Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA NRCS KS CIG 20 NOFO0001006
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) opportunity for Federal fiscal year 2020 in Kansas is a discretionary grant program designed to push new and practical conservation ideas from the drawing board into real-world agricultural use. The central aim is to encourage innovation that supports working lands agriculture while improving natural resource outcomes, meaning projects should fit alongside production agriculture rather than replace it. CIG is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of promising conservation approaches and technologies, especially those that can be shown to work under actual farm, ranch, or private forest conditions.
This Kansas-specific CIG competition emphasizes projects that do more than generate research findings; they are expected to result in technology and practice transfer. In other words, NRCS is looking for proposals that will move innovative conservation technologies, management systems, or approaches into the hands of agricultural producers, into NRCS technical references (such as manuals and guides used by conservation planners), or into the private sector where they can be scaled and sustained. The program commonly supports pilot projects, field demonstrations, and on-farm conservation research, with a strong preference for work that can be demonstrated, validated, and replicated beyond a single site or operation.
A notable element of this announcement is its definition of on-farm conservation research. Under this opportunity, on-farm research is not casual trial-and-error or a simple side-by-side comparison without rigor. It is described as an investigation intended to answer a specific applied conservation question using a statistically valid design, while using farm-scale equipment on farms, ranches, or private forest lands. That definition signals that proposals should be grounded in sound experimental design and measurable outcomes, while still being practical and relevant to real farm operations.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is identified as "NRCS' Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2020 - KANSAS" with funding opportunity number USDA NRCS KS CIG 20 NOFO0001006. The funding instrument is a grant, and the activity area is categorized under agriculture, environment, and natural resources. The assistance listing is under CFDA number 10.912 (the CIG program). The sponsoring agency is the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Funding is relatively modest and geared toward testing and demonstration rather than large-scale implementation. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $75,000, and NRCS anticipated making about six awards under this Kansas competition. That scale suggests a competitive process where proposals need to be tightly written, clearly innovative, and strongly focused on outcomes that can be adopted by producers or incorporated into broader conservation practice.
Key dates included a creation date of April 24, 2020. The source data also lists an original closing date of June 26, 2020, but the program description specifies that applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May 29, 2020. Because deadlines control eligibility, applicants would typically be expected to follow the stated application-receipt deadline in the description (and verify the controlling deadline in the official notice and Grants.gov posting). Overall, this opportunity is best understood as a Kansas-based funding chance for applied, field-ready conservation innovation that can be proven in practice and then shared widely for broader adoption.Apply for USDA NRCS KS CIG 20 NOFO0001006
- The Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service in the agriculture, environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NRCS' Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2020 - KANSAS" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.912.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 24, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 26, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $75,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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