique, will increase the Availability of High Value Plant Materials and will assess the Effectiveness of Restoration for Pollinator Communities.
Local Utilization of Agricultural Credits Program
Borough of Chambersburg     |     PA     |     2012
The purpose of the Program is to provide credit aggregation, inter-basin trading, and baseline and threshold compliance barrier solutions relating to the Pennsylvania Nutrient Trading Program by creating an aggregation program for credits generated by cover crop and conservation tillage BMPs and with education and outreach targeted to the Commonwealth’s Plain Sect agricultural operators. The following are goals of the Project:
• To increase non-point source pollution reduction activities on agricultural operations by funding cover crop and conservation tillage BMPs on over 3,700 acres in Adams, Cumberland, and Franklin Counties
• To overcome the baseline / threshold compliance trading barrier of the Pennsylvania Nutrient Credit Trading Program by identifying agricultural operations missing the required erosion, sedimentation, pollution control, and nutrient management plans and working with the operators to complete the missing plan documents.
• To increase the opportunity for Plain Sect agricultural operators to enroll in the Pennsylvania Nutrient Credit Trading Program by creating an education and outreach program specifically targeted to serving those communities and to create guidance for continued inclusion in the Pennsylvania Nutrient Credit Trading Program
• To overcome the inter-basin trading barrier of the Pennsylvania Nutrient Credit Trading Program through establishing a multi-disciplined task force and the implementation of innovative trading factors
P Index and Snowmelt Runoff Risk Assessment: Demonstration and Refinement
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System     |     WI     |     2012
This project proposes to demonstrate the ability of a process-based Phosphorous Index formulation to assess management effects on runoff phosphorous losses from fields under frozen soil conditions. The project will test and refine the method used in a process-based Phosphorous Index to determine the effect of field management practices on frozen soil runoff volume and adapt the refined frozen soil runoff risk assessment method (within the process-based Phosphorous Index) to identify field conditions and management practices capable of minimizing runoff when animal manure is applied to frozen soils. This project will promote NRCS Conservation Practice Standard Code 799 Monitoring and Evaluation by demonstrating the prototype flow measurement gage on farm fields under winter conditions observed in Dane County, Wisconsin. It will also improve the functionality of the prototype flow gage by adding a user-friendly interface that will allow landowners to easily access gage data.
Assessment of Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) Nutrient Management Projects and Recommendations for Future Adoption and Incorporation into Practice Standards
American Society of Agronomy     |     WI     |     2012
The project goal is to evaluate 36 projects, resulting in recommendations and practice standards to be incorporated in NRCS policy.
Improving soil health and nutrient recycling with Cover Crops for beginning high tunnel specialty crop growers
West Virginia University Research Corporation     |     WV     |     2012
The project purpose is to demonstrate the integration of Cover Crops to high tunnel production systems. The additive effects of high tunnels and Cover Crops will be demonstrated to beginning, limited resource high tunnel producers. Cover Crops will be shown to facilitate rotations, as well as improving soil health, reducing soil moisture evaporation, fertilizer application, secondary tillage and weed emergence.
Optimizing water and nitrogen use efficient tillage and legume cover crop systems for California tomato and cotton production
The Regents of the University of California     |     CA     |     2012
The goals of this project are to demonstrate soil quality improving practices, extend quantitative information on the impacts of different soil management practices that aim to optimize resource use efficiency, increase understanding of the extent to which these practices may improve soil quality, and create greater awareness of the importance of soil quality that will eventually lead to increased adoption of improved precision tillage and cover crop practices. Adoption of these techniques would result in cheaper crop production systems, increased carbon in the soil, reduced fertilizer use and nitrogen losses, and reduced dust.
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