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 881 - 890 of 1760 projects
University of Arkansas
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AR
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2011
The goal of this project is to improve the Mississippi River basin environment by providing an education and technology assistance program to farmers and their advisors that encourages expanded adoption of spatial technology and use of zone management with site specific applications of P and K fertilizers and use of controlled release N fertilizers.
University of Tennessee
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TN
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2011
This project will provide a comprehensive demonstration and education program for producers and improve understanding of the use of NWSG and prescribed fire on eastern grazing lands. The project will improve the understanding of interactive fire and grazing on grassland wildlife Habitat and populations in the eastern US. It will also improve the information and technical guidance to producers and leaders within the agricultural community.
University of Tennessee
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TN
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2011
This project will demonstrate to producers and other interested groups the procedures and benefits of utilizing these innovative precision technologies: optical sensing and variable-rate application, to manage spatial variability within individual fields of cotton. The goal of this project is to encourage producers’ adoption of these new precision N management technologies and systems on their farms to reduce N fertilizer consumption and potential N losses, improve cotton productivity, and thus improve water quality and grower profitability in the Mississippi River Basin.
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc
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CA, OH
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2011
This CIG funding request will enable project collaborators to test key technical, regulatory and economic components of the program by completing pilot interstate trades between farmers and industrial point sources. These will come from direct interactions with more than 150 farmers. It is anticipated that these WQT credits will come from new conservation practices on up to 20,000 acres yielding reductions of up to 45,000 lbs of total nitrogen and 15,000 lbs annually entering the Ohio River3. This CIG funding will leverage substantial USEPA and industry funding already committed to developing this market, and will provide the real-life learning necessary for states to approve a regional Water Quality Trading that would span across the Ohio River Basin. This would expand opportunities for agriculture and point sources to collectively achieve nutrient reduction targets in a cost-effective manner.
The Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2011
The project aims to build and operate a stackable material digester to produce biogas from manure produced by the animal operations at The Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences. Use the biogas produced to fuel a combined heat and power unit to feed electricity into the electric grid and to heat buildings in close proximity to the CHP. Add other digestible waste streams to the feedstock as appropriate. Supplement digester feedstocks with biomass field crops as appropriate to increase gas production and return on investment. Provide digestate (digested material from the digester) to local EQIP eligible farmers. Record accurate costs of construction and operation of the dry digester to allow farmers to realistically consider this type of equipment for their agricultural operation. Provide educational opportunities for agricultural producers, suppliers, educators, and other clientele to view and discuss this type of anaerobic digester.
The Pennsylvania State University
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PA
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2011
This project will target traditionally underserved communities throughout PA with a major emphasis on farm operations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This includes new and beginning farmers and managers of small livestock and equine operations, which historically have very low participation in USDA conservation programs with a research base of 70% of PA woman managing horse operations. PA Equine operations, which were previously unregulated, now fall under nutrient management regulations with increased attention to nutrient and sediment loss within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. New farmers and managers of small farms and equine operations need awareness of government programs and sources of assistance.
The Freshwater Trust
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OR
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2011
Over the past several years and in part through previous investment from NRCS, project partners The Freshwater Trust (TFT) and Willamette Partnership have developed the fundamental elements of a working market, including transferable, NRCS and agency-recognized rules, tools, metrics and protocols. This project will enable partners to assemble elements into a complete, scalable and replicable package that can be rapidly applied and implemented in watersheds across the Pacific Northwest. Within the project period, the completed framework will be applied on-the-ground in two to three Oregon watersheds, generating millions in non-federal funds for producers voluntarily restoring riparian areas and demonstrating markets’ role in making conservation a profitable component of productive farms, forests, and ranches.
Ecotrust
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OR
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2011
This projects aims to create a decision support platform that is designed to allow forest producers to visualize, plan, and market their products and services and manage for multiple objectives such as carbon, Habitat, tax credits, and timber. It will allow producers to input different pricing information and then generate financial information describing how the producers’ revenues could change over time under different pricing scenarios. Producers will be able to access the tool online and either upload specific stand-level inventory data from their land or enter species, age class, and harvest information specific to their property. An interactive interface will allow producers to adjust input data and change management scenarios to see how this affects the productivity of timber and ecosystem services and how it impacts their annual revenue.
Northwest Natural Resource Group
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WA
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2011
The primary beneficiaries of this project will be small tree farmers across the nation. This project will also assist other small landowner groups looking to measure and value their environmental services contributions in a more cost effective, accurate, and efficient manner. While carbon markets have had significant attention in recent year and much work has been done to measure and monetize the sequestration on forestlands, smaller growers (less than 1,000 acres) still have no real way to participate in these emerging markets and few incentives for adapting their management to sequester more carbon (existing aggregation protocols and current carbon prices represent too much risk for little return for smaller projects). This project is designed to address that need by developing scientifically rigorous protocols for the monitoring of a variety of environmental services specifically for small and aggregated landowners. This will lead to increased access to carbon markets and other environmental services market and incentives programs and provide new decision making tools for both foresters and landowners to determine which variables to measure and at what scale and if measurement will be cost effective.
The Texas High Plains Initiative for Strategic and Innovative Irrigation Management and Conservation
North Plains Groundwater Conservation District
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TX
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2011
The purpose of this initiative is to demonstrate strategic irrigation and crop system management technologies and practices which will result not only in water savings across the region but also best practices that are applicable nationwide to regions facing similar resource concerns. The primary objective is to quantify water savings that can be realized from strategic irrigation management.