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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Great progressive thinking Frank</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It makes good wildlife and
environmental sense to allow CRP landowners to harvest 1/4 to 1/3 of
their "Native grass & Forb" CRP for energy while improving habitat for
wildlife while also conserving the soil - -win/win &win - -I could
even support no CRP penalty for harvesting a third of their CRP for
energy as long as the landowner uses wildlife friendly tallgrass prairie
cover (this could be an Incentive to rid the landscape of fescue or keep
existing contracts from pulling out of the program and farmed
again).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>George - Missouri Native Seed</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=foberle@nemr.net href="mailto:foberle@nemr.net">Frank Oberle</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=RRoeslein@ROESLEIN.com
href="mailto:RRoeslein@ROESLEIN.com">Rudi Roeslein</A> ; <A
title=davitleahy@earthlink.net href="mailto:davitleahy@earthlink.net">Carol
Davit</A> ; <A title=carpenter@mysticplains.org
href="mailto:carpenter@mysticplains.org">Kevin Carpenter</A> ; <A
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; <A title=Bill.Bergh@mdc.mo.gov href="mailto:Bill.Bergh@mdc.mo.gov">Bill
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href="mailto:jerry.kaiser@mo.usda.gov">Jerry Kaiser</A> ; <A
title=ken.struemph@dnr.mo.gov href="mailto:ken.struemph@dnr.mo.gov">Ken
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:59
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Fw: biomass</DIV>
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size=6>the popularity of the USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program has
soared, with the number of qualifying facilities now exceeding
280</FONT></A><FONT size=6>. The Biomass Crop Assistance Program assists
agricultural and forest land owners and operators with matching payments for
the amount paid for the collection, harvest, storage and transportation of
eligible material by a qualified Biomass Conversion
Facility.</FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>Conservationist,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> I
believe the time has come here in Missouri to begin a very strategic
plan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>on how we can become not only serious players in
the biomass industry, but how can</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>we improve wildlife habitat at the same time. I
will emphatically state there is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>known scientific evidence that will validate this
claim--especially all CRP lands that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>currently--and maybe futuristically--are enrolled
in a plant material--like fescue and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>brome--that has very little
environmental benefits. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> In order to move an idea
forward there has to be action. And there is no action</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>until there is movement. My passion and cause for
our state is to add wildlife,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>environmental and green energy benefits for
Northern Missouri. How do we add</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>value to an economically depressed area? Firstly,
like a Doctor's oath of promise </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>for receiving his degree: "Never to do
Harm." We need to emulate nature's blueprint</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>and follow a path of least resistance. It is
always more difficult to bend mother</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>nature to our wants, than it is to assimilate to
an ideology</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=5>that heeds to
bending</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>with her.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> One known truth
evident here in N. Missouri is that we can grow native grass
and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>broadleaf legumes. Cellulosic's greatest asset is
that indigenous plant material suited to the soil and climate adds to the
success of the project. We have the potential of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>rebuilding CRP with an ecologically sound plant
material that will boost biodiversity </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>and reviving rural economies. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> Please do not take my
word for any of this, use the science at hand. There</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>are entrepreneurs willing and hoping for such an
opportunity. Does anyone </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>out there have any suggestions on where or how to
begin this endeavor? We have </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>nearly 1.5 million acres of CRP here in
Missouri. One plan could be that once</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>the re-established CRP acres of any single tract
of ground was deemed ready</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>to be engaged into a regime of
biomass/wildlife management rotation, one forth to one</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>third of the tract would be allowed to be
harvested in the months of October</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>through January. There would be no
rental penalty for the landowner to pay if the plant material was used in
some biomass project. The next designated portion to be</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>harvested--rather it be one third to one
forth--would be eligible for a late spring burn </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>to encourage both forb growth and grass
development. When there is plenty of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>thatch build-up, there are less forbs that will
have vigorous growth. We have</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>experienced this fact in our production fields.
It works like this. Plants store starches</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>and sugars in their roots systems. In early
spring, if there is a canopy of thatch which</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>creates enormous shade, when the emerging plant
sends it first two basal leaves </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>for light scouting, perennial and long lived
native plants will not take the risk of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>expending large amounts of root reserves to
overtake the canopy--just too risky. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> There are many possibilities
that could be worked out. Currently, though, I believe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>we could be passing on a great opportunity to
rebuild our landscape to a vegetation that is suited to attract and
sustain our rare and declining wildlife, but too, the biomass
entrepreneurs. It also would be good for pollinators, producers and
weaning our</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>nation's dependency on imported fossil fuels. I'm
not saying the above is the perfect set of blueprints for a run away success
story, however, I can say with wisdom and discernment that CRP could use
a make-over that gives the customer--our hard working American
taxpayers--real dividends for their investment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5> In the beginning of the
Conservation Reserve Program, the goals of preventing soil erosion and
cleaning up our streams was an industrious and very
successful </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>conservation accomplishment. We have progressed
immensely in the field of understanding and implementing native plant
communities and the adverse affects of toxic and invasive fescue. The research
going on at NRCS's Plant Material Center and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=5>MU's Bradford Farm will yield much to the
enhancement of a myriad of wildlife and biomass concerns. Thanks to all those
partners supporting these exigencies. fo</FONT></DIV>
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