Manure Injection Field Day P.1

Farmer’s Field Day P.1

Calendar P.2

Organic Production Workshop Remaining Video Segments

P.3

Beef Quality Assurance

Workshop

P.3

Cover Crop Management

Workshop

P.3

Pesticide Container Recycling

Program 2018

P.4

Next Gen Farmland Acquisition

Program Info Session

P.4

Maryland Risk Management Education Blog

P.5

Queen Anne’s Museum of Eastern Shore Life

P.6

Queen Anne’s County Master Gardeners Annual Plant Sale

P.6

Volume 8, Issue 5 May 2018

AGLINE

DAIRY INFORMATION

http://extension.psu.edu/animals/dairy

LIVESTOCK INFORMATION http://extension.psu.edu/

POULTRY INFORMATION https://extension.umd.edu/poultry

GRAIN INFORMATION

http://extension.umd.edu/grain

FOREST STEWARDSHIP EDUCATION

https://extension.umd.edu/news/newsletters/branching-out

WATERSHED PROTECTION/RESTORATION https://extension.umd.edu/news/newsletters/

headwaters

Newsletter—Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s Counties

Volume 8, Issue 5 Page 2

MAY 2018 01 - Timely Ag Issues/Grain Marketing, 7:30 a.m., QA Ex-

tension Office, Centreville, MD, coffee, donuts. 01 - Cover Crop Demonstration Plots Tour and Discussion,

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m., Georgetown, DE. For information visit

http://www.deccnetwork.com/ 03 - Next Generation Farmland Acquisition Program In-

formation Session, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Talbot Free Library,

Easton, MD. For more information, contact Josh Hastings, 410

-251-5268, jhastings@eslc.org. Details P4 03 - Cover Crop Demonstration Plots Tour and Discussion,

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m., Middletown, DE. For information visit

http://www.deccnetwork.com/ 07 - Manure Injection Field Day, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.,

Chestertown, MD. For more information and to register, con-

tact jrhodes@umd.edu, 410-758-0166. Details P1 09 - WIA Wednesday Webinar— How to Avoid the Pro-

bate Process. For information and to register visit http://

www.extension.umd.edu/womeninag/webinars. 09 - Seafood HACCP Segment Two Course, 8:00 a.m.-5:00

p.m., Princess Anne, MD. For information contact Catherine

Liu, 410-651-6636, cathyliu@umd.edu. To register, visit Sea-

food HACCP Segment Two Course. 10 - Pests & Pollinators Presentation, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.,

Elkton, MD. For information call 410-996-5280. 10 - Seafood Sanitation Control Procedures (SCP) Course,

8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Princess Anne, MD. MD. For infor-

mation contact Catherine Liu, 410-651-6636, cathy-

liu@umd.edu. To register, visit Seafood Sanitation Control

Procedures Course. 12 - Eastern Shore Spring Show, Queen Anne’s County 4-H

Park, Centreville, MD. https://extension.umd.edu/cecil-

county/4-h-youth/fairs-and-shows 12 - Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener’s Plant Sale,

9:00 a.m.-noon, Centreville, MD. Details P6 13 - Mother’s Day 15 - Pasture Walk, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Cockeysville, MD.

For information contact etaylor3@umd.edu, 410-887-8090. 16 - Queen Anne’s County Farm Bureau County Commis-

sioner Candidates Forum, 6:30 p.m., Ruthsburg Communi-

ty Center, Centreville, MD. 17 - Food for Profit Workshop, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Silver

Spring, MD. For information and to register, visit https://ffp-

may17.eventbrite.com/ or Susan Barnes, sbarnes6@umd.edu,

301-432-2767. 19 - Seed Saving Success & Composting Workshop, 9:00

a.m.-noon, Elkton, MD. For information, call 410-996-5280. 19 - Beef Quality Assurance Certification Workshop, 9:30

a.m.-3:00 p.m., Fairplay, MD. Details P3 23 - WIA Wednesday Webinar— Food Marketing Trends.

For information and to register visit http://

www.extension.umd.edu/womeninag/webinars. 23 - Annual Strawberry Twilight Meeting, 6:00 p.m.-8:00

p.m., WyeREC, Queenstown, MD. For information, call Mar-

sha Dicus, 410-827-8056 x115, mdicus@umd.edu. 26 - Beef Quality Assurance Certification Workshop, 9:30

a.m.-3:00 p.m., Mechanicsville, MD. Details P3 28 - Memorial Day 29-30 - Fundamentals of Nutrient Management, Annapolis,

MD. For information call 410-841-5959 or visit, Nutrient

Management Training. 31 - Perennial Pasture Walk and Milking Robot Demo at

St. Brigid’s Farm, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Kennedyville, MD.

For information contact Niamh Shortt,

Niamh@futureharvestcasa.org.

