ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 7, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Agricultural Commission will hold a public meeting following its annual spring agricultural tour of Baltimore and Carroll counties on Wednesday, April 14.<\/p>\n
The public meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in Friendly Farm Restaurant, 17434 Foreston Road Upperco, MD 21155-9414.<\/p>\n
Anyone interested in farming and rural topics is encouraged to attend the meeting and have an opportunity to discuss issues and policy affecting agriculture and rural communities, exchange ideas, get better acquainted with the role of the Maryland Agricultural Commission, and meet the Commission members.<\/p>\n
The Maryland Agricultural Commission is presently made up of 29 members who represent commodities and organizations across the state and serve as an advisory body to Maryland\u2019s Secretary of Agriculture.\u00a0 As a group, the members address legislative and policy issues that affect Maryland agribusiness.<\/p>\n
For further information, please call Florence Jordan at the Maryland Department of Agriculture, 410-841-5882.<\/p>\n
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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Media interested in attending the Commission\u2019s tour of several farms in Baltimore and Carroll counties that day should contact Sue duPont, 410-841-5889 or Julie Oberg, 410-841-5888 for details. ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 7, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Agricultural Commission will hold a public meeting following its annual spring agricultural tour of Baltimore and Carroll counties on Wednesday, April 14. The public meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in Friendly Farm Restaurant, 17434 Foreston Road Upperco, MD 21155-9414. Anyone interested in farming and rural topics Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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