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Andy Petesch: If I could at this time. It may assist the Board if I could hand out some notebooks that have 1 <br />some exhibits. Some of them have already been admitted, some of them I will admit as we go… So under 2 <br />tab 17 there are a couple of documents. Could you identify those to the Board please? 3 <br /> 4 <br />Kara Brewer: Sure. The first one is my farmer exemption certificate. That was May 2015. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Andy Petesch: That’s for North Carolina sales tax? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct. 9 <br /> 10 <br />Andy Petesch: And the second? 11 <br /> 12 <br />Kara Brewer: It’s my forestry management plan. 13 <br /> 14 <br />Andy Petesch: And the third? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Kara Brewer: The farm number. 17 <br /> 18 <br />Andy Petesch: This is from the USDA farm service agency? 19 <br /> 20 <br />Kara Brewer: Correct. 21 <br /> 22 <br />Andy Petesch: I’d like to admit those to the Brewers’ exhibits. 23 <br /> 24 <br />LeAnne Brown: I’d like to lodge an objection for the record to the extent that much of the material here are 25 <br />not exhibits for the purpose of evidence but are in fact statutes and other material that, some of which, are 26 <br />in your record. I don’t mind you having it but I don’t think all of it is evidential. So for the record I would 27 <br />object on that basis. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Andy Petesch: And to the extent that there is statutory language; the County’s comprehensive plan, the 30 <br />forest management plan, etcetera. Those documents speak for themselves. Some of them I will seek to put 31 <br />into the record and into evidence when the appropriate time comes. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Karen Barrows: Can I ask a question? I’m looking at the forestry one and it says, “Extra information 34 <br />designed to help you make sound decisions in managing your forest”. What is your forest going to be? 35 <br />Those chestnut trees? 36 <br /> 37 <br />Kara Brewer: So, yes. With the forestry management plan they gave me two options. We could clear cut 38 <br />the entire property, which I did not want to do. It was important to me for the overall farm plan to leave trees 39 <br />and woods there for wild life. So the secondary was to manage that area, clear what I needed to clear for 40 <br />the farming operation and leave some of the forest around it and then yes, adding the chestnut aspect to it 41 <br />as well. 42 <br /> 43 <br />Karen Barrows: How many chestnut trees are you going to plant? 44 <br /> 45 <br />Kara Brewer: So on this farm we started with 36 just to see how they did and they’re doing well. We’re 46 <br />doubling that this spring and then I’m hoping to get close to 150 chestnut trees on that property. 47 <br /> 48 <br />40