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 31 - 40 of 1760 projects
NATIVE MICROBIALS, INC.
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CA, CO, IN, NM, OR, TX, WA
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2022
Native Microbials Inc. will implement the use of a next generation, rumen-native microbial feed supplement to both improve feed efficiency and reduce enteric methane emissions on 20 commercial dairy farms in the Western United States. The project team will evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a climate-smart solution that sustainably mitigates enteric methane emissions and provides a novel enteric methane emissions quantification method for dairy cattle at a commercial scale.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY - Bardhan Ally Cropping
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MO
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2022
This project will Intercrop a diverse mix of native, perennial species into an alley cropping system to maximize resilience, productivity, and farm income.
GREEN HEFFA FARMS INC
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GA, NC, PA
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2022
Green Heffa Farms will promote innovative conservation approaches specifically targeting the unique needs and limitations of producers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Project partners have recruited black women, beginning farmers to implement conservation approaches that reclaim traditional ecological knowledge to compare the effects of composting and mulching, cover cropping, conservation crop rotation, low-till to no-till, and herbaceous wind barriers. The project will focus on expanding knowledge of traditional medicinal plants and regenerative organic farming practices.
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM
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National, AS, GU, MP, PR, UM, VI
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2022
This project is an umbrella project for three separate project developing The Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool (FRST). The aim of FRST is to improve the accuracy and transparency of soil-test based fertilizer recommendations by updating decades-old phosphorus and potassium recommendations and making the data available for use by anyone involved in nutrient management through the FRST tool. Improving soil-test-based recommendations and their interpretation has the potential to significantly reduce nutrient applications by accurately identifying the critical soil test value.
Foodlink, Inc.
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NY
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2021
The goal of this project is to leverage an innovative waste management technology, aerobic digestion, to fundamentally shift how Foodlink – a food bank that also manages an urban farm – handles its organic waste while meeting the city of Rochester’s needs to reduce waste and access high-quality, food-grade compost. With support from the Conservation Innovation Grant program, Foodlink will purchase an aerobic digester, a commercial-strength chipper-shredder, and build an effective composting space at our Lexington Avenue Community Farm.
Maine Farmland Trust
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ME
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2021
This project shares soil health data and practices to increase farm viability and climate resilience.
Croatan Institute
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CO, ME, MA, MO
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2021
This project provides a supply chain solution to conservation by tying the food products to the production attributes (price discovery). Producers are compensated for the risk/inputs for those attributes and the markets are established by consumers in the recognition and payment of defined attributes. The end product will use the app Market Square to facilitate a pilot of producer to consumer transactions to establish market values.
Black Hawk SWCD
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IA
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2021
This project addresses innovation of an NRCS conservation practice standard within the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy of the Nitrogen Management Practice of annual cover cropping. A perennial cover crop is innovative and this project will advance the field of conservation because of the reduced management requirements compared to annual cover cropping, with multiple ecosystem benefits provided by the perennial cover.
GSR Solutions, Inc.
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VT
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2021
The overall long-term goal of this project is to develop and implement a market-based innovative and sustainable farmer-friendly conservation practice that would allow dairy farmers to convert their unmanageable excessive manure nutrient load and carbon emissions into organic slow-release marketable soil fertility products for crop production, and second their application by crop producers would enable replacement of imported soil health products. EQUIP qualified Vermont based farms and growers along with farmer stakeholders will contribute to this project for evaluating high nutrient recovery potential, conducting field trials of organic slow-release products for warm and cold season crops, and market-based product quality. the main project deliverables and anticipated project results are as follows: 1) Quantify environmental and economic benefits for facilitating improved implementation of NRCS water quality measures by conducting nutrient recovery trials in the most environmentally sensitive watershed of Franklin County, VT, and projecting nutrient recovery benefits for 20 farms in Franklin as well as Grand Isle counties for replicating the process to other counties in Vermont in the future; 2) Quantify soil-health benefits as well as carbon sequestration from nutrient recovery process through field trials of the new organic soil amendments produced from the innovative conservation practice by using the established methods developed by University Extension programs; 3) Deliver the new conservation practice and information about the marketability of the soil fertility products to farmers and stakeholders through field days, workshops, webinars, publications, and other outreach activities.
Juniper Environmental, LLC
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KS, NE
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2021
This study aims to evaluate the performance of Low Tech Process Based (LTPB)complexes in Great Plains prairie streams to promote them as viable practices in the region to improve climate resiliency by addressing the effects of extreme climate events related to water quality, depth to water table, riparian & pasture vegetation improvements, and wildlife habitat over the course of three growing seasons.