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 811 - 820 of 1760 projects
The University of Tennessee
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TN
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2012
This project proposes to collect, store and irrigate with rainwater captured from high tunnels using gravity pressure or solar power to avoid power consumption from pumping ground water and surface water supplies. This project will manage the passive ventilation systems in high tunnels to create more optimum air temperatures for plant growth without the need for power consuming fans. It will use soil mulches and a row cover inside high tunnels to create more optimum soil and crop canopy temperatures by increasing absorption of solar radiation and reducing night time heat loss without using power consuming heaters. The project will also establish and incorporate winter and summer Cover Crops in high tunnels to improve soil quality and increase biologically-fixed nitrogen reducing the Energy required to produce and transport organic or conventional fertilizer. It will also demonstrate the benefits of Energy conserving practices in high tunnel production to promote adoption of these sustainable methods through on-farm demonstrations, field days, workshop presentations and Extension fact-sheets.
Cascade Conservation District
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MT
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2012
The goal of the project is to demonstrate the viability of an appropriately scaled, reliable, cost effective, and visually acceptable wind turbine. This will fill a largely vacant mid-size niche in the turbine market. This project is intended to demonstrate that an innovative, silo-shaped, reliable, and easily-maintained 100kW wind turbine, the Zilo, can be installed, owned and operated on site while decreasing long-term costs, displacing the use of fossil fuels, blending into the landscape and giving operators a significant degree of control over their Energy futures.
Wy'East Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc
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OR
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2012
The project results will detail the best practices for irrigation pumps with an existing variable speed drive (VSD) and future VSD systems. Actual Energy savings, water savings and emissions reductions will be reported for each of the three years. Practical control algorithms will be provided based on Energy conservation, watering uniformity and simplicity of operation. The data collected and criteria’s established will be transferable to all irrigation pumping systems that utilize VSDs. The project is innovative because it builds on an Energy savings device that is currently being used and takes the technology to the next level resulting in additional Energy conservation. The focus is on Energy efficiency, reduced water consumption and meeting the producer’s needs.
The Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2012
This project proposes to establish on-farm winter cover crop interseeding demonstration trials across the Chesapeake Bay watershed and document performance of the three-way interseeder. The project will also demonstrate the nutrient management benefits of coupling cover crop interseeding strategies with an online nutrient management tool (Adapt-N) and create case studies of farmers It will also develop region-specific cover crop interseeding recommendations for the Chesapeake Bay watershed and provide this information to producers through innovative content delivery.
University Of Delaware
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DE
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2012
The overall goal of the project is to help broiler producers adopt viable, practical, economical and effective strategies to improve their environmental performance, meet applicable federal and state requirements on air and water quality and to achieve strong, sustainable productive and profitable broiler producing operations. Demonstration sites will be broiler producers in Arkansas, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
The University of Tennessee
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TN
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2012
This project will demonstrate the affordability, effectiveness, and usability of a hydronic heating system for broiler production houses and utilize readily available biofuel and byproducts as a heating fuel. It also will demonstrate and verify the environmental impact of the heating system and transfer the knowledge gained from the demonstration project.
Trout Unlimited
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WA
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2012
This project builds on the investments of NRCS and other funders in irrigation efficiency through the development of the Methow Basin Water Exchange Cooperative Project (WEC), an innovative approach to enhance instream flows in the Methow River and its two largest tributaries. This will be done while facilitating a formalized water exchange to other agricultural water users. The WEC, inspired by the agricultural governance structures of exchanges and farmer cooperatives, will be supported by participation of local stakeholders including agriculture producers, water users and others providing oversight over integrated Habitat and water planning documents. It will ensure the protection of instream flows, sharing of information and identification agricultural water needs such that water transfers to other users would ensure benefits to both fish and farms.
The Regents of the University of California
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CA
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2012
The goals of this project are to demonstrate soil quality improving practices, extend quantitative information on the impacts of different soil management practices that aim to optimize resource use efficiency, increase understanding of the extent to which these practices may improve soil quality, and create greater awareness of the importance of soil quality that will eventually lead to increased adoption of improved precision tillage and cover crop practices. Adoption of these techniques would result in cheaper crop production systems, increased carbon in the soil, reduced fertilizer use and nitrogen losses, and reduced dust.
West Virginia University Research Corporation
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WV
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2012
The project purpose is to demonstrate the integration of Cover Crops to high tunnel production systems. The additive effects of high tunnels and Cover Crops will be demonstrated to beginning, limited resource high tunnel producers. Cover Crops will be shown to facilitate rotations, as well as improving soil health, reducing soil moisture evaporation, fertilizer application, secondary tillage and weed emergence.
The Regents of the University of California
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CA
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2012
This project proposes to provide a stable, cost-effective and sustainable supplement to honeybee pollination through the establishment of new Habitats that will conserve and protect California’s native bees. The project will also educate Californians about native bees and their critical importance to agriculture.