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Maryland Department of Agriculture 2007 Annual Report Celebrate Maryland Agriculture! The People | The Land | The Community Maryland Department of Agriculture 2007 Annual Report Mission Statement To provide leadership and support to agriculture and the citizens of Maryland by conducting regulatory, service and educational activities that assure consumer confidence, protect the environment, and promote agriculture. Vision Statement To achieve excellence in programs and in services that preserve and protect agricultural resources and the environment, promote profitable agriculture and consumer confidence, and enhance the quality of life for all Marylanders. Governor Martin O’Malley Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown Secretary Roger L. Richardson Deputy Secretary Earl F. Hance Wayne A. Cawley, Jr. Building 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis, Maryland 21401-7080 Baltimore/Annapolis (410) 841-5700 Washington Metro Area (301) 261-8106 MD Relay Service (TTY Users) (800) 735-2258 Toll Free (800) 492-5590 Fax (410) 841-5914 www.mda.state.md.us Table of Contents Office of the Secretary ....................................................... 5 Maryland Agricultural Commission........................................ 5 Office of the Attorney General ............................................ 5 Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation ......................6 The Office of Administrative Services ......................................7 Public Information and Outreach Offices ..................................8 USDA/National Agricultural Statistics Service ..............................9 Information Technology Services .........................................10 Office of Resource Conservation............................................12 Marketing, Animal Industries, and Consumer Services....................21 Marketing Services .......................................................21 International Marketing and Trade Development ..........................23 Seafood Marketing and Aquaculture Development ........................25 Animal Health Section ...................................................28 The Maryland Horse Industry Board......................................31 Weights and Measures ....................................................34 Food Quality Assurance ..................................................37 Office of Plant Industries and Pest Management ..........................39 Mosquito Control ........................................................39 Pesticide Regulation Section ..............................................47 State Chemist Section ....................................................50 Turf and Seed ............................................................57 Forest Pest Management..................................................60 Plant Protection and Weed Management ..................................64 Budget Allocations Fiscal Year 2007 ........................................73 Staff Directory.................................................................74 Employees of the Quarter, 2007 ..............................inside back cover Front cover: Main photo: Albert Schramm. Insets left to right: Ryan, Jenny and Chris Rhodes, Queen Anne’s County – poultry (Photo: Mark Odell). Ed Boyce and Sarah O’Herron with son Dennis Boyce, Black Ankle Vineyards, Frederick County – wine grapes (Photo:Ted Hull). Logan and Alecia Bender, children of Robert and Alice Bender, Cove Run Farm, Garrett County – dairy and agritourism (Photo: Mark Odell). Back cover: Main photo: Governor’s Photography Office. Insets left to right: Peggy Campanella, left, Harris Orchard, Anne Arundel County – fruit (Photo: Tom Nappi). Pam Saul, Montgomery County – equine (Photo: Edwin Remsburg). Bernie Kohl, Angelica Nurseries, Inc. – Kent County (Photo: Anthony DiPanise). 1 Maryland Highlights for 2006 Numbers of Farms 12,000 Average Size Farm - Acres 170 Land in Farms - Acres 2,035,000 Gross Farm Income $2,007,170,000 Farm Production Expenses $1,051,932,000 Total Net Farm Income $594,569,000 Gross Farm Income Per Farm $167,264 Net Farm Income Per Farm $49,547 Poultry, Livestock and Products Commodity Marketing Production Unit Cash Receipts1 Broilers 1,228,800,000 lbs. $534,886,000 Milk 1,161,000,000 lbs. 186,624,000 Cattle & Calves 83,089,000 lbs. 81,842,000 Hogs 20,126,000 lbs. 6,920,000 Eggs 798,000,000 eggs 29,907,000 Sheep and Lambs 1,225,000 lbs. 1,018,000 Total Poultry, Livestock & Products $872,143,000 Crops Commodity Acres Harvested Production Unit Cash Receipts1 Corn for Grain 425,000 60,350,000 bu. $120,785,000 Soybeans 465,000 15,810,000 bu. 86,234,000 Corn for Silage 60,000 1,020,000 tons --- Wheat 125,000 8,500,000 bu. 29,970,000 Hay, All 205,000 569,000 tons 30,943,000 Barley 32,000 2,784,000 bu. 4,163,000 Potatoes 2,900 928,000 cwt. 8,854,000 Vegetables — — 63,229,000 Greenhouse/Nursery — — 355,479,000 Apples — 34,000,000 lbs. 6,164,000 Peaches — 3,650 tons 3,739,000 Total All Crops2 $725,556,000 Total All Commodities2 $1,597,700,000 1 Preliminary estimates by the Economic Research Service, USDA. 2 Total includes other commodities not published separately. 