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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Flint River Fresh
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GA
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2019
The goal of this project is to increase the success rate of urban farmers in Southwest Georgia by offering education on useful and scale-appropriate technology that reduces energy and resource costs in their operations. As such, Flint River Fresh will provide no fewer than 80 new and beginning urban farmers in Albany, Georgia with demonstrations of effective and affordable small-scale farming and post-harvest handling technology to improve water use, soil health, and post-harvest water efficiency on their operations and to assist them in overcoming the high capital costs of installing production and post-harvest infrastructure. Of these, 40 producers will receive direct training about food safety requirements under FSMA and learn simple steps to conserve water and prevent biological contamination of raw produce from pre- and post-harvest surface water applications. It is expected that no fewer than 50 percent of workshop trainees will be socially disadvantaged or limited-resource producers. An estimated 3000 producers interested in small-scale production will observe demonstrations of urban farming and post-harvest technology at the small-scale farming exhibit at the 2019 Sunbelt Ag Expo.
Hood River Soil and Water Conservation District
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OR
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2019
This project will pilot an approach to improve pollinator habitat along recently modernized irrigation pipeline corridors. Develop a streamlined protocol to evaluate, establish, and monitor pollinator habitat along irrigation infrastructure. Demonstrate cost-effective solutions to create and improve pollinator habitat and corridors that unite stakeholders through outreach and education.
Mad Agriculture
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CO
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2019
Mad Agriculture is leading a collaborative effort to develop Carbon Farm Planning as an NRCS
Conservation Activity Plan in Colorado. Carbon Farm Planning is a systems approach to whole farm
and ranch planning that optimizes the use of conservation practices to solve resource concerns, build
soil health, and enhance the ecological resilience and financial viability of agriculture. Carbon Farm
Planning was developed by the NRCS and Resource Conservation Districts in California in
collaboration with the Carbon Cycle Institute. Carbon Farm Planning has been very successful at
attracting producers to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), delivering more Farm
Bill dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve their operations. The goals of this project are:
1) Mad Agriculture staff lead the creation of two carbon farm plans for Colorado producers that
lease Boulder City and Boulder County lands. These Carbon Farm Plans will be designed to
optimize the implementation of NRCS conservation practices that maximize natural resource
conservation, and will be completed and submitted for EQIP funding as a Conservation Plan.
2) Create an open-source Carbon Farm Planning Training curriculum, Carbon Farm Outcomes
Scorecard, and a Toolkit to ‘training the trainers’ (NRCS, Conservation Districts and
Technical Service Providers) workshops and field days, which will be available on our digital
resource base ( www.coloradocarbonproject.org ) that represents our network of stakeholders.
3) Host a two-day Carbon Farm Planning training sessions for producers, Technical Service
Providers (TSPs), NRCS and conservation district staff in Colorado.
4) Lastly, the Carbon Farm Planning will be reviewed by NRCS staff to potentially codify the
framework as an eligible Conservation Activity Plan in Colorado.
Overall, there is rising demand for Carbon Farm Planning across the USA, and Colorado would be the
second state to adopt the CAP. Carbon Farm Planning will attract and deliver more EQIP funds to
CO farmers and ranchers, helping them solve resource concerns and increase our state’s reputation as a
leader in natural resource conservation.
Conservation Activity Plan in Colorado. Carbon Farm Planning is a systems approach to whole farm
and ranch planning that optimizes the use of conservation practices to solve resource concerns, build
soil health, and enhance the ecological resilience and financial viability of agriculture. Carbon Farm
Planning was developed by the NRCS and Resource Conservation Districts in California in
collaboration with the Carbon Cycle Institute. Carbon Farm Planning has been very successful at
attracting producers to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), delivering more Farm
Bill dollars to help farmers and ranchers improve their operations. The goals of this project are:
1) Mad Agriculture staff lead the creation of two carbon farm plans for Colorado producers that
lease Boulder City and Boulder County lands. These Carbon Farm Plans will be designed to
optimize the implementation of NRCS conservation practices that maximize natural resource
conservation, and will be completed and submitted for EQIP funding as a Conservation Plan.
2) Create an open-source Carbon Farm Planning Training curriculum, Carbon Farm Outcomes
Scorecard, and a Toolkit to ‘training the trainers’ (NRCS, Conservation Districts and
Technical Service Providers) workshops and field days, which will be available on our digital
resource base ( www.coloradocarbonproject.org ) that represents our network of stakeholders.
