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.
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University of Florida Board of Trustees
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FL
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2013
The focus of this project is on water conservation due to current and predicted water scarcity and drought in the Southeastern United States through better irrigation practices. This project will address adaptation to drought through improved irrigation water use efficiency by incorporating more spatially accurate rainfall data, an irrigation deficit index, and primed acclimation strategies into already developed smartphone/tablet SmartIrrigation apps for citrus, cotton, strawberry, and turfgrass production. The improved Smartirrigation apps, developed in coordination with the Southeast Climate Consortium, will be demonstrated by engaging producers and extension agents to use and evaluate them. The project will result in dissemination and greater adoption of easy to use, reliable, and easily accessible tools by producers in a region of the country where drought has been a persistent problem for the past decade resulting in a need for more efficient use of water resources. This will allow producers to make smarter, more sustainable decisions on using limited water supplies and potentially conserving water.
Texas AgriLife Research
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TX
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2013
Periods of drought such as the historic drought of 2012 are common in Texas, where irrigated agriculture consumes more than 90% of the total water used. It is imperative to embrace technologies that optimize irrigation and conserve agricultural water such as irrigation guidelines based on historical weather station data that incorporate crop evapotranspiration for planning irrigation. The main purpose of this project is to develop agronomic and irrigation strategies to manage drought conditions in irrigated agriculture and grazed land. The specific objectives are (1) to develop irrigation guidelines for sugarcane, citrus, corn, cotton and corn, onions and watermelons, and pastures in the Lower Rio Grande Valley for full irrigation and limited water supplies and determine irrigation priorities for these crops according to profitability and water use efficiency; (2) develop an internet based computer program to adapt irrigation management according to drought conditions using the weather station network; (3) establish five field demonstrations on EQIP eligible producer farms to demonstrate water scheduling strategies using remote soil water sensors and internet based data and quantify water use, irrigation with poly-pipe, water application efficiency and net return per unit of water applied; and (4) organize field days, workshops and extension factsheets (English and Spanish) to divulge these technologies.
Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District
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GA
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2013
With GPS-guided variable rate irrigation systems that are able to adapt application rates to field conditions in real-time, and new advanced irrigation scheduling tools that are cost-effective and built for both conservation and crop performance, irrigation management on the modern farm is set to make a quantum leap forward in water use efficiency. The next step in the evolution of on-farm irrigation water management is to reduce the cost of advanced irrigation scheduling from thousands of dollars to hundreds of dollars per site to make the approach accessible to all producers. The goals of the project are to develop and deploy a new low-cost tool, help up to 50 agricultural producers optimize irrigation scheduling, and build a conservation model for the future of agricultural water use in the United States.
Monadnock Conservancy
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NH
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2013
Planting Potentially Blight Resistant American Chestnuts in an Actively Managed Forest to Increase Diversity, Compete with American Beech, and Provide Hard Mast for Wildlife on Conservation Land
McKinley Soil and Water Conservation District
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NM
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2013
Purchase no-till drill and administer no-till drill loan/lease program.
LSU AgCenter
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LA
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2013
Demonstrate the potential for residual soil nitrogen recovery during the winter season using high nitrogen input crops such as tillage radish and annual ryegrass and for improvement of soil parameters in pastures.
Marin RCD
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CA
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2013
The Marin Carbon Project (MCP) Sequestering Carbon in California Soils (Seq- C Soils) proposal engages agricultural producers as ecosystem stewards to provide on-farm ecological benefits and mitigate global climate change. MCP’s first four years of research demonstrated that agricultural land management practices can measurably increase rates of carbon sequestration, resulting in enhanced soil quality and soil water holding capacity and increased soil carbon and forage production (Ryals and Silver 2012). We propose to follow up on our research and planning efforts by completing Carbon Farm Action Plans for three (3) Marin County farms using NRCS resource assessment tools and criteria augmented with carbon sequestration capacity estimates derived from COMET-FARM, Marin Carbon Project research data (including the Century Model as calibrated for Marin soils), and other tools and data sources as appropriate.
Lincoln University
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MO
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2013
Lincoln University proposes to evaluate the technology used for over-seeding cover crops into standing corn. We will do this by modifying a high clearance chemical sprayer to seed cover crops. Several seeding mechanisms will be used to evaluate the one or more seeder methods best suited for over-seeding cover crops into standing corn and soybeans. Aerial seeding may not always be available when moisture conditions are optimal. Having a ground driven seeding capability allows producers to get into their fields and sow the cover crops at or near optimal weather/moisture conditions for seed germination.
Laine Farms and NJ Audubon Society
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NJ
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2013
The goal will be to monitor fields, planted at different seeding rates of spelt, to determine bird use and breeding. An additional goal will be to monitor the yield of these fields to determine if certain seeding rates, although beneficial to breeding birds, may not be economically beneficial to producers to consider in their rotation. An analysis of the production cost/income of spelt as an alternate crop to production/income of warm season grasses (WSG) that are used for biofuels will be performed.
Kirsten J. Robertson
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SC
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2013
Pilot study & demonstration site for drought resistant grazing.