{"id":26516,"date":"2022-06-07T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26516"},"modified":"2022-06-07T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:42:20","slug":"maryland-announces-extension-of-certification-and-renewal-dates-for-lawn-care-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/06\/07\/maryland-announces-extension-of-certification-and-renewal-dates-for-lawn-care-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Announces Extension of Certification and Renewal Dates for Lawn Care Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/06\/07\/maryland-announces-extension-of-certification-and-renewal-dates-for-lawn-care-professionals\/attachment\/untitled-album-cover-facebook-post-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?fit=940%2C788&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,788\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Untitled (Album Cover) (Facebook Post) (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?fit=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?fit=760%2C637&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?resize=300%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?resize=768%2C644&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/Untitled-Album-Cover-Facebook-Post-2-1.png?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Businesses and individuals now have until December 31, 2022<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 7, 2022) \u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced new certification and license renewal dates for businesses and individuals hired to fertilize lawns and turf.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Certified Professional Fertilizer Applicators (PFAs) and licensed businesses now have until <\/span><b>December 31, 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to renew their certifications and licenses instead of June 30, 2022. The move was made to help lawn care professionals and businesses keep their renewals up to date by changing the deadline from peak season to off-season. Here\u2019s what lawn care pros and licensed firms need to know:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PFAs and businesses with valid certifications or licenses expiring June 30, 2022, will be granted extensions until December 31, 2022<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These individuals have been mailed letters announcing this regulatory change to the deadline\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This letter should be kept with the current certificate or license as proof that credentials are valid and up to date<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renewal notices for Calendar Year 2023 will be mailed in November 2022, and are due to MDA by December 31, 2022<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 3-year period for PFAs to obtain six continuing education credits will be extended from June 30, 2022 until December 31, 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information on certification and license requirements and Maryland\u2019s Lawn Fertilizer Law, please visit MDA\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/Pages\/fertilizer.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:nminfo.mda@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nminfo.mda@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses and individuals now have until December 31, 2022 ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 7, 2022) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced new certification and license renewal dates for businesses and individuals hired to fertilize lawns and turf.\u00a0 Certified Professional Fertilizer Applicators (PFAs) and licensed businesses now have until December 31, 2022 to renew<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/06\/07\/maryland-announces-extension-of-certification-and-renewal-dates-for-lawn-care-professionals\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"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-26516","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\/26516","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\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26520,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions\/26520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}