TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OFFERED

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 13, 1992                   TAG: 9202120041
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-14   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short
TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OFFERED
A federal Tree Assistance Program will assist tree growers who lost trees to natural disasters in 1990 and 1991. Terry Altizer, executive director of Montgomery County's Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said the program will reimburse eligible small- and medium-scale commercial growers for a portion of their losses to orchards and tree stands because of drought or freeze.
To qualify, a grower's loss on an individual stand of trees must have been greater than 35 percent after adjustment for normal mortality. ASCS is at 7 N. Franklin.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB