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Updates to the VEB Program

Updates to the VEB Program. Jim Passwaters The “Tree Guy”. NRCS Standards. Standards state VEB’s should be 50 ft plus 5 additional feet for each additional fan. This eliminates many farms from having cost-share due to distances to roads, ditches, cropland

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Updates to the VEB Program

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  1. Updates to the VEB Program Jim Passwaters The “Tree Guy”

  2. NRCS Standards • Standards state VEB’s should be 50 ft plus 5 additional feet for each additional fan. • This eliminates many farms from having cost-share due to distances to roads, ditches, cropland • Three years worth of research is required to change the standards • Research needs to be completed by a “scientist” and published. • Working with Shawn Belt , USDA Horticulturalist to accomplish this task.

  3. Farms that we are using to change the standards

  4. Trying New Species • Same procedures, three years research by a scientist and published in a scientific journal. • No money for the plants • Research is funded in part by United Soybean Council since we don’t need to obey the rules established by NRCS

  5. Arizona Cypress

  6. Southern Magnolia

  7. Photinia

  8. New Varieties of Hybrid Willows

  9. Arundodonax

  10. Hardy Sugarcane

  11. River Cane

  12. Grasses

  13. Research • one product which is now in great demand is willow for poultry bedding. For this purpose, the willow is processed to produce a fluffy bedding, which the hens prefer and is especially in demand for broiler houses. • An important bonus is that the salicylic acid in willow attacks ammonia, thereby improving the environment of poultry houses.

  14. Smoke Tests with Bud Malone

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