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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Showing 111 - 120 of 1802 projects
American Farmland Trust
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MA
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2021
This project seeks to provide greater access to NRCS assistance programs to the Urban Agriculture (UA) producers in Massachusetts through providing direct training to four UA producers, who will in turn provide direct support and assistance to other UA producers in MA. Additionally, through relationship building, interviews, and opportunities for feedback, this project will develop UA specific resources to increase knowledge of NRCS application processes and protocols for the UA community and will develop recommendations for NRCS to increase UA involvement in TA/FA programs in Massachusetts.
Black Hawk SWCD
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IA
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2021
This project addresses innovation of an NRCS conservation practice standard within the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy of the Nitrogen Management Practice of annual cover cropping. A perennial cover crop is innovative and this project will advance the field of conservation because of the reduced management requirements compared to annual cover cropping, with multiple ecosystem benefits provided by the perennial cover.
Foodlink, Inc.
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NY
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2021
The goal of this project is to leverage an innovative waste management technology, aerobic digestion, to fundamentally shift how Foodlink – a food bank that also manages an urban farm – handles its organic waste while meeting the city of Rochester’s needs to reduce waste and access high-quality, food-grade compost. With support from the Conservation Innovation Grant program, Foodlink will purchase an aerobic digester, a commercial-strength chipper-shredder, and build an effective composting space at our Lexington Avenue Community Farm.
GSR Solutions, Inc.
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VT
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2021
The overall long-term goal of this project is to develop and implement a market-based innovative and sustainable farmer-friendly conservation practice that would allow dairy farmers to convert their unmanageable excessive manure nutrient load and carbon emissions into organic slow-release marketable soil fertility products for crop production, and second their application by crop producers would enable replacement of imported soil health products. EQUIP qualified Vermont based farms and growers along with farmer stakeholders will contribute to this project for evaluating high nutrient recovery potential, conducting field trials of organic slow-release products for warm and cold season crops, and market-based product quality. the main project deliverables and anticipated project results are as follows: 1) Quantify environmental and economic benefits for facilitating improved implementation of NRCS water quality measures by conducting nutrient recovery trials in the most environmentally sensitive watershed of Franklin County, VT, and projecting nutrient recovery benefits for 20 farms in Franklin as well as Grand Isle counties for replicating the process to other counties in Vermont in the future; 2) Quantify soil-health benefits as well as carbon sequestration from nutrient recovery process through field trials of the new organic soil amendments produced from the innovative conservation practice by using the established methods developed by University Extension programs; 3) Deliver the new conservation practice and information about the marketability of the soil fertility products to farmers and stakeholders through field days, workshops, webinars, publications, and other outreach activities.
Maine Farmland Trust
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ME
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2021
This project shares soil health data and practices to increase farm viability and climate resilience.
Native Ecosystem Services LLC
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HI
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2021
This project will test the efficacy of a native hydroseed and a non-native grass product to stop erosion on Hawaii's rangelands using field trials. Plots will determine if hydroseeding with native and non-native grass seeds will germinate, dominate weeds, reduce erosion, change soil content or respiration, what weed incursions occur, species work best, seed treatments are necessary, if planting method can be successful without irrigation, and what additives will help with germination.
Northern Tilth
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CT
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2021
This project will involve working with six farms in Connecticut that have existing on-farm composting operations in order to minimize environmental impacts of the compost operations and maximize the quality of the finished compost. All of the farms included in this project have worked with the CT NRCS in the past, some of them have received cost-share funding from the NRCS for compost-related practices. The goal of the project is to develop a Compost Optimization Practice that would provide technical support to NRCS client-farms in order to improve the nutrient management and water quality benefits associated with composting manure and other organic matter-based by-products.
NYC Department of Sanitation
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NY
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2021
DSNY’s NYC Compost Project, working with Cornell University researchers, will study the quality of compost produced onsite at 10 community gardens and urban farms in NYC, compiling baseline data on the compost quality to determine technical assistance needed to produce higher quality compost for NYC urban growers.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2021
Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) proposes to employ a novel, innovative approach to address the lack of fence and economic incentives that support grazing. Expanding on our success with 10 established PFI-administered cost-share programs, we will pilot a new cost-share program to pay for grazing infrastructure, specifically mobile, temporary fence and watering systems, with the objective to increase adoption of regenerative grazing in Iowa.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
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IA
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2021
This project will evaluate and quantify the ability of soil health management systems to improve economic and environmental performance of farms across Iowa. We will help farmers assess N fertilizer rates to corn in fields they have committed to soil health management systems. Ultimately, we hope farmers who have made a long-term investment to soil health will gain confidence to practice fertilizer reductions while maintaining crop yields.