Dept of Agriculture Deadline for Planting Cover Crops Extended to Nov. 12

[newsBot]

Press Release: Maryland Dept. of Agriculture

ANNAPOLIS, MD – Due to wet conditions across many parts of the state, the Maryland Department of Agriculture has extended the November 5 planting deadline by one week for farmers who signed up for grants to plant fall cover crops through the Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share (MACS) Program. Farmers now have until November 12 Read the Rest...

[ Read the rest of the article here ]

 

[TPD]

This is BS. Planting cover crops late does not accomplish what they are intended to do which is absorb nutrients before the winter freeze. Planting them in November does not give them enough time to develop a root system to absorb the nutrients before the temperatures turn cold and the plant goes dormant. A fleecing of the taxpayer imo.