VOL. 35, NO. 1 March 2017

Published by Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. � Georgetown, Delaware

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

� Be Mindful of Electrical Safetyon Your Farm / 2

� Energy Savings ProgramAvailable for DelawareChicken Growers / 4

� Solar Sites Can BenefitAgriculture / 5

� Controlling Costs,Capturing Benefits / 5

� Avian Influenza Detected inTennessee, Alabama / 6 & 8

� Expect Early Growthin Planted Buffers / 10

� Legislative Actions KeepDPI Busy / 11, 12 & 17

� Maryland AgricultureLaw Education InitiativeRevamps Website / 19

Solar is Focus of On-the-RoadGrower Committee Meeting

By Bill Satterfield

Our February Grower Committee meeting, sponsored by Sunrise Solar,was a success, with 50 persons in attendance to learn about solarenergy and hear of some of the new solar developments.

Sales manager Kendrick Tice spoke for about an hour and tookquestions, explaining the various types of solar systems available tochicken growers, such as community and accessory. He reviewed thebenefits to chicken growers of aggregated metering, the various taxincentives of using solar, and the types of grants available to encouragesolar installation.

It was an informative program that seemed quite valuable to a number ofour guests who remained after the meeting to ask questions.If you wish to get more involved with DPI through the GrowerCommittee, we welcome your participation. It is a good way to learnsome tips to help improve your profitability, learn of new ways to raisechickens, and to enjoy the fellowship of other growers. There is no costand no long-term commitment, and you’ll get a free chicken dinner ateach meeting. Give me a call if you are interested at 302-856-9037.

Sunrise Solar Sales ManagerKendrick Tice spoke about solarenergy at the February DPI GrowerCommittee on-the-road meetingnear Salisbury.

About 50 guests enjoyed adelicious fried chicken dinnerat the start of the meeting.

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Be Mindful of Electrical Safety on Your FarmBy Jenny Rhodes

University of Maryland Extension EducatorAll electrical systems have the potential to causeharm. The voltage of the electricity and theavailable electrical current in our homes or in ourfarm buildings has enough power to cause deathby electrocution.

Even changing a light bulb can be hazardousbecause coming in contact with the “hot” or “live”part of the socket could kill a person.

A very special person’s life was taken on April 14,2016 by electrocution in his poultry house. BillBrown was a true leader in our agriculturalcommunity and a wonderful friend. He was anastonishing poultry Extension agent, he loved hisfamily, his job, his faith and his friends. I enjoyedteaching poultry Extension programs with him. Billwas passionate about everything he did.

He would always stop what he was doing to helpanyone, whether that person was a farmer, aneighbor or someone in his community. I will missthe phone calls and the long conversations aboutchickens and our industry. Our hearts are veryheavy, but we all know that Bill would want to makesure we all learn from this tragedy. That is why Iam writing this article and fact sheets and hostingeducational programs on farm electrical safety.

We are all very busy on our farms and with life ingeneral. Please take time to walk around yourpoultry houses.

Inspect all electrical cords for: • Cracks, chafed areas, breaks• Wire cover pulled from plug• Plug pulled from casing and insulation• No electrical cords should touch the ground• No electrical cords should be wrapped aroundanything

• Make sure they are all free hanging and won’tget caught in anything

• Place cords on string pulleys so they willraise your equipment if raised

• Check unused equipment; is it unplugged?• Are there covers on all electrical boxes?

• Is the breaker panel free of dust, enclosed, anddoor shut?

• Never use an extension cord to run permanentequipment

When doing any electrical repair, always be sure towear protective clothing, have the proper tools andequipment for the electrical needs.

When inspecting or repairing anything electrical,the following are a must:• Turn off breakers• Use a Voltage Sensing Pin to test to make surethere is no live current. A local electricianrecommends the Fluke 1LAC II A VoltAlert™Electrical Tester or the Klein Tools NCVT-2Dual Range Voltage Tester.

• Wear rubber boots to insulate your feet.• Wear leather gloves.

The cost of the Voltage Sensing Pins ranges from$18 to $25. Check the electrical ground on yourpoultry houses.

