Media Advisory: Secretary Bartenfelder to Join Secretary Vilsack to Highlight, Celebrate Accomplishments of Chesapeake Bay-Area Farmers, Forest Landowners

ANNAPOLIS, MD (Sept. 7, 2016)  – Farmers and forest landowners in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have made significant investments to improve water quality, making voluntary improvements to millions of acres of working lands across the watershed.  Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joseph Bartnerfelder will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other agriculture and conservation leaders from across the Bay region on Friday, September 9, to celebrate the accomplishments of thousands of stewardship-minded farmers and forest landowners.

What:  Celebration of Conservation to Improve Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay

Where: Y Worry Farm, 1501 Rossback Road, Davidsonville, MD 21035

When:  11:30 a.m. on Friday, September 9

Who:  Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

Jason Weller, Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service

Joe Bartenfelder, Secretary of Maryland Department of Agriculture

Jason Scott, Maryland farmer

Please RSVP to Julie Oberg at: [email protected]

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