Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing the availability of Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) funding to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies.
Donor Name: Natural Resources Conservation Service
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/27/2022
Grant Size: $150,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
CIG projects are expected to lead to the transfer of conservation technologies, management systems, and innovative approaches (such as market-based systems) to agricultural producers, into government technical manuals and guides, or to the private sector. CIG generally funds pilot projects, field demonstrations, and on-farm conservation research. On-farm conservation research is defined as an investigation conducted to answer a specific applied conservation question using a statistically valid design while employing farm-scale equipment on farms, ranches, or private forest lands.
Priorities
- Biomass and percent residue groundcover in wheel tracks and plant beds.
- Spring regrowth due to reduced residue load on plant beds.
- Fuel efficiency from driving on sugarcane residue instead of wet soil.
- Harvest quality in coring tests from reduced contamination by soil.
- Washing of harvested cane due to reduced soil contamination.
- Rate of clods of wet soil from tracks adhering to sugarcane plant beds.
- Increased residue to soil contact in the wheel tracks increases decomposition.
- Less wet soil clods adhering to harvester tracks or wheels.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
- Award Floor: $100,000
- Projects may be between one and three years in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Individuals
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
