USDA Partners With Landowners to Help Chesapeake Bay

USDA is partnering with landowners in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland to help protect the Chesapeake Bay by keeping farmland from being developed and reducing runoff. “Every track of farmland that is developed in the bay watershed results in lost environmental benefits and poor water quality for the region,’ said Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. “Agriculture is not the problem; agriculture is part of the solution for the Chesapeake Bay.”