GEORGETOWN, Del. — The Delmarva Poultry Industry recently received $200,000 in funding from USDA to help grow trees and grasses around chicken houses.
The funding from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will help DPI's Vegetative Environmental Buffers program, which seeks to have vegetative buffers planted on 50 Delmarva Peninsula chicken farms in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the coming 12 months.
The NRCS funding will be shared among chicken growers in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. The money will be used to purchase and install trees, grasses and irrigation systems.
Jim Passwaters, DPI's buffers coordinator, works with growers. . .
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