JUNE 2018

02-03 - Cecil County Breeders Fair, Fair Hill, MD. For

information visit https://extension.umd.edu/cecil-county/4-h-

youth/fairs-and-shows 05 - Timely Ag Issues/Grain Marketing, 7:30 a.m., QA Ex-

tension Office, Centreville, MD, coffee, donuts. 06 - Pest and Beneficial Insect Walk, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.,

Sussex County Extension Office, Georgetown, DE. 08-09 - Beef Producer’s Short Course, Series I,

Leonardtown, MD. For information and to register , con-

tact Racheal Slattery, rslatt@umd.edu, 301-405-1392. 12 - Cover Crop Management Workshop, 5:30 p.m.-8:30

p.m., Chestertown, MD. Details P3 13 - Poultry Mortality Composting Short Course and

Demonstration, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Wye REC, Queenstown,

MD. For registration information, 301-405-1198,

tscites@umd.edu, or visit Poultry Mortality. 13 - WIA Wednesday Webinar— Holy Hashtag! For infor -

mation and to register visit http://www.extension.umd.edu/

womeninag/webinars. 13 - Twilight Tour & Tasting, 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Boons-

boro, MD. For information and to register, visit

https://2018twilighttourtasting.eventbrite.com.

14 - Hydrangeas-The Big and the Bold Presentation, 6:30

p.m.-8:30 p.m., Elkton, MD. For information call 410-996-

5280. 16 - Caterpillar Clinic-ID and Control Workshop, 10:00

a.m.,-11:30 a.m., Elkton, MD. For information call 410-996-

5280.

17 - Father’s Day 20 - 2018 UD Weed Science Field Day, Georgetown, DE.

More details soon. 20 - Pest and Beneficial Insect Walk, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.,

UD Botanic Gardens, Newark, DE. 21-July 17 - Cover Crop Sign-Ups. Contact your local Soil

Conservation District Office. 27 - WIA Wednesday Webinar— Facebook Promotions.

For information and to register visit http://

www.extension.umd.edu/womeninag/webinars. 27 - Farmers’ Field Day at LESREC 2018, 9:00 a.m.-1:00

p.m., Salisbury, MD. Details P1

CALENDAR

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https://youtu.be/ZQZJmLsKDhc

https://youtu.be/jtIGFPfxsow

https://youtu.be/u03bVw0WnTg

REMAINING VIDEO

SEGMENTS

Volume 8, Issue 5 Page 4

The Next Generation Farm-

land Acquisition Program was

established by MARBIDCO

with the support of the State of

Maryland to help qualified

young or beginning farmers who have trouble entering or staying in the

agricultural profession because of relatively high farmland costs and a lack

of access to adequate financial capital to purchase farmland. The Next Gen

Program is a relatively speedy farmland conservation easement option pur-

chase program that is designed to help facilitate the transfer of farmland to a new generation of farmers, while effective-

ly helping to preserve the subject agricultural land from future development in a simultaneous fashion. The Next Gen Program is the “missing tool” in the financial programs toolbox that allows MARBIDCO to help

a certain cadre of young or beginning farmers who need access to good quality farmland. The Next Gen Program per-

mits MARBIDCO to provide a young or beginning farmer with the money needed to make a large down-payment on a

farm, in order to meet the equity contribution and projected cash flow requirements of a commercial lender, which then

permits the lender to make a loan to help finance the balance of a farm purchase. An additional benefit of this program

is that the farms that are being purchased are intended to be put on a path to be permanently preserved forever.

This free event is open to the public and will be held at the Talbot Free Library

May 3, 2018, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. It will include an overview of this new exciting “Next Gen” program as well as information on other potential options

that could help folks secure farmland or build their agricultural businesses. Come hear how area or-

ganizations could help the next generation make their dream

farm a reality. For questions, please contact Josh Hastings

at jhastings@eslc.org or 410-251-5268. Click this link to register

now!

For further information, contact the Maryland Department of Agriculture, Pesticide Regulation Section at 410-841-5710 or visit our website at www.mda.maryland.gov.

Volume 8, Issue 5 Page 5

Custom Hops Dryer designed by Ryan Rhodes

(Photo Credit: Nate P. Richards)

Richards)

A G R I C U L T U R A L W O R K E R P R O T E C T I O N S T A N D A R D S : A R E Y O U A N D Y O U R W O R K E R S P R O T E C T E D ?

M a r c h 2 7 , 2 0 1 8 S a r a h E v e r h a r t

The Maryland Risk Management Blog, is provided by the Maryland Crop Insurance

Project and the University of Mary-land's Agriculture Law Education Initiative. This

blog provides readers with information on legal and risk management issues im-

portant to Maryland agriculture, upcoming events, and new materials that may inter-

est readers. To subscribe to the blog, visit http://www.aglaw.umd.edu/. If you have

issues or thoughts on topics Ashley, Sarah, Wele, and Paul should address, click here

to send them.

The Worker Protection Standard (“WPS”) is a federal regulation issued

by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in 1992 under the

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act to protect farm-

workers from the effects of exposure to pesticides. The WPS requires

agricultural employers to take certain protective measures to reduce the

risk of illness or injury to workers and handlers resulting from expo-

sures to pesticides used to produce agricultural plants on agricultural

establishments (i.e., farms, forests, nurseries and enclosed space produc-

tion facilities such as greenhouses).