3 Excludes potatoes. Counties Ranked by Production Commodity 1 2 3 4 5 Corn, Grain Queen Anne’s Kent Worcester Talbot Caroline Soybeans Queen Anne’s Dorchester Talbot Kent Caroline Barley Caroline Kent Dorchester Frederick Queens Anne’s Wheat Queen Anne’s Caroline Frederick Kent Carroll All Hay Frederick Garrett Carroll Washington Harford Milk Frederick Washington Carroll Kent Cecil 2 Dear Friends, t has been my great honor to work with Secretary Roger Richardson, Deputy Secretary Buddy Hance, and each and every one of you over the past year to advance and enhance agriculture in Iour State. The Maryland that we love today has been shaped throughout history by its greatest stewards, our farmers. To continue that legacy of strong Maryland agriculture, our Administration is working to come together in collaboration with you. Not only because it is important, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because our future depends on it. We have made great strides despite the difficulties we face together, including the devastating drought, constant growth pressures and our nation’s turbulent economy. We look forward to continuing to make progress by protecting the priorities of our people across this great State: strengthening our middle class, our family-owned businesses and family farms, as well as our commitment to public safety and public education, and expanding opportunity for more people rather than fewer. Looking ahead to Maryland’s future, we must also work to make our state more sustainable – for the land, the water, the air and the Bay that we share. Together, we must upgrade water and wastewater treatment plants, protect and expand forest cover and land preservation, and improve best management practice research and implementation. That better future that we seek for our children and our grandchildren is also firmly dependant upon our vital farming traditions. So we must work in collaboration to ensure that our young people can make a living from the same land that has been in the hands of the generations that came before them. In these challenging economic times, our State During a visit to the Holland family’s Chesapeake Bay Farm market in Berlin, Governor O’Malley learns about their venture making and selling ice cream and must turn toward its strengths, and farming has cheese from the milk they produce at their Worcester County dairy. always been one of our greatest. You deserve a government that works as hard as you do – that partners with you to make our farms more profitable, to make our State more sustainable, and to provide for our kids the opportunity to carry this timeless tradition forward. Benjamin Franklin called farming a continuous miracle. So to keep that essential part of our state, that miracle, strong in Maryland, in order to help you do your important work, our State has a responsibility to make farming viable and ever more profitable. Thank you for allowing me to serve you. Together, we are moving Maryland agriculture forward to a better future. Sincerely, Martin O’Malley Governor 3 s we move into 2008, let’s take some time to celebrate agriculture and its importance to our lives. Farming is at the root of who we are today and who we will be in the future. These are A exciting times for Maryland agriculture. In the past year, we welcomed Governor Martin O’Malley who is deeply invested in seeing that agriculture remains a strong part of our economy and that Maryland farming is profitable. Together, the Governor and MDA advocated for Maryland’s agricultural interests in the 2007 Farm Bill and continue to follow it. At the same time, we have been working aggressively on the vast majority of recommendations from the Statewide Plan for Agricultural Policy and Resource Management (Ag Forum) and the O’Malley Transition report. We have already accomplished more than one third of the 109 recommendations, improving land preservation, farm profitability and agricultural research. In addition, MDA is working with partners to pursue the proposals of task forces to sustain the dairy industry, open markets for biofuels, address agricultural tax structures, and expand the use of crop insurance. As an industry, we responded rapidly and strongly to the dual challenges of the gypsy moth and emerald ash borer infestations, as well as the severe drought. Together with local governments, this year the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation permanently preserved an additional
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