Always check after someone other than yourselfhas been working in your chicken houses. For example: after crusting or windrowing,chickens have been caught, chick delivery,complete litter clean out, etc.

Have you taken a look in your generator buildinglately? Check your battery charger, breakers anddust in your panel boxes.

This is just the beginning of a few things you cando to protect yourself.

The University of Delaware Cooperative Extensionand the University of Maryland Extension will behosting an educational electrical safety meeting inmid-May at the University of Delaware Elbert N.and Ann V. Carvel Research and Education Centernear Georgetown.

We will be developing several electrical factssheets on what should be inspected after eachflock, yearly, and every five years.

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Energy Savings Program Availablefor Delaware Chicken Growers

A program developed by the DelawareSustainable Energy Utility and EnSave to savechicken growers and other farmers money onenergy consumption has been unveiled. TheEnergize Delaware Farm Program offers loansup to $400,000 and grants up to $100,000 perfarm for qualified applicants.

The program provides:• Energy audits provided by EnSave, Inc.• Preliminary renewable energy

assessments• Cash incentives for qualifying equipment• Project installation support• Low-interest loans• Support accessing additional financial

assistance

Possible on-farm installations include:• Energy efficient lighting• Motors and motor controls• Chicken house insulation• Sprinklers, nozzles, and regulators

A farm first must have an energy audit toqualify for the incentives to install energysaving equipment or products. Audits areprovided through the program at a reducedrate. The program covers the majority of theaudit cost; however, each farmer isresponsible for 25 percent of the audit cost or$475. If you have had an energy audit in thelast five years, that might qualify. Check withEnSave to learn if the old audit qualifies.

Projects will need to be completed and verifiedprior to the program’s closure, which will be nolater than July 1, 2019. Money is available ona first-come, first-served basis.

You’ll need to call EnSave to visit yourproperty and provide 12 months of energy use

data from your electric company or other fuelproviders. Additionally, you’ll need toparticipate in an initial interview with EnSave.An EnSave energy analyst then will walkaround your farm and take notes.

Any equipment recommended in the energyaudit is eligible for funding. The program offersgrants up to 30 percent of the total project costwith a minimum of $3,000 and a maximum of$100,000. The program also offers lowinterest loans up to $400,000 for renewableenergy projects.

The program allows participating farmers toapply for other funding, such as the NaturalResources Conservation Service’sEnvironmental Quality Incentives Program(EQIP) and the Rural Development agency’sRural Energy for America Program (REAP).

A simple one-page application form can getyou started. For more information, contactEnSave at 800-732-1399.

Solar Sites Can Benefit AgricultureDr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp

Department of Entomology, University of MarylandJustified or not, farmers and agricultural supplycompanies have taken much of the blame forthe rapid decline in populations of bees andother beneficial insects that pollinate crops.And now, thanks to favorable economics,consumer and corporate demand, and stateand federal policies, something new has beenintroduced to the farm that can affectpollinators and increase farm revenue — andit’s not a fertilizer or herbicide.

Ground-mounted solar panels are a popularnew way for farmers nationwide to diversifyfarm revenue. However, a critical opportunityhas been overlooked on solar sites developedin Maryland—there’s been too much focus onthe hardware, and not enough consideration ofthe vegetation under and around the panels.

Pollinator habitat on solar sites is a commonpractice elsewhere and is abundantly feasiblein Maryland. The practice simply uses adifferent seed mix — not turf grass — to createa low-growing and shade-tolerant floweringmeadow. In fact, a 2013 study by the NatureConservancy, conducted in New Jersey,showed that pollinator habitat adjacent tocrops such as soybeans, watermelons,cantaloupes, squash, peaches, and applessignificantly increased yields and grossrevenue as a result of a greater abundance ofnative pollinators. When built and seeded withagriculture in mind, solar can have a place inthe agricultural landscape and any debateabout solar needs to include the benefits thesesites can provide.

