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Website helps design farm shelter beltsEQUIP signup deadline is Feb. 28 Missouri Livestock producers can learn how to receive financial and technical assistance for installing shelter belts or windbreaks for odor control and visual screening around their animal feeding operations and farmsteads by going to a new website, http://agebb.missouri.edu/commag/shelterbelt/. The site assists producers in applying for financial assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program offered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service as well as other NRCS and Missouri Department of Conservation cost-share programs. Deadline for submitting EQUIP application for the special windbreak and shelter belt signup period is Feb. 28. The website is a collaborative effort between NRCS, the University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture Program and MU Forestry Center, the Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Pork Association, Missouri Department of Agriculture and Missouri Farm Service Agency. Livestock producers can receive a wide range of information about the design, implementation and maintenance of using rows of trees, shrubs and grasses to create a visual screen and odor control mechanism customized to their facility needs, said Rex Ricketts, MU Commercial Agriculture Program director. Information includes cost-share opportunities through NRCS, MDC and FSA, examples of shelter belt plans, budget worksheets, guides to plant selection and sources for the purchase of plants, irrigation equipment , other needed components and state-wide service providers. B 7 2/26/07 2 Star EK Date: 2/22/07
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