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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Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition
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MN
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2011
This project seeks to promote control structures with grass buffers along ditches, rivers, and any water impoundment to reduce nutrient transport and improve water quality, from field surfaces and subsurface tiles. This demonstration project will retrofit existing buffers to develop criteria necessary for widespread adoption, as no such guidance currently exists. Finally, in addition to the traditional tools, the project will use non-conventional outreach methods that utilize farmer contact, such as farm forums.
New North Florida Cooperative Association, Inc.
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FL
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2011
The goal of the proposed project is to take an innovative and comprehensive approach to developing a long-term solution to ensure proven environmental technology and food security in the small-scale farm industry by linking underserved farmers with USDA/NRCS conservation programs and alternative market opportunities. The project is intended to enhance the sustainability and profitability of small-scale farm operations integrating conservation technology transfer and improved marketing strategies. The project is expected to improve the knowledge and skills of small-scale, limited resource farmers in incorporating conservation and production technologies, as well as alternative marketing strategies, into existing farm operations. The project will demonstrate technologies and strategies that can easily and relatively inexpensively be adopted by small-scale producers. The target audience for the project is beginning, limited resource and socially disadvantaged farmers in north Florida. The project integrates proven conservation technologies, such as plasticulture and subsurface irrigation, and farm business and market development.
The American Chestnut Foundation
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NC
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2011
This project will use a questionnaire to capture feedback from collaborators and landowners who participate in workshops and plantings to ensure they are applicable and useful. Volunteers will measure the percentage of surviving trees and the degree of uniformity in their growth rate and input this data into the Trees Database. Volunteers will monitor active trees to determine if they have sufficient resistance and American type and input this data into the Trees Database.
quasar Energy group, LLC
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OH
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2011
By demonstrating and verifying the environmental effectiveness of ADPlusLLX, quasar can encourage adoption of an innovative nutrient management solution and replicate this activity across the region to significantly impact the watershed by; reducing downstream nutrient loads while maintaining agricultural productivity, and enhancing wildlife and ecosystem services.As with any innovative technology, a key challenge to adoption involves building credibility and reducing risk in order to gain market acceptance of the technology. The primary purpose and goal of the proposed project is to demonstrate and verify the environmental effectiveness, utility, affordability and usability of LLX in the field to promote technology transfer across the watershed and nationally.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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DC
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2011
This project will reduce excess land application of manure in four of the Chesapeake’s “phosphorus hot spots” by accelerating adoption of innovative manure-to-Energy technologies and the creation of marketable fertilizer products that generate farm income. The Initiative will close the knowledge gap regarding viable manure-to-Energy technologies, provide direct assistance to farmers and agricultural communities in identifying technologies that best meet their needs, and will facilitate grant funding and financing to design and implement four new manure-to-Energy projects that are cost effective both at producing Energy and reducing nutrient pollution to the Chesapeake Bay. The Initiative will be coordinated with state NRCS management teams and program specialists, investors, farmers, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions.
Washington State University
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WA
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2011
The proposed project will evaluate and demonstrate select proven (feed management; manure pH management; and manure removal management) BMPs for mitigating air emission from naturally ventilated free-stall barns. The outcome of this project is a suite of alternative BMPs that dairy operators could select from to meet their desired air emission mitigations from their respective operations: today and/or when (and if) the regulations come into effect.
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
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WI
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2011
This project will improve the efficiency of water and Energy use in the irrigation of vegetable crops in Central Wisconsin, develop mechanisms for monitoring groundwater depth, and improve nitrogen management and decrease leaching. This project addresses multiple NRCS CIG priorities including: Ecosystems Markets, Adapting Management for Conservation Effects, Energy, Nutrient Management, Priority Landscapes, Program Outreach and Technology Transfer, Sustainable and Organic Agriculture, and Specialty Crops.
Kunia Loa Ridge Farmlands, Inc
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HI
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2011
Project will present NRCS with an alternate method of producing integrated conservation plans for areas where there are numerous small farm plots. This will be accomplished through the production of a handbook in electronic format that NRCS will be able to review and modify if deemed necessary. This has the potential to reduce staff workloads and streamline the process for producers. This will also benefit local Conservation Districts that require approval of conservation plans by reducing their workloads. We will also be working with our local Conservation District, a project partner, to fine tune the process from their prospective. During the course of the project we will communicate and partner with the local conservation district on our annual training exercises. This will also be communicated through the local conservation district and to the media through press releases in an effort to reach producers who are not involved in the Coop.
Purdue University
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IN
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2011
The proposed project directly addresses three of the four Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) objectives by reducing nutrient loading and enhancing wildlife and other ecosystem services, while maintaining agricultural productivity in Indiana, one of the 12 states of consideration. The primary program area addressed is Water Management, through demonstration of treatment effectiveness and efficiency of nitrogen contaminants in runoff or drainage water using innovative practices. In addition, by leveraging other on-going efforts, the proposed project will address many other topics within the MRBI initiative, including:
Wildlife Habitat Improvement - Demonstration of new technique for monitoring fish Habitat
Vegetative Practices – Demonstration of the efficacy of reconnecting subsurface drainage to interflow for enhanced denitrification of shallow groundwater; Demonstration of how placement of appropriate perennial vegetation can bolster nutrient management;
Adaptive Management - Developing models to evaluate the effects of MRBI initiated systems of practices at watershed scales.
Program Outreach - Creating a MRBI demonstration and program outreach site.
Wildlife Habitat Improvement - Demonstration of new technique for monitoring fish Habitat
Vegetative Practices – Demonstration of the efficacy of reconnecting subsurface drainage to interflow for enhanced denitrification of shallow groundwater; Demonstration of how placement of appropriate perennial vegetation can bolster nutrient management;
Adaptive Management - Developing models to evaluate the effects of MRBI initiated systems of practices at watershed scales.
Program Outreach - Creating a MRBI demonstration and program outreach site.
Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts
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OK
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2011
This project aims to create Oklahomas first marketable wildlife credit and the framework for application of future wildlife credits to other species and regions of the state. OACD will collaborate with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, and NRCS to develop the concept of a wildlife credit as it applies to the Lesser Prairie Chicken (“LEPC”) Habitat within the project area. This will entail creating protocols for defining, quantifying, and qualifying the credit, developing a credit verification system, and measuring the project’s effect on Oklahoma’s LEPC Habitat and population. A successful crediting system will accurately account for the cost to landowners in implementing the required practices and the income sacrificed by forgoing the possibility of wind development. Through this process OACD and its partners will develop a Wildlife Credit Handbook. This tool will ensure that interested parties outside of OACD will also be capable of transferring the work resulting from this CIG to other regions of the state or the nation.