{"id":21732,"date":"2018-01-22T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:26:59","slug":"department-launches-specialty-crop-survey-for-grant-funding-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2018\/01\/22\/department-launches-specialty-crop-survey-for-grant-funding-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Launches Specialty Crop Survey for Grant Funding Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Survey Deadline is February 9
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St. Mary’s County Farmers market (Credit: Edwin Remsberg)<\/p><\/div>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture is conducting a survey of Maryland\u2019s specialty crop industries. The\u00a0survey\u00a0aims to create funding priorities for the department\u2019s Specialty Crop Block Grant. Previous funding priorities included food safety, market enhancement and pest management. Deadline for the survey is February 9.\u00a0\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to access the online survey.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines specialty crops as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops. Visit the USDA\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0for a comprehensive list of eligible specialty crops. Funding for the grant comes from the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, which was authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill. Last year, the department received approximately $407,000 in funds for the development of specialty crop projects that will enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops in Maryland.<\/p>\n

Anyone who produces a specialty crop, works with a specialty crop, or is otherwise associated with a specialty crop industry should participate in the survey. For more information on Specialty Crop Block Grant Survey, contact Karen Fedor at\u00a0karen.fedor@maryland.gov<\/a>\u00a0or 410-841-5773.<\/p>\n

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Survey Deadline is February 9 ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture is conducting a survey of Maryland\u2019s specialty crop industries. The\u00a0survey\u00a0aims to create funding priorities for the department\u2019s Specialty Crop Block Grant. Previous funding priorities included food safety, market enhancement and pest management. Deadline for the survey is February 9.\u00a0\u00a0Click here\u00a0to access the online  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-21732","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\/21732","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21734,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}