Controlling Costs, Capturing BenefitsRob Davis

Fresh Energy, a 501(c)3 nonprofitThe poultry industry continues to bear theburden of long-term, increasing electricitycosts. In a typical operation, paying electricitybills accounts for around 20 percent of agrower’s costs. Prices are plummeting for renewable energytechnology. As of December 2016, costs forelectricity from wind and solar are lower thancoal and gas (Lazard, 2016). In just the lastseven years the cost of wind energy fell 66percent and solar fell 85 percent.Some folks don’t like living next to solararrays—particularly when the array is “solar-centric” in design (e.g. gravel covering thesite). Solar centric design should be avoided.these sites can be built and seeded in waysthat benefit agriculture. Following the exampleof DPI’s successful vegetative buffer program,solar sites can be planted with a mix of low-growing flowers and grasses that attract the

wild pollinators which help increase yields innearby soybean fields. Generating more power locally — with anenergy resource that is free and abundantthroughout the region—would help slow, thenstop, the cycle of regular electricity costincreases on Maryland’s largest agriculturalsector.

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Avian influenza detected in Tennessee, AlabamaIn early March, the U.S. Department ofAgriculture confirmed the presence of highlypathogenic avian influenza in a commercialchicken breeder flock in Lincoln County,Tennessee. A few days later, a less lethal, low-path strain was detected in Alabama.

What was detected in Tennessee was a NorthAmerican wild bird lineage virus. The flock of73,500 birds is located within the Mississippiflyway. This is the first confirmed case of highlypathogenic avian influenza in commercialpoultry in the America this year.

Tennessee officials quarantined the affectedpremises. The birds on the farm weredepopulated to prevent the spread of thedisease, and the birds did not enter the foodsystem.

This Tennessee discovery means all segmentsof Delmarva’s chicken industry need toincrease efforts to prevent the introduction ofan avian influenza virus into chicken houses.Chicken growers, suppliers of products andservices, and all others in Delmarva’s chickenindustry have a role to play.

It is each grower’s responsibility to preventthe introduction of the potentially deadlyvirus into chicken houses. Growers are thefirst line of defense and each grower shouldexamine his/her biosecurity plans and makesure adequate steps are in place now toprevent an avian influenza episode.  Growersshould not count on others to protect theirfarms and their families’ financial futures.

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Growers should:• Limit visitors on chicken farms and

minimize foot traffic, especially in the chicken houses.

• Block driveways and lock chicken housedoors to discourage or prevent visitors.

• Avoid contact with wild and domestic fowl.• Tighten chicken houses to keep free flying

birds out of the houses.• Avoid the sharing of farm equipment and

farm personnel.• Have a clean and functioning footbath at

each entrance to the chicken house.• Ensure that all visitors or personnel have

disinfected footwear or new footwear beforeentering a house.

• Change clothes and footwear after visitingcommunity gathering sites where othergrowers might congregate.

• Have chicken house-only footwear, one pairfor each house.

• Keep a visitors’ log to record who has beenon the farm and when.

• Make sure feed and water sources arecovered and free of contaminants, limitingthe attraction of wild fowl and pests.

• Post signs to discourage and/or preventunnecessary visitors.

• Employ effective pest and wild birdmanagement practices.

• Keep four-legged creatures out of houses.• Adequately train whomever has access to

the farm and chicken houses, includingfamily members, on biosecurity and diseaseprevention.

• Avoid entering the houses after huntingwithout first cleaning and changing clothesand footwear.

• Avoid all contact with ducks and geese andother wild waterfowl.  They are knowncarriers of the virus. 

• Make sure necessary visitors such asdelivery and repair personnel are practicing

good biosecurity that might include wearingdisposable footwear and clothing. If they arenot meeting growers’ expectations, theyshould be kept off of chicken farms.

Without adequate biosecurity plans in place,growers and others in the chicken industrymight suffer severe financial hardship if avianinfluenza is detected a Delmarva farm. 

It is up to Delmarva’s chicken growers toprotect their investments. Growers cannotleave it up to others. Further information onbiosecurity measures can be found on thisU.S. Department of Agriculture website:www.aphis.usda.gov/animalhealth/defendtheflock

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Legislative Actions Keep DPI BusyBy Bill Satterfield

DPI has been working in recent months,mostly in the Maryland General Assembly, toprotect our members’ interests in our statelegislatures.MarylandWith the legislative session to end on April 10,here is a recap of some of the bills we’ve beenworking on.

