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CTIC Initiatives

CTIC and its partners lead initiatives at the local, regional and national level to address agriculture’s pressing conservation needs. Each initiative includes public and private sector partners, shares information about new technology and tools and promotes agricultural systems that are both economically viable and environmentally beneficial.
 

Aquatic Resource Monitoring Technical Training Workshops

In 2010, CTIC received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund the "Aquatic Resource Monitoring Technical Training Workshops for States, Tribes and Other Stakeholders"...More

Building Innovative Industry- Producer Partnerships to Reduce Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico

In 2006, CTIC received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency Gulf of Mexico Program to fund "Building Innovative Industry-Producer Partnerships to Reduce Hypoxia...More

Conservation Agriculture Systems Alliance (CASA)

CASA is a North American alliance of producer organizations united with a common goal to advance conservation agriculture systems. CASA strengthens the individual efforts of each member...More

Cover Crops and Conservation Tillage Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution

This project, funded by EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, will demonstrate the effectiveness of cover crops and conservation tillage systems to decrease agricultural nonpoint...More

Crop Residue Management Survey

The National Crop Residue Management Survey is a valuable tool that can be used to measure adoption of important soil-saving practices, demonstrate energy cost savings and monitor efforts...More

Customized Training on Water Quality Trading for Agriculture and Wastewater Facilities

Water quality credit trading may be, in many areas, a successful market-based approach to improve water quality. It is an innovative, voluntary tool that connects industrial and municipal...More

Drainage Water Management in Conservation Agriculture Systems

ADMC received a Conservation Innovation Grant in 2006 to promote and characterize the unique technology of drainage water management (DWM) – the practice of managing water table...More

Facilitating Conservation Farming Practices and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability with Agricultural Biotechnology

CTIC, with funding provided by the United Soybean Board, updated its 2003 publication on conservation tillage and biotechnology. CTIC's new publication, Facilitating Conservation...More

Indian Creek Watershed Project

CTIC, with partners, will demonstrate and implement water quality conservation practices in the Indian Creek watershed. Illinois EPA and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service...More

Know Your Watershed

Know Your Watershed is a coordinated national effort to encourage the formation of local, voluntary watershed partnerships and help assure that these partnerships successfully attain...More

Market Feasibility Assessment: Wabash River Basin Water Quality Trading

Gulf of Mexico hypoxia issues pose a significant challenge in addressing the protection of the marine environment given...More

Promoting Collaborative, Innovative Livestock Waste Management Technology for Water Quality Improvement

Today there are thousands of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) nationally that require an National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. Producers and their...More

Take CTIC's New Surveys on Cropping Decisions

Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation want to learn more about producer cropping decisions. We invite producers to spend a More

Upstream Heroes

CTIC's Upstream Heroes campaign features success stories about farmers who have developed and adopted sound nutrient efficiency strategies - protecting their bottom lines as well as...More

Using Cover Crops to Facilitate the Transition to Continuous No-Till

 This project, funded by a 2008 Conservation Innovation Grant, promotes the use of cover crops to ease farmers’ transition to use of continuous no-till. Continuous no-till...More

Wabash River Basin Water Quality Trading Feasibility Study

In 2009, CTIC received federal funding to study the feasibility of a water quality credit trading program in the Wabash River basin.

Water quality credit trading may...More

Watershed Networking Sessions and Workshops

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) and Conservation Information Technology Center (CTIC) partnered to provide information to watershed professionals throughout the...More