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 171 - 180 of 1760 projects
Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts
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AR
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2019
The overall goal of this project is to expand a farmer-led ASHA that would increase the outreach for an effective educational program among Arkansas farmers. The network would form a governing Board with additional officers and members, and develop a strategic plan. The AACD would work with the ASHA and University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (UA CES) to develop a strategic plan with ASHA, build membership drive and provide leadership training for ASHA conducted by UA CES (Julianne Dunn)
East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc.
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AR
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2019
This project will use several conservation practices: Cover Crop (340) applied with practices such as Conservation Crop Rotation (328), Residue and tillage management, No Till (329), Residue and Tillage Management, Reduced Till (345), Nutrient Management (590),
and Pest Management Conservation System (595) as conservation approaches that have been used separately as a cover crop system to enable producers to be increasingly flexible and adaptable when top and sub-soil conditions are not suitable to the cover crop production and termination guidelines. East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc. will provide technical assistance and outreach to enable 30 producers in the project will use a combination of the conservation practices in that best suit their farm conditions based on their conservation plans. They will collect, analyze, record and compile data to evaluate the process and outcome of the practices, incorporate the evaluation data into a written report with recommendations about the effectiveness and impact of the various practices in the system, and make recommendations about the transferability of the system of practices for use in alternative crop production. The group will conduct regularly scheduled meeting among the project partners to update them and to confer regarding any changes or modifications that need to be made in the project protocol in order to meet the objectives.
and Pest Management Conservation System (595) as conservation approaches that have been used separately as a cover crop system to enable producers to be increasingly flexible and adaptable when top and sub-soil conditions are not suitable to the cover crop production and termination guidelines. East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc. will provide technical assistance and outreach to enable 30 producers in the project will use a combination of the conservation practices in that best suit their farm conditions based on their conservation plans. They will collect, analyze, record and compile data to evaluate the process and outcome of the practices, incorporate the evaluation data into a written report with recommendations about the effectiveness and impact of the various practices in the system, and make recommendations about the transferability of the system of practices for use in alternative crop production. The group will conduct regularly scheduled meeting among the project partners to update them and to confer regarding any changes or modifications that need to be made in the project protocol in order to meet the objectives.
MAD Agriculture
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MT, NE
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2019
This project is designed to accelerate the adoption of regenerative and organic agriculture using an innovative financing vehicle, the Perennial Fund, to found Carbon Farm Plans that empower producers to access organic crops and carbon markets. Carbon Farm Planning, which builds on NRCS Conservation Planning, is a new and powerful framework for designing agricultural systems that recognize soil health as the foundation on which all agriculture depends. This project uses Carbon Farm Planning to activate financing and markets toward long-term investments in soil health and resource conservation. There are four primary activities: Carbon Farm Planning and agronomy; Carbon Farm Curriculum and Training; Perennial Fund Creation; and Crop and Carbon Market Development.
University of Minnesota
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MN
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2019
This project aims to employ cover crop legumes to reduce N pollution in vegetable rotations by taking up excess soil N and providing fixed nitrogen, while also providing flowering Habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects. While farmer interest is high, actual adoption of Cover Crops remains low due to lack of knowledge about optimal management, potential for nitrogen delivery, soil health improvement, and beneficial insect and pollinator services within vegetable rotations. This project takes the innovative approach of introducing flowering summer Cover Crops into vegetable systems, advancing the NRCS National Priority of integration of Pollinator Habitat into agricultural systems.
California Rice Commission
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CA
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2019
The primary goal of this project is to develop a model economic framework designed to provide long-term, sustained, private sector funding to increase the quality and quantity of waterbird Habitat in California’s ricelands. Each year at least a billion birds migrate along the Pacific Flyway, but these birds are only a fraction of those that used the flyway a century ago. Habitat loss and other factors threaten the birds of the Pacific Flyway. California, which is key to the Flyway, has lost 95% of its natural wetlands. Due to these extensive losses, creating and enhancing Habitat for wetland-dependant species is vital to the continued functioning of the Flyway.
Oregon State University
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OR
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2019
This project’s objective is to remove the barriers to the adoption of existing NRCS pollinator-friendly conservation practices in the PNW by a) measuring economic benefits of practices associated with pollinator Habitat; b) identifying forb, shrub and tree species that attract the widest spectrum of native bees and other beneficial insects; c) improving implementation of existing conservation practices using selective herbicides, fire and grazing that promote the establishment of target plant species and reduce the growth of weeds and d) using conservation practices to preserve beneficial insects during periods of intensive pesticide use.
EcoTrust
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OR
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2019
This project includes the design and implementation of a free and open-source web app enabling users across Oregon to auto-generate stewardship planning materials. The app will automate preparation of maps, tables, and supporting information for Oregon's FMP template.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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VA
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2019
Virginia Tech has partnered with the University of Tennessee and Smithsonian’s Virginia Working Landscapes to develop bee- friendly beef production technologies through a series of demonstration sites and on-farm trials. Specifically, the work addresses the following objectives: 1) document the establishment and persistence of wildflowers in grazing systems; 2) assess the benefits of wildflower-enhanced grazing systems for cattle; 3) assess the benefits of wildflower-enhanced grazing systems for pollinators; 4) calculate the economic profitability of wildflower-enhanced grazing systems; and 5) create educational materials and provide outreach about wildflower-enhanced grazing systems. The project team will measure wildflower establishment success and persistence, forage productivity and quality, cattle weight gain, pollinator attractiveness, and changes in costs and revenue compared to traditional grazing systems.
Flint River Fresh
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GA
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2019
The goal of this project is to increase the success rate of urban farmers in Southwest Georgia by offering education on useful and scale-appropriate technology that reduces energy and resource costs in their operations. As such, Flint River Fresh will provide no fewer than 80 new and beginning urban farmers in Albany, Georgia with demonstrations of effective and affordable small-scale farming and post-harvest handling technology to improve water use, soil health, and post-harvest water efficiency on their operations and to assist them in overcoming the high capital costs of installing production and post-harvest infrastructure. Of these, 40 producers will receive direct training about food safety requirements under FSMA and learn simple steps to conserve water and prevent biological contamination of raw produce from pre- and post-harvest surface water applications. It is expected that no fewer than 50 percent of workshop trainees will be socially disadvantaged or limited-resource producers. An estimated 3000 producers interested in small-scale production will observe demonstrations of urban farming and post-harvest technology at the small-scale farming exhibit at the 2019 Sunbelt Ag Expo.
Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2019
Greenhouse and high tunnel operations are a large and significant part of U.S. agriculture and also consume lots of Energy. Plastic films and various additives have been adopted in covering greenhouse and high tunnel structures for a long time. However, these technologies are mostly not able to efficiently and effectively modulate solar near-infrared Energy (utilize it for winter and block it in summer), independent of visible light for photosynthesis. In recent years, many studies on the optical and thermal properties of nanoparticles (NPs) have found a few plasmonic NPs can exhibit strong absorption and highly efficient light-to-heat conversion in the near-infrared region with no or few effects on the other spectral regions. This project is to develop, implement, and examine a new class of plastic films which are with dispersed prescribed plasmonic NPs.