ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 09, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Below is a statement for Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance on the passage of SB 1029 \u2013 Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, I congratulate Governor O\u2019Malley and members of the General Assembly for working together to create a program that will help Maryland meet the goals of our Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan while providing farmers an opportunity to conduct their business in a predictable regulatory setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgriculture is a $2.1 billion industry in Maryland. It occupies more than 2 million acres \u2013 or one-third of the state\u2019s land. Governor O\u2019Malley has supported both this important industry and Chesapeake Bay restoration goals and has been committed to the notion that both can be done without expense to the other. Maryland is on a path of continuous improvement and is developing more tools to accelerate progress toward Chesapeake Bay restoration goals. The Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program is one of those tools.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to working with the Governor and other stakeholders as we put Certainty into action over the next year. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 09, 2013) \u2013 Below is a statement for Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance on the passage of SB 1029 \u2013 Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program. \u201cToday, I congratulate Governor O\u2019Malley and members of the General Assembly for working together to create a program that will help Maryland meet the goals of our Chesapeake Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}