USDA announces Conservation Innovation Grants
August 23, 2011 | 08:00 AM
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $22.5 million in innovative conservation technologies and approaches on Monday.
Vilsack said that the 52 grants will be carried out in 40 states, but that eight of them will support conservation innovations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and another eight will focus on the Mississippi River Basin.
The grants will address erosion prevention and demonstrate the effectiveness of new ways to reduce odors from poultry and livestock operations, reclaim mining lands, develop ecosystem markets and expand solar energy use on farms.
Grant winners pay 50 percent of project cost, USDA said in a news release.
Vilsack said that the 52 grants will be carried out in 40 states, but that eight of them will support conservation innovations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and another eight will focus on the Mississippi River Basin.
The grants will address erosion prevention and demonstrate the effectiveness of new ways to reduce odors from poultry and livestock operations, reclaim mining lands, develop ecosystem markets and expand solar energy use on farms.
Grant winners pay 50 percent of project cost, USDA said in a news release.
