{"id":29568,"date":"2026-02-05T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=29568"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:15:50","slug":"department-extends-deadline-for-farmers-to-file-annual-implementation-reports-airs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2026\/02\/05\/department-extends-deadline-for-farmers-to-file-annual-implementation-reports-airs\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Extends Deadline for Farmers to File Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">Department Extends Deadline for Farmers to File Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD (February 4, 2026)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/strong>\u00a0has extended the deadline for farmers to submit Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs) for 2025 nutrient applications to April 1, 2026. This extension also applies to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Due to unforeseen printing issues, AIRs for several regions of the state will not be mailed until later this week. To accommodate the delayed delivery of these personalized paper reporting forms, MDA has extended the deadline by one month.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Thank you to the farmers who reached out with their concerns; your feedback is greatly appreciated!<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">As a reminder, electronic reporting is available through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onestop.md.gov\/forms\/nutrient-management-annual-implementation-report-air-69656e3747051901811d2676\">Maryland OneStop<\/a>. Those who are new to this electronic reporting option will need to register for an account. In addition, blank paper reporting forms are available for download on the department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/resource_conservation\/Pages\/air.aspx\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">For more information, farmers should contact their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/resource_conservation\/counties\/Nutrient%20Management%20Regional%20Offices.pdf\">regional nutrient management office<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Extends Deadline for Farmers to File Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs) ANNAPOLIS, MD (February 4, 2026)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture\u00a0has extended the deadline for farmers to submit Annual Implementation Reports (AIRs) for 2025 nutrient applications to April 1, 2026. This extension also applies to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).\u00a0 Due to unforeseen printing issues, AIRs for<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2026\/02\/05\/department-extends-deadline-for-farmers-to-file-annual-implementation-reports-airs\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"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":[403,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-newsroom","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\/29568","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}