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 291 - 300 of 1760 projects
The Nature Conservancy of Colorado
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CO
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2018
To survive in an increasingly challenging management environment, ranchers often rely on technical assistance. Access to comprehensive information about land potential enhances adaptive management, and having tools for easy, meaningful monitoring is critical. By using the free, open source Land-Potential Knowledge System(LandPKS) mobile app, ranchers can rapidly identify soils, and inventory and monitor vegetation for use in management decisions. This existing tool provides much of the needed information for ranchers to make appropriate management decisions, but additional information about livestock forage utilization and wildlife Habitat potential other resource values (e.g., grassland bird management) is needed to improve the utility of this tool. Although used internationally, LandPKS has yet to be tested with US ranchers.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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TX
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2018
This project aims to increase implementation of soil health management practices across the South Central U.S. through improved communication of the soil and production benefits of novel double-cropping systems and supporting economic analyses.
Johnson Creek Farm, LLC
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SC
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2018
This project seeks to demonstrate conservation forage practices management on Johnson Creek Farm Pastured Pig Project. The goal is to educate other farmers regarding this pasture finished practice is paramount to the overall goals of the project. Recording and disseminating information throughout the process will be vital in allowing this to occur.
GSWCC
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GA
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2018
This agreement seeks to address and expand upon an important agronomic tool of using cover crops for soil health in agricultural production systems. The field tests will present state-specific examples of blended cover crops, display species-specific seasonal growth patterns, and acquire data addressing impacts on soil health and crop production. We anticipate the beneficiaries of this project to include row crop producers, cattle and other grazing animal producers, organic farmers, and horticultural researchers
GSWCC
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GA
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2018
The purpose of this agreement is to enable NRCS and GSWCC to demonstrate the effectiveness of Georgia Cover Crop Standards (Code 340) by conducting field tests of species mixes in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont land use areas of the state. This agreement seeks to address and expand upon an important agronomic tool of using cover crops for soil health in agricultural production systems. The field tests will present state-specific examples of blended cover crops, display species-specific seasonal growth patterns, and acquire data addressing impacts on soil health and crop production. We anticipate the beneficiaries of this project to include row crop producers, cattle and other grazing animal producers, organic farmers, and horticultural researchers
Oklahoma State University
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OK
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2018
The southern Great Plains is a challenging land to produce a crop. The implementation of adapted soil health management systems will lead to the optimization of productivity, maximization of input efficiencies, and reduction of the negative impacts on the environment. All of which will lead to a long term sustainable system. This project will help define how soil health is measured and introduce value added components of an adapted soil health management system such as weed control and improved nitrogen management strategies. Demonstrating the vast impacts of an applied soil health management system will lead to an increased adoption and implementation of the strategies.
Clara White Mission
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FL
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2018
The three objectives of the project are to: 1) Improve soil biology levels and incorporate practices to promote and sustain soil health; 2) develop onsite nutrient production in a compost facility and establish an onsite solid biology assessment office; and 3) implement an Integrated Pest Management program.
University of Idaho (CERT)
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ID
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2018
Monitoring of forage availability, utilization, and residual biomass across the growing season is the primary basis for making livestock management decisions in grazingland systems. However, field measures of vegetation are often unreliable at estimating available forage and actual livestock use at the ranch scale due to heterogeneous patterns of vegetation and grazing impacts. Remote sensing estimates of vegetation biomass across the growing season exist but have yet to be paired with data on livestock locations to evaluate potential for quantifying grazing intensity. Integration of field and remote‐sensing measures for monitoring forage availability, utilization, and residual biomass will help ranchers manage at ranch scales. Our objective is to develop a system for assessing grazing impacts at ranch scales that integrates plot‐based field utilization measurements with remotely‐sensed quantification of grazing intensity. Specifically, we will expand and validate existing remote sensing maps of forage biomass and change in biomass in northeast Oregon and southern Idaho, evaluate and improve a suite of field methods for estimating utilization and residual biomass, and use field‐collected data paired with livestock GPS‐collar data to validate the remote sensing biomass change maps as an index of grazing intensity. These results will be built into the Climate Engine Rangeland Tool (CERT), an online tool to analyze and visualize forage availability, utilization, and grazing intensity. We will work with private ranchers to integrate the CERT system into their ranch‐specific management.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2018
This project aims to facilitate companies collaborating to create market solutions to increase demand and production of small grains for animal feed and cover crop seed, positively impacting water quality, soil health and greenhouse gas emissions.
University of Idaho (Global Rangelands)
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ID
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2018
This project aims to leverage the considerable expertise and resources of the Rangelands Partnership (RP), developers of the suite of GlobalRangelands.org websites, to develop a grazinglands thesaurus that will improve the effectiveness of finding and delivering key grazingland management to conservation planners and other land managers.