NEWS &VIEWS You Can Use Is Anne Arundel Increasingly Horse UN-Friendly?


Anne Arundel County Bill # 75–16 Zoning and Composting Facilities On November 21, 2016, the Anne Arundel


County Council held a hearing on Bill #75- 16, which would permit in Rural Agricultural Districts state-of-the-art composting facilities designed to accept horse manure mixed with a small amount of food waste - and county residents are bitterly divided. Steuart Pittman testifi ed that the county council should vote in favor of zoning to allow such facilities. T e Pittman family owns and operates the 550-acre Dodon Farm in Anne Arundel. Recently elected as vice-president of the Maryland Horse Council, Steuart also serves as a director of the Anne Arundel County Farm Bureau and is a District Supervisor of Anne Arundel County Soil Conservation. T e fi nal vote will be in December, so check equiery.com for an update! T e Anne Arundel County Council needs to show its support for its small farmers by supporting this bill, regardless of pressure from the non-farming rural residents. A top priority of the Maryland horse


industry (via activities such as the Maryland Horse Council Farm Stewardship Committee, working closely with the Chesapeake Bay


Foundation and other environmental advocates), has been to facilitate the establishment of regional manure composting facilities. Large horse farms have the space and equipment to compost and spread manure in accordance with the Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) and annual reports that they fi le with the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA). Small farms must remove manure from their premises.


In 2014, environmental


advocates and the agricultural community collaborated to establish state regulations for the permitting by


Maryland


Department of the continued...


Getting social with The Equiery!


Facebook (www.Facebook.com/T eEquiery) We gained 57 new followers of T e Equiery on Facebook last


month! Welcome to our new online readers! We hope you will add us to your list of Facebook favorites and stay in touch! For a Top Five list of posts, we have the following for November:


#1 - In the lead position, with a following of 5,800 Facebook readers, was a video posted on 11/12 of Judy Smith from Ijamsville and her mule, Sweet Sue, competing in Western Dressage at the Loch Moy FADS show. #2 - Not far behind was a post from 10/31, announcing our November cover, which was followed by 3,700 of our fans. #3 - In third place was a video of young T omas and George Webster having a ball on the Equicizer at the RRP T oroughbred Makeover in Kentucky. Posted on 10/29, it had a following of 2,800. #4 - Fourth place went to our own Facebook ad; a reminder about our Equiery classifi ed deadline on 11/15. T is post was followed by 2,600 readers, showing us that advertising in T e Equiery, which off ers you complimentary Facebook posts of your ad, is highly eff ective! #5 - Fifth and fi nal for last month was a photo we posted on location at Barn Night (10/27 at the Washington International Show) of the huge crowd of local stables who came to participate. T is post was followed by 2,500 of our readers.


Did You Know? Did you know that if


you purchase an Equiery Events/Product/Services eBlast, that it pushes to our Facebook page, as well? YES! T is digital product, designed exclusively for our print advertising customers, not only reaches our database of 8,500+ emails for Equiery readers, advertisers, and friends, but also our audience of 4,459 (and growing) Facebook followers.


Twitter (@equiery) It seems that


@Sag amoreR acing continues to be very popular on Twitter,


claiming our


most retweeted post again this month. On November


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This illustration of Anne Arundel’s manure prohibitions on trail riding manure, as of press time, had a reach of over 2,400 on Equiery’s Facebook page.


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