The Maryland Grains Producer Utilization Board (MGPUB) collaborated with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, and University of Maryland Extension to host the Choptank Symposium. This symposium took a closer look at the Choptank River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, focusing on the current state of the river, practices employed by the agricultural community to mitigate impacts on water quality, and how these practices can be applied in other watersheds. The symposium brought 250 people from the agricultural, environmental and research communities coming together to explore a common concern. In the process, Maryland farmers who wanted to better understand the science on how their farming practices can impact the Bay also discovered they could build better relationships with the environmental community.
