Two Conservation Easement Purchases Completed On Northumberland County Farms SUNBURY (Northumberland Co.) The Northumberland County Agricultural Land Pres ervation Board (NCALPB) took the final step in purchasing agri cultural conservation easements on two farms. David Unger of Rush Town ship, NCALP board chairman, announced that the closings were held in the office of Attor ney Charles Saylor, Sunbury, for easements on the Patsy Truck enmiller farm and the Dale and Jo Ann Lose farm, both in Dela ware Township, Northumber land County. The NCALPB was able to Emerging Alternatives To Land Application Of Manure Will There Be Enough GEORGETOWN, Del. The Delmarva Peninsula might not have enough poultry manure to meet demand for sev eral projects that offer alterna tives to land application of manure. That possibility was raised recently during a Balti more area research symposium. Bill Satterfield, executive di rector of Delmarva Poultry In dustry, Inc., (DPI), the trade association for the broiler chicken industry on the Del marva Peninsula (Delaware, Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Eastern Shore of Virginia) de scribed several projects that are under way or being planned. He questioned whether there would be enough manure for these projects and manure’s continua tion as a fertilizer source for hundred of farmers. It is esti mated that chickens on the Del marva Peninsula produce approximately 600,000 to 800,000 tons of manure annu ally. On the Delmarva Peninsula, at least four projects are under way or being considered. Perdue Farms Inc. and Agrißecycle, Inc. have formed a partnership to construct a manure-to-pellet plant in Sussex County, Del. This facility will produce pellets that can be ex ported and used by Midwest farmers who grow corn fed to Delmarva’s chickens. This facil ity is expected to use 80,000 tons of manure annually, or about 13 percent of the broiler chicken manure produced on Delmarva each year. Allen Family Foods, Inc. is planning to operate a gasifica tion co-generation plant at its Hurlock, Md. chicken process ing plant. Power not used by the pro ssing plant will be sold to elec icity purchasers. This fa cility will use about 40,000 tons per year, or about 6.5 percent of Lancaster Farming ✓Check Out Our Web site www.lancasterfarming.com purchase the easement through funds provided by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Farmland Preserva tion. As a result, these landown ers have preserved their valuable farmland for agricul tural production for perpetuity. The Truckenmiller and Lose farms are the seventh and eighth farms to be preserved in Northumberland County. The Truckenmiller farm consists of 141.44-acres, and the Lose farm is 164.27-acres, bringing the total amount of farmland pre served in Northumberland County more than 988-acres. All eight Northumberland County To Go Around? the local chicken manure. Eastern Shore Forest Prod ucts, Inc. of Salisbury, Md. is de veloping a total litter management system that in cludes shipping manure off of Delmarva, burning manure to generate energy for a company operated manure-to-fertilizer plant, and setting up one-to-10 megawatt power plants that will be located adjacent to poultry company facilities. These proj ects will use at least 85,000 tons of chicken manure annually, at least 13 percent of the locally produced manure. In addition, a British com pany called FibroShore is work ing to construct a large-scale manure-burning power plant on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Elec tricity would be sold to the high est bidder. This facility could use up to 350,000 tons of manure annually; approxi mately half of what is produced on Delmarva. Satterfield pointed out that because of advances in feeding programs and new corn varie ties, chickens may excrete less phosphorus in the years ahead, thus making more farmland available for manure utilization. Additionally, commercial prod ucts that bind phosphorus to the soil and the recently developed phosphorus index could expand the number of acres of farmland that can use manure in an envi ronmentally safe manner. Not included in the summary of alternative uses are smaller projects that use chicken manure compost and as growing media for flowers and nursery crops. Satterfield concluded by stat ing, “Wouldn’t it be ironic if Delraarva did not have enough manure to meet all these de mands after so many people were critical about the alleged oversupply of manure?” easements were purchased en tirely with state funds, for a total of $948,203.72 paid to landown ers and $47,701.45 in incidental costs associated with the pur chases. Northumberland County provides $5,000 annu ally for the NCALPB to admin ister the preservation program. The NCALPB is in the pro cess of purchasing easements on two more farms. Unger said, “We anticipate the other two farms will close early in 2001. We are also hoping the state will provide funds to be able to pur chase several more in 2001, fol lowing our next round of ranking.” Supplemental funds awarded by the state made it possible for the NCALP board to accomplish what they have in 2000. Unger said, “The farmland preserva tion program in Northumber land County continues to grow, and our board is quite optimistic about the future of the pro gram.” The purpose of the farmland preservation program is to save quality farmland. Many acres of farmland are taken out of pro duction in Pennsylvania on an annual basis as a result of resi dential and commercial devel opment. The holder of the conservation easement has the right to prevent development or other improvements to the land for purposes other than agricul tural production. Anyone interested in the farmland preservation program in Northumberland County may contact Carolyn Badman at (570) 568-1942 or Dennis DiOrio at (570) 286-7114, ext. 4. 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