WSU gets 1.5 million in CIG grants

WSU gets 1.5 million in CIG grants

Washington Ag Today August 18, 2010 The USDA recently announced that 1.5 million dollars in funding through national Conservation Innovation Grants has been awarded to Washington State University. Natural Resources Conservation Service assistant state conservationist Dave Brown says the funding is for three projects.

Brown: “We had one regarding anaerobic digestion. Another on feed management strategies and then a third one dealing with dairy and anaerobic digesting.”

Brown says the Conservation Innovation Grants are part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program where the funds are used to demonstrate new and innovative conservation technology.

Brown: “And then our hope is that we can take that new technology at the end of their demonstration period, we can start offering the financial incentives through EQIP to help our producers here in Washington adopt that technology and use it to solve our resource issues here in the state.”

Grant recipients provide matching funds for the projects.

Brown says there is a state level program for Conservation Innovation Grants too and an announcement on who the latest recipients of those will be could come in the next week.

Washington’s winter wheat harvest had past the half-way mark at the start of this week at 52 percent complete. But the Ag Statistics Service says that’s well behind the five year average for now of 74 percent complete.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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