ANNAPOLIS, MD (July 7, 2010) \u2013 Governor Martin O’Malley issued this statement today on the drought conditions being experienced by Maryland farmers: \u201cThis summer\u2019s lack of rainfall has left many areas of the State in rainfall and soil moisture deficits that are impacting agricultural crops significantly.\u00a0 In some areas, farmers are reporting total loss of their corn crop as well as other un-irrigated crops.\u00a0 We are very concerned about the situation and are closely monitoring the situation through our Department of Agriculture, so we can request a disaster designation if it becomes appropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, I\u2019ve asked the Maryland Department of Agriculture to begin providing free testing service for grain that may be affected by drought-related toxins.\u00a0 In addition, we encourage farmers to be in touch with their crop insurance agents so they can receive indemnities to which they\u2019re entitled.\u00a0 Farmers should also familiarize themselves with U.S. Department of Agriculture disaster assistance programs, which may become available through their local Farm Service Agency offices if crop conditions continue to deteriorate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile agriculture appears to be the most significantly affected group at this time, it is important for all of us to try to reduce water consumption.\u00a0 There are many ways to do this in your gardens, homes and businesses.\u00a0 With no rain in sight and extreme temperatures further evaporating any moisture available to plants, we need to continue common sense conservation measures, until this drought is behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information, visit the Department of Environment<\/a> and the Department of Agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (July 7, 2010) \u2013 Governor Martin O’Malley issued this statement today on the drought conditions being experienced by Maryland farmers: \u201cThis summer\u2019s lack of rainfall has left many areas of the State in rainfall and soil moisture deficits that are impacting agricultural crops significantly.\u00a0 In some areas, farmers are reporting total loss of 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-1944","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\/1944","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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}