Sean Clougherty

1 week ago | americanfarm.com | Sean Clougherty

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Sign-up for the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s cover crop incentive program runs from June 23 through July 17, at local soil conservation districts. The department said it has made several changes to the program from last year to better align with the state’s budget projections and streamline it for use by farmers. In a June 18 webinar to rollout this year’s program, Hans Schmidt, MDA assistant secretary for resource conservation reviewed changes the department made.

1 week ago | americanfarm.com | Sean Clougherty

DOVER, Del. — Delaware Farm Bureau cheered a legislative amendment that removes the agriculture department from a bill seeking to increase fines for commercial polluters. The initial bill, introduced by Rep. Larry Lambert, D — Dist. 7, seeks to change the range of fines for nutrient management violations from $25 to $1,000 to $250 to $5,000 and raises the maximum per day penalty for continued violations from $10,000 to $40,000.

2 weeks ago | americanfarm.com | Sean Clougherty

LAUREL, DEL. — Walking through the “Tractor Barn Museum” on her Sussex County farm, Shirley O’Neal is very much aware of the amount of items she and her late husband Louis O’Neal have collected. “As you can see, we hold on to everything,” she said. “When you’re hanging things from the ceiling, you know you’ve got enough.”The couple collected all types of items over their 65 years together. Some is farm-related, some mark Laurel’s history and others just because they’re interesting.

2 weeks ago | americanfarm.com | Sean Clougherty

It was a sunny afternoon but Steve Breeding was in a dark place. For weeks in the spring of last year, he had been cleaning up rubble that used to be a chicken house he converted to raise sheep on a Seaford, Del., farm he purchased a few years ago. When the fire broke out on Easter Sunday, there were some 200 sheep in the barn and they were a week or so away from lambing. All the animals were lost in the fire.

4 weeks ago | shorehomeandgarden.com | Sean Clougherty |DeeDee Wood |Leslie Milby

With their bright color, summertime scent and refreshing taste, citrus trees are a tempting pick when seeing them at your local nursery. Christy Little, owner of A Little Farm and Nursery in Stevensville, says while it isn’t all...