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 271 - 280 of 1760 projects
Virginia State University
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VA
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2018
The purpose of this award is for Virginia State University (VSU) to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of using an environmentally controlled high tunnel production system, to include solar and wind energy technology as well as utilization of a large cistern for irrigation needs associated with the project. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) Demonstrate the effectiveness of alternative energy sources for high tunnel production to small, underserved, beginning and veteran farmers, (2) Demonstrate increased yield and profit potential by converting to an environmentally controlled high tunnel system to small, underserved, beginning and veteran farmers, (3) Provide education and training on these alternative management techniques to small, underserved, beginning and veteran farmers.
Virginia Tech
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VA
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2018
The purpose of this award is for VA Tech to demonstrate the added value to producers and the environment by converting a portion of a landowner’s tall fescue pastures to native warm season grass (NWSG) pastures, which will fill a gap (“summer slump”) in forage production systems and provide critical habitat for wildlife, such as bobwhite quail. This project will also complement a 2016 state CIG project that is addressing toxic fescue issues in Virginia and the need to reduce the amount of tall fescue pastures that host this toxic endophyte, which is the majority of them. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) Demonstrate the conversion of tall fescue pastures to NWSG pastures, (2) Determine the regional productivity and maturation rates of select NWSG species and varieties, and (3) Determine the forage characteristics and consequent performance of stocker cattle grazing on NWSG pastures during the summer months.
Virginia Tech
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VA
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2018
The purpose of this award is for VA Tech to assess the extent to which innovative soil testing for biological activity can be used in Virginia to not only gauge progress in improving soil health, but also to improve the accuracy of nitrogen (N) rate recommendations for selected crops. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) - Evaluate three soil tests involving the flush of CO2 from rewetted soils after 24 hours, 3 days, and 4 days as possible measures of soil health and nutrient cycling in Virginia cropping systems, (2) - Compare the results among these three methods to determine potential interchangeability of results, and (3) - Quantify and refine the relationship between results of the flush CO2 soil tests and N rate response of corn, wheat, and cool-season hay crops, with the goal of assessing whether these soil tests can be used to improve N rate recommendations for these crops.
Virginia Tech
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VA
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2018
The purpose of this award is for VA Tech to assess and demonstrate intercropping wheat with forage radish to obtain commercially viable wheat yield, while also realizing the benefits of forage radish: which include nutrient scavenging, decreasing soil compaction, keeping the soil covered, energizing with diversity and maximizing living roots. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) Determine if forage radish intercropped with wheat negatively affects wheat stand, tiller development or yield, (2) Evaluate if residual soil nitrogen (N) increases radish competitiveness in winter wheat. Also, investigate the potential for forage radish to scavenge excess nitrogen from a failed corn crop and then provide that N to a following wheat crop, (3) Examine the ability of forage radish to decrease soil compaction, and (4) - Evaluate herbicidal control options for overwintering forage radish in winter wheat.
Trees Forever
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IA
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2018
This project will create a dynamic and effective training program to enhance the knowledge base of retail crop specialists on the opportunities and resources available to establish high quality pollinator and wildlife habitat. This project will work with landowners and others to establish high quality demonstration plantings that will show how to establish pollinator plantings. Through field days, partners and landowners will benefit from direct knowledge transfer facilitated by first hand learning, having the opportunity to ask questions, and seeing results immediately.
Clemson University
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SC
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2018
The goal is to provide a multi-year field demonstration of cover crop termination time effects on nutrient provisions to cash crops, and economic and environmental returns in conservation farming systems.
Clemson University
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SC
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2018
The purpose of this project is to design a framework for payments for ecosystem services and to analyze adoption behavior A in the Santee Basin
Clemson University
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SC
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2018
The goal of this project is to establish four long-term demonstration sites of different cover crops species to better inform non-industrial private forest landowners, foresters, and policy makers about possible native alternatives to current BMP recommendations for soil stabilization on forest roads.
Clemson University
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SC
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2018
The goal of this project is to establish four long-term demonstration sites of different cover crops species to better inform non-industrial private forest landowners, foresters, and policy makers about possible native alternatives to current BMP recommendations for soil stabilization on forest roads.
Oregon State University
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OR
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2018
Oregon State University's (OSU) OregonFlora program will determine and demonstrate best practices for selecting and integrating native plant species into grazing lands managed by OSU. They will track the viability of native plant species in various grazing conditions to identify species compatible with livestock production. Benefits of native plants include improved soil health and hydrology, as well as an extended grazing season.