NEWS
By Bob Gallagher | March 18, 2013
What industry gets a significant discount on property taxes funded by other taxpayers? Can you think of a business the price of whose products is supported by the treasury? Or a business that is paid from taxpayer funds not to make its products? Wouldn't you like to have a business that has access to cheap, guaranteed loans or casualty insurance subsidized by taxpayers? The only industry I know of that has available all of these entitlements is agriculture. Recently, the agriculture industry has profited from another publicly financed benefit.
EXPLORE
March 5, 2013
The Howard County Economic Development Authority is sponsoring several events in March. The Howard Tech Council networking event will be held Tuesday, March 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Union Jack's Columbia, 10400 Little Patuxent Parkway, in Columbia. The Central Maryland Women in Agriculture Forum is scheduled for Thursday, March 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Howard County Fairgrounds, 22120 Fairground Road, in West Friendship. Cost is $35 per person and includes lunch and light refreshments.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | January 30, 2013
Richard W. Ganoczy, a retired draftsman and Coast Guard veteran, died Jan 21 of cancer at Homestead of Sun Valley, a Sykesville assisted-living facility. He was 73. Mr. Ganoczy was born and raised in New York City, where he graduated from public schools. After serving in the Coast Guard from 1958 to 1964, Mr. Ganoczy moved to Washington, where he worked as a graphic artist for WTOP-TV. During the 1960s, he attended District of Columbia Teachers College. He later studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville and earned a bachelor's degree from Frostburg State University.
NEWS
By Richard Gorelick, The Baltimore Sun | January 22, 2013
You might not be thinking about farm-fresh produce in January, but the Maryland Department of Agriculture says now is the right time to check into joining a community-supported agriculture program. Members of a CSA pay an upfront subscription fee to farmers in return for a share of the season's harvest, which is usually provided weekly. Many CSAs deliver to central locations for pickup on a certain day of the week. Still others have special rates if the subscriber helps with the harvest on the farm.
NEWS
By Janene Holzberg, For The Baltimore Sun | January 18, 2013
A second straight winter of unnaturally warm weather so far in Central Maryland is extending the life of a handful of crops at one Howard County farm and forcing a rite of spring to occur early. Only last week on the rolling pastures of Sharp's at Waterford Farm in Brookeville, lambs cavorted near their mothers. Ears of viable popcorn lay scattered amid flattened, yellowed cornstalks. Nearby, brussels sprouts remained ripe for the picking. Still, even in the mildest of these colder months, farm-fresh foods remain scarce.
NEWS
By Joseph L. Kroart III | December 27, 2012
Last week, a federal judge in Baltimore issued a verdict in a lawsuit filed by an environmental group against an Eastern Shore farming family and Perdue. After nearly three years of litigation, Judge William Nickerson ruled that the evidence presented by the Waterkeeper Alliance did not demonstrate conclusively that contaminated water samples taken from the Pocomoke River could be traced to an adjacent poultry farm in Berlin owned by Alan and Kristin Hudson. The outcome was recognized by many as a victory for farmers and the poultry industry and as a setback for environmental groups interested in improving the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.