Senate Bill 773, labeled the CommunityHealthy Air Act, calls upon the MarylandDepartment of the Environment to conduct anenvironmental assessment of its compliancewith state and federal air quality laws andregulations and the compliance ofconcentrated animal feeding operations withthose same state and federal air quality lawsand regulations related to emissions of airpollutants. This bill affects not just EasternShore chicken farms, but animal farmsthroughout the state.The bill mandates that the MarylandDepartment of the Environment identify all airpollutants from CAFOs. EPA'sEPCRA/CERCLA/Clean Air Act ConsolidatedList of Lists includes about 1,800 air pollutants.Identifying all that might be coming fromCAFOs will be a challenge.MDE will be required to collect air qualitymonitoring data from CAFOs in accordancewith an air monitoring program implementedby the department. This could mean there willhave to be air monitoring stations on eachCAFO chicken farm in the state. That would bean expensive and time-consuming datacollection process that needs to be done overthe course of a year or more, not just for a fewweeks or days.

DPI , in comments to the Senate Education,Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee,expressed concern about how MDE will beable in one year, as called for in the bill, to

identify all pollutants coming out of CAFOs andthen to collect data on them, determine whereto place the monitoring equipment, buy andinstall all the necessary monitoring equipment,hire and train persons to install and monitorthese air monitoring stations, pay persons tocollect and compile the data, and prepare areport to the General Assembly by October 1,2018, one year after enactment of this bill. We pointed out that at the federal level, EPAhas been working for more than 12 years tofigure out how to monitor chicken house airemissions and one multi-year, multi-universitystudy has cost more than $15 million. And EPAstill does not know what to do. We questionwhether MDE has the money and expertise todo what this bill will require.This bill is being pushed by a handful ofpersons in Wicomico County who do not wantchicken houses built and operated inagricultural areas of the county. They areworking with professional advocates notfriendly toward the chicken industry. This couldbe part of their efforts to close down thechicken industry. Interestingly, the legislativesponsors are from Montgomery and PrinceGeorge's County and Baltimore City.This could impact our chicken growers if MDEtries to force its way onto farms to set upmonitoring stations. It could lead to more stateregulation for how growers operate theirchicken houses.While the gathering of scientifically valid andaccurate data could be helpful to our growersand our entire industry, this poorly drafted SB773 could lead to incorrect conclusions aboutall chicken farms based upon monitoring atjust a few of them, if MDE decides not tomonitor each farm. Incomplete, inaccurate,and poorly gathered data could lead toconclusions that could impact how growers

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operate their farms. These conclusions couldlead to additional state environmentalrequirements. If a study is to be done, it needsto be done right and this bill, we believe, willnot produce accurate results.We called upon our members to contact theSenate committee members to express theiropinions.

Four growers attended and testified at theFebruary 28 Senate committee hearing on thebill. Wicomico County growers MichelleChesnik, Christy Parker, and Larry Lembeckjoined with Caroline County grower KatieWinstead to offer compelling and excellentcomments why the bill should be killed.SB 422/HB 602, the Keep Antibiotics EffectiveAct of 2017, has required a lot of work by DPImembers. These identical bills would placestate restrictions on the use of antibiotics whileestablishing a reporting system to theMaryland Department of Agriculture. Weargued that these additional Marylandrestrictions, on top of what already is in placethrough the federal Food and DrugAdministration, are unnecessary and could beharmful to chickens. Additionally, the reportingsystem would yield little useful information andcould be used by critics of the chicken industry

to require even further restrictions in Marylandon using these animal health products. For our grower members, these are importantissues because it could mean raising chickensin Maryland will be more expensive than ourneighboring states. If that happens,Delmarva’s chicken companies might decide tostop growing chickens in Maryland. Thatwould be chaotic to many of our growers.

