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The right tree or group of trees in the right place can provide numerous benefits
Around the Farm
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- Protect your crops from hot drying winds
- Reduce winter and summer stress on your cows and calves
- Reduce utility bills on shops, homes, and confinement facilities
- Reduce erosion from run-off
- Reduce erosion and general soil loss from wind
- Snow retention where you want it and deflection where you don’t
- Provides wildlife habitat
- Provides hunting habitat
- Provides beneficial insect habitat for reducing chemical use on crops
- Makes oxygen
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Around Town
- Reduce utility bills on you home or business
- Reduce noise from surroundings
- Reduces heat island effect
- Provides beneficial insect habitat for reducing chemical use on your garden
- Makes oxygen
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“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”
— U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to U.S. school children for Arbor Day 1907
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