Missouri Governor Nixon Announces State Clean Power Plan Page 24

Over the past five years, Gov. Nixon has made clean, reliable, affordable and abundant energy a priority of his administration. Missouri state agencies have reduced energy use by more than 22 percent since the Governor signed an executive order in 2009 directing agencies to reduce their energy use by two percent each year. The Governor also signed the Energy Efficiency Investment Act to give investor-owned utilities an incentive to implement energy efficiency programs, which protect the environment and hold down costs for consumers.

In 2010, the Governor's Strategic Initiative for Economic Growth identified "Energy Solutions" as one of seven target industries with the highest potential for creating jobs and spurring economic growth. Last year, in recognition of energy's unique and growing importance to the state's economy, Gov. Nixon issued an executive order realigning the Division of Energy from the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Economic Development, which the General Assembly approved.

http://blog.stlouisrenewableenergy.com/2015/05/missouri-ranks-6th-from-bottom.html & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KfEAbcTwmM#action=share

Missouri Energy Efficiency Ranking Page 23

Missouri Ranks 6th from the bottom of all USA States in energy efficiency. The sustainable insulating building

products from the Hemp plant can be utilized in MOhemp Energy's Home State to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings in the State.

http://blog.stlouisrenewableenergy.com/2015/05/missouri-ranks-6th-from-bottom.html

 Local Demand met by Local Resources!

Green and Sustainable Building Trends Page 22

1) Green building. Demand is finally coming back in the construction industry, and it’s coming back green. By 2016, more than half of all commercial and institutional construction will be environmentally sustainable, energy efficient or both. Green residential projects are on the rise as well. Abundant government subsidies and tax cuts for green building doesn’t hurt, either. IBISWorld projects 23% annual growth in the green building industry through 2016.

2) The US Green Building Council Colorado chapter predicts the following green building trends for 2015: Green construction powers industry: “As a panel of developers and owners told us at our Commercial Real Estate Forum, green buildings are becoming a must-have for owners,” said Sharon Alton, executive director, USGBC Colorado.

3)I recently heard a powerful statistic presented by a guest speaker at Greenbuild 2013 in Philadelphia. Stuart Kaplow, an attorney and green building practitioner, said that over the last seven years, non-residential green building construction has grown from 1.4% to 44% of the construction market. He reminded the audience this represents a 3200% increase. So is green big? You bet it is. It continues to grow and it is the way most product manufacturers are using to reach out to designers.

1. 5 Fast-Growing Industries Ripe for Entrepreneurs-http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233490 2.Read more:http://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/01/02/2015-green-building-trends/#ixzz3dq3bxGnh 3.See more at: http://vinylinfo.org/growth-in-green-mcgraw-hill-reports-on-world-green-building-trends/#sthash.Dlbw5fa7.dpuf

Estimated returns to land, capital, and management per acre for industrial hemp and common Kentucky crops Page 21

1997 Crop Estimated return to land, capital, and management Dollars/acre Source: Table 13—Thompson

Hemp, seed only ........................................................220.15

Hemp, fiber only .........................................................316.45

Hemp, seed and fiber .................................................319.51

Hemp, certified seed only ...........................................605.91

Grain sorghum, conventional tillage .............................10.51

Wheat, reduced tillage .................................................14.24

Continuous corn ...........................................................75.71

Soybeans, no-till, rotation following crop .....................102.20

No-till corn, rotation following soybeans ......................106.48

Wheat/no-till soybeans, double-crop following corn..... 158.43

Hemp vs Corn and Soybeans Monetary Value Page 20

Corn

Income over Operating Costs/Acre	$107.45
Income over Total Costs/Acre	-$112.28

Soybeans

Income over Operating Cost/Acre	$162.87
Income over Total Costs/Acre	-$43.92

Hemp

2) Fiber Hemp / Acre	-116 to 473
3) Seed Hemp / Acre	-136 to 604

USDA Industrial Hemp in the United States pg 18,

2) Various sources priced dry, defoliated stalks at $60 to $125 per metric ton. 3)One source estimated returns at $60 to $171 per acre for seed (for oil and feed), while another estimated seed returns at $800 per acre (2,000 pounds per acre at 40 cents per pound). Source: McNulty.

• One Bushel of Soybean Produces: 1.5 gallons of soy oil AND 48 pounds of soybean meal, which supplies 21 pounds of protein animal feed. Industrial uses of soybean are inks, plastics, solvents and biodiesel.
• University of Missouri Crop Resource Guide-5 year average annual value of Missouri corn production between 2010 and 2014 $2,028,491,200.00 http://crops.missouri.edu/audit/corn.htm#budget,
• Missouri Soybean Facts Five-year average annual value of Missouri soybean production between 2010 and 2014a $2,476,185,600 http://crops.missouri.edu/audit/soybean.htm,

Hemp Plant Biomass Energy Value Page 19

Biomass Pellet Maker Hemp Fiber Pellets

Biofuel Energy, January 2012-There’s a New Biofuel Crop in Town Work by Agricultural Research Service scientists in Florence, South Carolina, suggests that farmers in the Southeast could use the tropical legume sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) in their crop rotations by harvesting the fast-growing annual for biofuel. In 2004, when there was ample rainfall, the resulting sunn hemp biomass yield exceeded 4.5 tons per acre. This is equivalent to 82.4 gigajoules of energy per acre—close to the energy contained in 620 gallons of gasoline and well in the ballpark of other bioenergy crops, which have yields of anywhere from 30 to 150 gigajoules per acre. The higher heating value of sunn hemp biomass exceeded that of switchgrass, Bermudagrass, reed canarygrass, and alfalfa. And although reduced rainfall resulted in lower hemp biomass yields in 2006, sunn hemp’s higher heating value for both study years was 4 to 5 percent greater than that of cowpea.