{"id":24274,"date":"2020-04-08T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=24274"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:21:35","slug":"deadline-to-report-extended-season-acres-for-cover-crops-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2020\/04\/08\/deadline-to-report-extended-season-acres-for-cover-crops-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline to Report Extended Season Acres for Cover Crops Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Participating Farmers Must Report Fields by April 15<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture reminds farmers participating in its Cover Crop Program that they have until <\/span>April 15<\/b> to report fields to be included in the extended season payment option. The 2019-2020 Cover Crop Program provides an additional $15 per acre incentive payment to qualifying farmers who agree to terminate their cover crops after May 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Farmers who plan to delay kill down of their cover crop should notify their local soil conservation district of their intention <\/span>by telephone or email only. <\/b>In-person visits to field offices have been suspended due to the current state of emergency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Cover Crop Program is administered by the Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share Program and funded by the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund and the Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A list of soil conservation district websites and contact information can be found on the department\u2019s <\/span>website<\/span><\/a>. For more information, farmers should contact the department\u2019s Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share Program at 410-841-5864.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span>@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Participating Farmers Must Report Fields by April 15 ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture reminds farmers participating in its Cover Crop Program that they have until April 15 to report fields to be included in the extended season payment option. The 2019-2020 Cover Crop Program provides an additional $15 per acre incentive payment to  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24274","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\/24274","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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24281,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274\/revisions\/24281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}