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 211 - 220 of 1760 projects
Kansas State University
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KS
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2019
This project will compare nutrient availability in soils, herbaceous plants, and arthropods on grazing lawns and off grazing lawns. Then relate nutrient availability to lesser prairie-chicken use of cattle maintained landscapes in western Kansas and Colorado.
Kansas State University
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KS
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2019
This project will develop a web-based tool, optimized for mobile devices, capable of quantifying the percent of stubble, live vegetation, and bare soil.
Kansas State University
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KS
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2019
Quantify and demonstrate cover crop performance through arial seeding in Western Kansas
NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
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KY
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2019
This project will establish a soil health partner farmer network through creation of 1 full partner site and 3 associate partner sites located in the Lower Green River basin and the Salt River basin.
Native Ecosystem Services LLC
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HI
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2019
This project will use a native hydroseed product to combat and restore the detrimental effects of wildfires and severely eroded sites in Hawaii is the main goal of this project. Hydroseeding is defined as a planting process that uses a slurry of seed and hydromulch. The mulch mixture by itself is often called hydromulch, which at the time of application, is a mixture of water, fiber mulch, and tackifier. Hydromulch and seed mixed together essentially creates hydroseed. As described above, hydromulch and aerial seeding have been implemented in large scale restoration projects in the western U.S., but large scale hydroseeding after wildfires, besides studies which tested grass seeds in the Plains areas of the U.S., stands alone in lacking research. NES plans to test and prove the efficacy of using hydroseeding in the landscape scale fire restoration context. Hydroseeding using native seeds of trees, shrubs, and native grasses and sedges will quickly be the next new tool in the tool belt that will give managers the upper hand in forest restoration after wildfires or when tackling hard to establish eroded sites
Use of Short Season Variety Corn and Soybeans to Facilitate the Adoption of Multi-species Cover Crop
North Jersey RC&D
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NJ
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2019
North Jersey RC&D proposes a multiple location soil health demonstration planting short season corn and soybeans to facilitate adoption of planting multi-species cover crop. Planting traditional varieties of corn and soybeans does not allow producers to plant multi-species cover crop early enough to establish well and gain maximum soil health benefits of cover crops. Using a paired study design, a short season crop will be planted next to the producer’s traditional crop. This project will assess the agronomic potential and associated economic implications of harvesting early season corn and soy varieties by early September, in time to establish a multi-species winter cover crop.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2019
The purpose of this project is to encouage the adoption and implementation of habitat and wildlife conservation practices on agricultural working lands across Iowa by increasing farmer/producer technical knowledge of habitat and water quality conservation practice design and implementation on agricultural working lands. This project will also build social and community capital among producers to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of conservation practices on agricultural working lands.
Sunny Meadows Flower Farms
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OH
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2019
This project will demonstrate a system developed for a small-scale sustainable farm to optimize greenhouse management for cut flower production.
Sustainable Chesapeake
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VA
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2019
This award is for SusChes and project partners to have a 30-foot roller crimper built and demonstrated on farms in the Northern Neck to evaluate the agronomic performance of the roller crimper for yields, reducing soil temperature, improved soil moisture retention, and weed suppression. The specific objectives of this project are:
•Work with USDA ARS engineers to scale-up their roller crimper to a width that is suitable for commercial row crop production in the Virginia Tidewater area (12-rows, 30 ft.)
•Measure performance (including equipment performance, agronomic, and soil health outcomes) for at least two growing seasons through field trials and on-farm commercial deployment of the equipment at Robb Hinton’s Cedar Plains Farm to terminate high-biomass rye in commercial row crop farm setting with existing farm equipment on approximately 150-300 acres per year (for at least two years of the project.)
•Share results with producers, agronomy, and conservation professionals through publications, a fact sheet, field day events, and farmer meetings.
•If successful, support expanded adoption in Virginia and throughout the Chesapeake Bay region by allowing producers to try the roller crimper on their farms. This approach supports expanded adoption of NRCS conservation practices including: conservation cropping rotation (328), residue and tillage management no-till (329), cover crop (340), residue and tillage management reduced till (345), and Pest Management Conservation System (595).
•Work with USDA ARS engineers to scale-up their roller crimper to a width that is suitable for commercial row crop production in the Virginia Tidewater area (12-rows, 30 ft.)
•Measure performance (including equipment performance, agronomic, and soil health outcomes) for at least two growing seasons through field trials and on-farm commercial deployment of the equipment at Robb Hinton’s Cedar Plains Farm to terminate high-biomass rye in commercial row crop farm setting with existing farm equipment on approximately 150-300 acres per year (for at least two years of the project.)
•Share results with producers, agronomy, and conservation professionals through publications, a fact sheet, field day events, and farmer meetings.
•If successful, support expanded adoption in Virginia and throughout the Chesapeake Bay region by allowing producers to try the roller crimper on their farms. This approach supports expanded adoption of NRCS conservation practices including: conservation cropping rotation (328), residue and tillage management no-till (329), cover crop (340), residue and tillage management reduced till (345), and Pest Management Conservation System (595).
The Nature Conservancy
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NY
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2019
This project seeks to develop a behavioral change solution which, when implemented, will substaintially increase the percentage of NY state farmers implementing soil health best practices and develop a behavior science training package for farmer adviosrs.