{"id":28429,"date":"2024-08-22T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=28429"},"modified":"2024-08-22T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:57:17","slug":"department-advises-rural-marylanders-to-anticipate-an-increase-in-low-flying-planes-due-to-fall-cover-crop-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2024\/08\/22\/department-advises-rural-marylanders-to-anticipate-an-increase-in-low-flying-planes-due-to-fall-cover-crop-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Advises Rural Marylanders to Anticipate an Increase in Low-Flying Planes Due to Fall Cover Crop Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ANNAPOLIS, MD (August 22, 2024)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/strong>\u00a0is advising rural residents to anticipate a rise in low-flying airplanes, helicopters, and drones through\u00a0October 10, 2024<\/strong>. Farmers participating in\u00a0Maryland\u2019s Cover Crop Program<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are using aerial seeding to plant cereal grains and other qualifying cover crops in their fields to protect local waterways from nutrient runoff and enhance their soil’s health for spring crops.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAerial seeding is a fast and efficient way to plant cover crops to recover any leftover nutrients from summer crops before they impact local waterways,\u201d said\u00a0Maryland Agriculture Secretary Kevin Atticks<\/strong>. \u201cPlanting fall cover crops early becomes especially important during a drought year, when summer crops cannot use all the nutrients available in the soil. Residents of rural Maryland should anticipate an increase in low-flying aircraft over the next few weeks as critical aerial seeding takes place.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Farmers enrolled in the department\u2019s Cover Crop Program receive grants to plant small grains, legumes, and other cover crops in their fields in the fall. Farmers may incorporate seeds into newly harvested fields or aerially seed them into standing corn, soybeans, or sorghum. Once established, cover crops work all winter to provide a living, protective cover against erosion and nutrient runoff while building the soil\u2019s organic matter for spring crops.\u00a0Cover crops also help remove carbon dioxide\u2014a greenhouse gas\u2014from the air and can protect farm fields from too much or too little rain. When planting cover crops, no pesticides or fertilizers are applied. For aerial seeding, small planes and helicopters will take off from local airports serving the county or region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Cover Crop Program is funded by the\u00a0Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund<\/strong>. The program is administered by the department and the state\u2019s 24 soil conservation districts through the\u00a0Conservation Grants Program<\/strong><\/a>. For more information, please contact your\u00a0local soil conservation district.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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ANNAPOLIS, MD (August 22, 2024)\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture\u00a0is advising rural residents to anticipate a rise in low-flying airplanes, helicopters, and drones through\u00a0October 10, 2024. Farmers participating in\u00a0Maryland\u2019s Cover Crop Program\u00a0are using aerial seeding to plant cereal grains and other qualifying cover crops in their fields to protect local waterways from nutrient runoff and enhance  Read the Rest…<\/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-28429","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\/28429","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=28429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28430,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429\/revisions\/28430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}