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 1061 - 1070 of 1760 projects
NC State University
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NC
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2010
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate installation and operation of the ncsu under floor belt manure collection system and to quantify the recoverable Energy in the collected solids by either gasification or anaerobic digestion and determine the form, availability, and mass of nitrogen and phosphorus in liquid and solid residues so a proper land application system can be designed.
Purdue University
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IN
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2010
The purpose of this project is to increase the rate of adoption of emerging nutrient management practices through an innovative determination of optimal selection and placement of the practices for environmental benefits; adaptive selection and placement of practices based on local goals, attitudes, and site-specific targets through stakeholder input; participation with local watershed groups to apply practices, and monitoring of success of early adopters to encourage adaptive management.
Conservation Commission of Oklahoma
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OK
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2010
The purpose of this project is to develop, demonstrate, and implement carbon sequestration verification protocols for agricultural and silvicultural practices that are recognized to have carbon market value to ensure environmental benefits of ecosystem market transactions
Maryland Department of Agriculture
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MD
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2010
The purpose of this project is to utilize an on farm nutrient assessment and bmp credit calculation tool developed to facilitate ecosystem market trading for inventorying farmer’s voluntary conservation practices.
The Wetlands Initiative
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IL
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to develop a communication and outreach strategy to engage the producers in the targeted sub-watersheds of the MRBI CCPI program in order to provided information and technical assistance for the implementation of specific conservation practices that will reduce nutrient and sediment loading rates in the Big Bureau Creek Watershed.
Agriculture & Land-Based Training Association
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CA
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2010
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate and transfer conservation technology and practices to primarily spanish-speaking beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged farmers and introduce and support the target farmers’ partnership with nrcs by demonstrating and transferring technologies and practices.
East Arkansas Enterprise Community
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AR
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to create a Mississippi River Basin Initiative (MRBI) demonstration and program outreach that includes a combination of avoiding, controlling, and trapping practices to manage nutrients and reduce nutrient loads to improve producer adoption of conservation practices/resource management systems and approaches to manage nutrients.
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc
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NY
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2010
The purpose of this project is to develop a set of rangeland carbon offsets protocols for three general project types: avoided conversion of native rangelands and conservation reserve program (crp) lands to croplands, restoration of croplands to grasslands, and conservation management of native rangelands.
National Wild Turkey Federation
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SC
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to develop a four tier system for NRCS field offices to make proper recommendations to landowners for longleaf pine ecosystem restoration efforts.
Genesis Industries LLC
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CA
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2010
The purpose of this award is for the grantee to build, install, and operate Genesis CR-2 Machines which consume waste biomass waste (including poultry litter), capture CO2, and generate both biochar and renewable Energy.