Cost Share Programs (MACS)
The Maryland Cost Share Program helps producers pay for best management practices to be installed on 
farmland. MACS will pay up to 87.5% of installation cost of the following practices for qualified landowners:
- Waste Storage
- Dead Bird Composting Facility
- Heavy Use Area Protection
- Roof Runoff Management System
- Spring Development
- Trough or Tank
- Riparian Buffer
- Grassed Waterway
- Winter Cover Crop
- Field Border
- Filter Strip
- Stream Fencing
- Stream Crossing
- Critical Area Planting
If you would like to know if you are qualified or would like more information on these conservation practices, or would like a new or updated conservation plan, please give us a call at 410-822-1583 ext. 3. and ask for Dave, Steve or Levin.