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Agriculture
Maryland farmers squeezed by soaring fuel, fertilizer costs
- Maryland’s farmers feel their customers’ pain.
Money for farm preservation contingent on meeting new rules
- Harford County boasts the third-best agricultural preservation program in the state and one of the top 10 in the nation, but officials fretted recently over whether they could meet strict new guidelines to keep state funding.
New farm preservation rules cause struggles in Harford
- Harford County boasts the third-best agricultural preservation program in the state and one of the top 10 in the nation. But officials fretted Tuesday over whether they’d be able to meet strict new guidelines to keep state funding.
Rising costs could snag ag center
- Traffic concerns and soaring costs could jeopardize highly touted plans for an agricultural center in Baltimore County, lawmakers said Thursday.
Program would shift farmers’ excess water to municipalities
- Coping with a water shortage and a booming population, Carroll County has a unique plan to preserve farmland and allow towns to use more water to expand development.
With start of spring, farmers prepare for planting season
- Along with being the first day of spring, Thursday was National Agriculture Day.
- Along with being the first day of spring, Thursday was National Agriculture Day.
Real estate slump reducing funds for farm preservation
- Harford County’s agricultural-preservation program could be endangered by the declining real estate market because taxes on home sales cover most of the program’s costs, county officials say.
Farmers in preservation program to get tax breaks
- Harford farm owners in an agriculture-preservation program would get an average of $444 more in annual tax breaks under new legislation.
Group to look at easing rules on farms that make, sell goods
- Dawn Bero had planned to put a refrigerated building on her farm to sell produce from her farm four years ago.
- Dawn Bero had planned to put a refrigerated building on her farm to sell produce from her farm four years ago.
Drought killing corn crop early this year, affecting livestock
- The drought is leaving its withering mark all across the state.
Councilman: Farmers should process what's grown
- Harford County Councilman Chad Shrodes can already see it: a section in grocery stores designated for local farmers’ processed foods, from family-recipe fruit pies to hamburgers.
Health-conscious consumers drive buffalo farm’s boom
- Health-conscious consumers are driving a booming buffalo industry, including Carroll’s largest bison farm.
- Health-conscious consumers are driving a booming buffalo industry, including Carroll’s largest bison farm.
Harford gives thousands for ag technology
- The robotic milker at Broom’s Bloom Dairy farm outside Bel Air, which allows cows to milk themselves, may be the only in the state, but Harford County officials want more similar technology.
- The robotic milker at Broom’s Bloom Dairy farm outside Bel Air, which allows cows to milk themselves, may be the only in the state, but Harford County officials want more similar technology.