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 441 - 450 of 1760 projects
KCOE ISOM, LLP
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WY
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2016
KCOE Isom proposes to stimulate private investment in Habitat mitigation markets in seven Western states by creating a pilot-scale catalyst fund to ensure landowners’ cost recovery for land management activities that restore sage-grouse Habitat. By guaranteeing cost recovery and enabling landowner financing, the project will reduce investment risk and attract private capital into Habitat mitigation markets.
XERCES Society, Inc
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OR
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2016
In partnership with major food companies, agricultural investors, and conservation-minded farmers, the Xerces Society proposes to develop and launch a first-of-its-kind certification program that incentivizes the large-scale adoption of pollinator conservation through a marketing-driven platform. This program, known as Bee Better Farming, will leverage scalable investments from the private sector to develop clearly defined pollinator conservation metrics that will be rewarded with a formally recognized certification.
The Nature Conservancy
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ID
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2016
The Nature Conservancy proposes to work with commercial lenders and impact investors to develop a program that provides reduced operating loan rates in exchange for the implementation of conservation practices that build a producer’s natural resource base. This project could serve as a model for valuing soil health and other risk mitigating conservation systems as part of a producer’s overall financial approach.
Ecotrust Forest Management
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OR
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2016
EcoTrust Forest Management proposes to design an investment vehicle that is capable of aggregating private capital at a scale, and combine it with public and philanthropic dollars to achieve measurable impact goals around forestland productivity and conservation across different forest types in Oregon and Washington. This innovative conservation finance approach can serve as a model for structuring investment funds that pool capital from private, public and philanthropic sources.
NATIVEEnergy, INC.
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VT
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2016
NativeEnergy, Inc.’s Mobile Separator Project (MSP) is an innovative approach to improve dairy farms’ manure management, reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) at the farm, and capture and remove excess nutrients from the farm. The MSP will employ a technology that is proven in the broader agriculture industry (i.e., separators at larger farms with anaerobic digesters) but has historically been very difficult or impossible to financially justify at smaller farms due to poor economies of scale. The MSP addresses the economies of scale issue for locations where there are a number of small dairy farms in close proximity to each other.
University of Arkansas System
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AK
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2016
University of Arkansas proposes to coordinate and synthesize P management nationally, harmonizing site assessment and nutrient management recommendations compliant with the 2010 NRCS 590 Standard, and promoting consistency among state recommendations. This project will work with regional efforts to calibrate and harmonize P Indices across the U. S. and demonstrate their accuracy in identifying the magnitude and extent of P loss risk and their utility to improving water quality. These regional efforts are Coastal Plain, Northeast, Heartland, and Southeast States. The overarching goal of this project is to improve the effectiveness of site risk assessment using P Indices compliant with the NRCS 590 Nutrient Management Standard across the nation.
Kansas State University
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KS
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2016
Kansas State University proposes to demonstrate that adoption of cover crop systems will improve soil health, reduce P loss, and protect water quality. Our objectives are to quantify the effects of Cover Crops on: i) surface runoff and P loss, ii) soil health, and iii) temporal trends of near-surface soil moisture. By achieving these objectives, we will identify specific mechanisms by which cover crop integration can reduce runoff, sediment loss, and nutrient loss. We will further demonstrate that improved soil health results in decreased runoff, sediment, and nutrient loss. The data collected through this project will be part of a long-term dataset for edge-of-field water quality monitoring and soil health management systems, thus laying the foundation for long-term demonstrations of cropping system effects on soil health improvement and water quality protection.
Schwab Dairy Farms, LLC
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NY
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2016
This project will install a Livestock Water Recycling (LWR) system, an innovative technology that separates dairy manure into clean water and nutrient components. LWR’s process is an industry accepted innovation for extracting 70% of the water out of the manure while capturing nutrients in a segregated, concentrated form.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2016
Practical Farmers of Iowa proposes to test a new model for conservation adoption to increase the number of acres of small grains grown as a third crop in the corn and soybean rotation; will improve market access through supply chain engagement, support farmer adoption and awareness of the agronomic, economic, and conservation benefits of small grains, and incentivize the delay in benefits to the farmer (yield and markets) through cost share payments.
Cornell University, Inc
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NY
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2016
The P Index (PI) is one of the principal nutrient planning tools addressing P related water resource concerns under the NRCS 590 Nutrient Management Standard. The proposed work will result in more effective, science-based P management practices in the entire region, with a unified approach that reflects the state-of-the science of P management, is more regionally consistent in its management recommendations, promotes under-adopted practices of highest priority to nutrient management, and enables farmers to reduce P balances over time. Partners in the project will involve stakeholders through feedback and development meetings, Farm-level case studies, and field-based PI assessments, use modeling of various BMP options to ensure the P index is directionally correct and effective in incentivizing implementation of the most promising BMPs. The project will result in significant improvements in PI interpretations/ recommendations in the Northeast region.