3) Host a two-day Carbon Farm Planning training sessions for producers, Technical Service
Providers (TSPs), NRCS and conservation district staff in Colorado.
4) Lastly, the Carbon Farm Planning will be reviewed by NRCS staff to potentially codify the
framework as an eligible Conservation Activity Plan in Colorado.
Overall, there is rising demand for Carbon Farm Planning across the USA, and Colorado would be the
second state to adopt the CAP. Carbon Farm Planning will attract and deliver more EQIP funds to
CO farmers and ranchers, helping them solve resource concerns and increase our state’s reputation as a
leader in natural resource conservation.
Oregon State University
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OR
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2019
This project expands the OregonFlora website to include 100 taxa from eastern Oregon and to generate the websites capacity for plant vendors to enter and maintain a list of native species in their inventory.
Smart Diagnostics Systems LLC
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MO
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2019
The agriculture production and farm market is in great need of soil health management systems (SHMS) that can identify pathogen contamination in real-time, and in multiple sources. Smart Diagnostics Systems is proposing to develop a diagnostic SHMS that will allow agriculture producers to rapidly detect pathogens in soil, water, and crops in order to sustain soil health, prevent pathogen contamination of any on-farm sources, and maximize yields, crop quality, and the economics of crop production. SDS will measure and quantify the impacts of proposed SHMS through the real-time aggregation of machine data. Upon the successful completion of the project, Smart Diagnostics Systems will have developed a SHMS to provide agriculture producers and farming companies with a state of the art diagnostic system to prevent and mitigate risk associated with soil health, while enhancing yield, crop quality, and overall economic success.
Stephen F. Austin State University
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TX
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2019
Timberland and pastureland often are managed as mutually exclusive land uses in the southern United States. Both have positive and negative economic and environmental attributes. Silvopasture is the combination of both systems on the same acreage, capturing the positive attributes of both systems. Timber is produced, generating substantial, infrequent, revenue, and providing soil health, wildlife, water quality and other environmental benefits, while producing forage for livestock or hay production, which generates annual revenue for the producer. Silvopasture has been extensively researched and tested in the southern US and found to provide greater benefits to the producer than either timber or forage production alone. No operational-scale demonstration area exists in Texas to inform producers of the benefits of adopting the proposed practices. This project will provide demonstration areas of silvopasture practices, with the incorporation of native grasses for forage production. The impact of this project will be in the form of providing a demonstration area for use in workshops, field days, and educational opportunities for producers, students and others in the Western Gulf region, which will aid in the transfer of agroforestry science and technologies to producers and encourage adapting the practices. Soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat will be enhanced, as well as substantial opportunities for research presented. Both Agency and Secretary's priorities will be addressed by this project in the form of demonstrating agroforestry science and technology to producers, land managers, students and other, as well as providing opportunities for research and conservation benefits.
Texas A&M AgriLife
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TX
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2019
The goals of this project are: 1) Demonstrate and quantify cover crop seeding rate impact on forage production, crop production, and soil health in no-till wheat and no-till cotton cropping systems; 2) Demonstrate seeding rate and seeding methods of cover/forage crops in integrated livestock-cropping systems on forage availability and soil health; 3) Provide education to stakeholders by disseminating information through field demonstrations, technical reports, and/or NRCS showcase events.
Texas A&M AgriLife
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TX
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2019
The objectives of this project are to: 1) Develop a control guidance algorithm that enables the Lagoon-Cleaner Robot to map-out an enclosed waterbody and provide efficient whole-lagoon treatment; 2) Conduct field tests of the vessel and water treatment systems, optimize vessel operation parameters under field conditions; 3) Investigate the effect of Lagoon-Cleaner Robot treatment on water quality parameters. Optimize electrolytic cell arrangement, navigation control, operation cycle and cruise velocity to maximize treatment efficiency.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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TX
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2019
This project will demonstrate and evaluate the impact(s) of implementing cover crops and crop rotations into corn production systems on: 1) soil health and function, 2) crop water use efficiency, 3) sustainability indicators according to the Fieldprint Calculator, and, 4) economic feasibility of the cropping systems. Additionally, we will evaluate the interactive effects of conservation management with irrigation system management.
Texas Tech University
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TX
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2019
This project aims to demonstrate an innovative brush control method that will inform adaptive grazing management decisions and improve soil health. After treating pastures with this method, the teamwill evaluate forage production increases, soil health effects, grazing management decisions during the entire duration of the project. These directly and easily quantifiable measures will be reported on a per-pasture basis.