For the purposes of the WPS, workers are generally those performing

hand-labor tasks in pesticide-treated crops, such as harvesting, thinning,

and pruning. Handlers are usually those in direct contact with pesticides

such as mixing, loading, or applying pesticides.

EPA revised the WPS on November 2, 2015 to implement stronger

protections for those in contact with pesticides. While most of the re-

vised WPS requirements became effective on January 2, 2017, the fol-

lowing three requirements went into effect on January 2, 2018:

Pesticide safety training for workers and handlers must cover the revised and expanded content;

Posted pesticide safety information must meet the revised standards, and

Handlers must suspend applications if workers or other peo-ple are in the application exclusion zone

The WPS requires agricultural employers and commercial pesticide

handler employers to take steps, outlined in more detail below which

can be broken down to duties to inform and protect workers and han-

dlers about pesticide safety, and to mitigate exposures which occur.

Inform

Provide annual pesticide safety training for workers and han-dlers.

Provide access to specific information for workers and han-dlers, including:

• pesticide applications on the establishment;

• safety data sheets for pesticides applied on the establishment; and

• pesticide safety information (poster) which includes emergency information.

Provide access to labeling information for pesticide handlers and early-entry workers.

Notify workers about pesticide-treated areas so they can

avoid inadvertent exposures.

Allow for exchange of information between agricultural em-ployers and commercial pesticide handler employers.

Protect

Keep workers and other people out of areas being treated with pesticides.

Keep workers and other people away from pesticide applica-tion equipment (out of the application exclusion zones) dur-ing applications.

Require handlers to suspend applications if workers or peo-ple are near pesticide application equipment (in the applica-tion exclusion zone).

Keep workers out of areas under a restricted-entry interval (REI), with a few narrow exceptions.

Protect early-entry workers who are doing permitted tasks in pesticide-treated areas during an REI, including special in-structions and duties related to correct use of personal pro-tective equipment.

Monitor handlers using highly toxic pesticides.

Provide and maintain required personal protective equip-ment to handlers.

If a respirator is required by a pesticide label, provide the handler with a medical evaluation, fit test and respirator training.

Mitigate

Provide decontamination supplies including a sufficient sup-ply of water, soap, and towels for routine washing and emer-gency decontamination and eyewash systems for certain han-dlers.

Provide emergency assistance by making transportation available to a medical care facility in case of a pesticide injury or poisoning, and providing information about the applicable pesticide(s).

Trainers who provide WPS training must either be a certified pesticide

applicator or complete an EPA-approved Train-The-Trainer Course. A

table which provides examples of types of WPS training required for

workers or handlers can be found here.

Organic farmers and other farmers who choose not to use Restricted

Use Pesticides may not realize WPS requirements apply to them. Any

farmer who uses WPS-labelled products which includes many organic

pesticides, however, is responsible for following label instructions and

adhering to the WPS.

On March 28, 2018, the University of Delaware Pesticide Safety Educa-

tion Program will host a course that provides an update on the WPS and

qualifies as an EPA-approved Trainer-The-Trainer. For additional de-

tails or to register for the program, contact Kerry Richards via email

at kerryr@udel.edu or by calling 814-880–0013. In Maryland, the Mar-

yland Department of Agriculture’s Pesticide Regulation Section offers

technical assistance in implementing the WPS.

For more information on the WPS, check out the EPA’s Pesticide

Worker Protection Standard “How to Comply” Manual and the Quick

Reference Guide.

The University of Maryland, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources programs are open to all and will not discriminate against anyone because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation, or gender identity and expression. The Uni-versity of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Equal Access Programs. La Universidad de Maryland es una institución con Igualdad de Oportunidades de Empleo y con Igualdad de Acceso a Programas.

Contact your local UME Agriculture Educator:

Cecil County ~ Doris Behnke at 410-996-5280 or dbehnke@umd.edu

Kent County ~ Nate Richards at 410-778-1661 or nrichard@umd.edu

Queen Anne’s County ~ Jennifer Rhodes at 410-758-0166 or jrhodes@umd.edu

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US POSTAGE PD

PERMIT NO 16

ELKTON, MD

University of Maryland Extension

Cecil County

County Administration Building

200 Chesapeake Blvd., Suite 1500

Elkton, MD 21921

A special exhibit will be on display at the Museum of Eastern Shore Life that honors the World War II ser-vice and sacrifice by men and women from Queen Anne's County. The exhibit displays mementos and war souvenirs loaned by county residents along with stories associated with those items. The exhibit will open on May 4, 2018 and will close on Veterans Day, November 11, 2018.

The Museum is open the first Saturday of the month through October from 1 to 4 PM, during the Queen Anne's County Fair, and by request. Please contact us by phone at (410) 758 8640 to arrange a visit. The museum is located at 102 Dulin Clark Road in the county 4-H Park. (Route 18 and Dulin Clark Road). Our physical address is 102 Dulin Clark Road. Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/qamesl/.