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Impact Report
| For plan | Brush and Weed Control Education Program (Union County) |
| Date | September 26, 2008, 3:41 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Five workshop/demonstration projects were presented with approximately 30% of the affected producers participating. Of the participants, 75% adopted a brush control program of some sort depending on their particular problems. 25% of these have completed an active brush control project with 10% completeing a long term plan for brush control. In the area of salt cedar control, 100% of participante have completed chemical application with 20% of participants involved in the NRCS EQIP program and 80% participation is solely producer financed. Loco weed participation was slight with the onset of a drought and the appearance of the striped loco bug. However, 90% of the involved producers practiced stringent monotoring and kept preperations in place for control. 75% of producers were given the opportunity to participate in workshops and up-date meetings concerning loco weed. 100% of these participants indicated that they would up-date their long range plans to include new ideas. The county emergency agriculture plan incorporated weed invasions into the overall county emergency plan which allows all producers to recieve emergency help in the case that implementation is needed. |