DPI’s effort to stop these bills was led by DPIPoultry Health Committee Chairman Dr. DonRitter. Overall leadership for our oppositioncampaign was provided by Colby Ferguson,Director of Government Relations for theMaryland Farm Bureau. The third bills capturing our attention were HB768/ SB 917 – Motor Vehicles - Gross Weightand Axle Load and Exceptional Hauling Permit– Poultry. These bills, with lead sponsorsDelegate Charles Otto and Senator JimMathias, both from the Lower Eastern Shore,would allow higher weight, five axletractor/trailer combination live-haul trucks onMaryland roads. We are trying to raise theweight limit in Maryland to be as close aspossible to the 90,000 pound limit in Delawareand the higher weight limit in Virginia. Thiswould allow a more efficient use of trucks,reduce fuel consumption, prevent air pollution,and allow cross-state movements of higherweight trucks birds among Delmarva’s threestates.We have faced resistance from the MarylandDepartment of Transportation because itclaims that raising the weight limit on five axletrucks will damage state roads,notwithstanding the reduced number of tripsthat will be made because of the heavier loadsand more birds. With six axle trucks, whichthe chicken companies and their live-haulcontractors do not have, the departmentclaims there will be less damage. The

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where a water utility has been granted aCertificate of Public Convenience andNecessity as those that currently apply to theissuance of a potable well permit. We have expressed our concerns to thesponsor, Representative Danny Short, andsome other legislators about how this couldhurt chicken growers wanting new wells.Representative Short said a substitute bill isbeing prepared that should eliminate concernsof the chicken industry and the agriculturalcommunity. VirginiaThe Virginia General Assembly session endedin late February with, as best we can tell, noharm being done to the Accomack Countychicken industry.

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Recipe of the month: Chicken Saltimbocca

This skillet dish addsItalian meat and cheeseto chicken breasts, andcoats it all with awine-lemon glaze. Itgoes well with pasta orfresh, thick-crustedbread.

CHICKEN SALTIMBOCCA

4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves(about 6 oz. each)

1/4 cup flour1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper1/8 teaspoon coarse salt

1 tablespoon olive oil1 tablespoon shredded Parmesan1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage

(or 1/2 tsp. dried)4 slices thinly sliced prosciutto 4 slices part-skim Mozzarella, about 2"x4"

1/2 cup dry white wine1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice4 fresh sage leaves (optional)

With meat mallet or similar utensil, poundchicken breasts to 1/4-inch thickness. Inshallow dish, mix together flour, pepper, andsalt. Coat chicken with flour mixture. In largenonstick fry pan, place oil and heat to medium-high temperature. Add chicken, cook about 8minutes, turning once, until chicken is brown.Reduce heat to medium-low and cook,covered, 5 minutes or until chicken is forktender. Sprinkle Parmesan over chicken; topwith chopped sage. Arrange 1 slice prosciutto,folded to fit, over each piece of chicken andtop with 1 slice mozzarella cheese. Cover frypan and cook 2 to 3 minutes or until cheesemelts. Remove chicken to serving platter;keep warm. To drippings in same pan, addwine and lemon juice. Heat to boiling; boil 2minutes or until sauce is reduced to about 1/4

cup. Spoon sauce over chicken cutlets.Garnish each portion with fresh sage leaf, ifdesired. Makes 4 servings.

Nutrition information per serving: 307 calories 38 g protein12.3 g total fat5.1 g saturated fat 8 g carbohydrates105 mg cholesterol631 mg sodiumFor dozens of other delicious chicken recipes,visit www.dpichicken.org and click on ourrecipe archive on the right-hand column.

Maryland Agriculture Law EducationInitiative revamps website

The Agriculture Law Education Initiative (ALEI)announced the launch of a fully redesignedwebsite to help farmers understand topics inthe law affecting them. The redesign includesseveral new features, including dynamicgraphics, a highlighted video library, and asearch bar that allows users to search theentire ALEI website for a specific resource ortopic.

“We outgrew our old website because theamount of offerings we have for the publichave changed a lot and we have a lot of mediacontent,” said Mayhah Suri, a facultyspecialist. “We wanted to get into the 21stcentury and be a modern and responsivemedia organization.”

A key component of ALEI’s mission is toconnect Maryland farm families with timely,relevant information. The site serves as auser-friendly introduction to ALEI and as anavigable repository of the resources ALEI hasfor farmers. Emails to ALEI may also be sentthrough the website.

Visit the newly designed ALEI website atwww.umaglaw.org.

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