{"id":693,"date":"2011-08-04T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-08-17T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:17:22","slug":"agricultural-highlights-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2011\/08\/04\/agricultural-highlights-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Highlights &#8211; August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horse Pasture Seminar Set For September 10<\/strong><br \/>\nThe University of Maryland\u2019s Equine Rotational Grazing Demonstration Farm will host a horse pasture seminar on Saturday, September 10 from 9 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center, 4241 Folly Quarter Road in Ellicott City.\u00a0 Topics covered will include grass and weed identification, weed control methods, runoff management and pasture renovation and improvements. The registration fee is $25. All registrations must be received by September 3. For more information, visit the website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansc.umd.edu\/ERG\">www.ansc.umd.edu\/ERG<\/a> or contact Amy Burk at amyburk@umd.edu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ag Education Scholarship and Fundraiser Set for September 14<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation and the Maryland Greenhouse Growers Association will sponsor their annual Agricultural Education and Scholarship Golf Fundraiser on Wednesday, September 14, at the Oakmont Green Golf Club in Hampstead.\u00a0 Tee time is noon.\u00a0 The registration fee is $100 per person.\u00a0 Corporate\/team sponsorships are also available.\u00a0 All proceeds support the education and outreach programs of the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation and the Maryland Greenhouse Grower\u2019s Association.\u00a0 For a registration form or more information, call 410-939-9030 or email gmayo@maefonline.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nutrient Management Workshops Offered<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Maryland Department of Agriculture and University of Maryland Cooperative Extension will offer a one-day workshop titled, How to Write a Nutrient Management Plan, Wednesday, September 21, at the Wye Research and Education Center in Queenstown and Tuesday, September 27, at the Montgomery County Cooperative Extension Office in Derwood.\u00a0 The course, designed for people who are new to the nutrient management plan-writing process, will teach participants how to write a nutrient management plan using NuMan Pro, the nutrient management planning software program. Participants receive six credit hours toward the Maryland Nutrient Management Program\u2019s continuing education requirement. To register, call 410-841-5959 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mda.state.md.us\">www.mda.state.md.us<\/a>.\u00a0 Scroll down the Quick Links to Nutrient Management and click on Nutrient Management Training Classes for a registration form.<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse Pasture Seminar Set For September 10 The University of Maryland\u2019s Equine Rotational Grazing Demonstration Farm will host a horse pasture seminar on Saturday, September 10 from 9 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m. at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center, 4241 Folly Quarter Road in Ellicott City.\u00a0 Topics covered will include grass and weed identification,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2011\/08\/04\/agricultural-highlights-august-2011\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[5,914,110],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-meeting","tag-nutrient-management","tag-training-workshop"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}