{"id":20677,"date":"2016-09-08T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2016-09-08T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:30:57","slug":"media-advisory-secretary-bartenfelder-to-join-secretary-vilsack-to-highlight-celebrate-accomplishments-of-chesapeake-bay-area-farmers-forest-landowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2016\/09\/08\/media-advisory-secretary-bartenfelder-to-join-secretary-vilsack-to-highlight-celebrate-accomplishments-of-chesapeake-bay-area-farmers-forest-landowners\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: Secretary Bartenfelder to Join Secretary Vilsack to Highlight, Celebrate Accomplishments of Chesapeake Bay-Area Farmers, Forest Landowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD (Sept. 7, 2016) \u00a0\u2013 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. \u00a0Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joseph Bartnerfelder will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other agriculture and conservation leaders from across the Bay region on <strong>Friday, September 9,<\/strong> to celebrate the accomplishments of thousands of stewardship-minded farmers and forest landowners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What: \u00a0<\/strong>Celebration of Conservation to Improve Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Y Worry Farm, 1501 Rossback Road, Davidsonville, MD 21035<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: \u00a0<\/strong>11:30 a.m. on Friday, September 9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who: <\/strong>\u00a0Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>Jason Weller, Chief of USDA\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service<\/p>\n<p>Joe Bartenfelder, Secretary of Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>Jason Scott, Maryland farmer<\/p>\n<p>Please RSVP to Julie Oberg at: <a href=\"mailto:Julie.oberg@maryland.gov\">Julie.oberg@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p>Follow MDA on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MdAgDept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD (Sept. 7, 2016) \u00a0\u2013 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. \u00a0Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joseph Bartnerfelder will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other agriculture and conservation leaders from<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2016\/09\/08\/media-advisory-secretary-bartenfelder-to-join-secretary-vilsack-to-highlight-celebrate-accomplishments-of-chesapeake-bay-area-farmers-forest-landowners\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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-20677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20678,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}