TALBOT COUNTY — Maryland's 2026–27 cover-crop window at the Talbot Soil Conservation District ran June 22 through July 17. It is closed. Approval letters are the next mail.
Base pay is $35 an acre, up to $65 with add-ons for the practices the state wants most. New this round is a cheaper commodity option, capped at $25 an acre in select watersheds — no extra bonuses, no fall manure, no commercial nutrients before March 1, 2027, and a ten-acre minimum.
On the state's August 11 Bay scoreboard, Agriculture Secretary Kevin Atticks said every cover crop is a producer investing in the Bay as well as the farm. That is the useful line in a long press release. Talbot's leftover nitrogen will not be solved by another sanctuary plaque. It will be solved, or not, in these fields this winter.
If you farm and missed the window, call the district before you assume there is no late path. If you do not farm, this is still your creek.
Source: Talbot Soil Conservation District
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