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  THE HONORABLE EARL F. HANCE

SECRETARY, MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

 
Calvert County
Appointed May, 2009 
 

Fourth generation Southern Maryland farmer, Earl F. "Buddy" Hance was selected as deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture in February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served most recently as president of the Maryland Farm Bureau, chairman of the Maryland State Tobacco Authority, and as chairman of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Commission among other farm and community activities.

Hance also is active in numerous local, state, and national farm and civic organizations. At the national level, he represents the Northeastern states on the American Farm Bureau Federation and is a member of the Nationwide Insurance Company Board Council. In Maryland , he serves as a member of the Rural Maryland Council, the Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department, the Patuxent River Commission, the Southern Maryland Tourism Council, the Maryland State Tobacco Authority, the Calvert Farmland Trust, the Board of the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and the Board of the Calvert County Farm Bureau.

A former tobacco farmer, Deputy Secretary Hance and his family farm 400 acres of corn and soybeans and operate several commercial greenhouses. Buddy and his wife Robin live in Port Republic , Calvert County and have three children.

 

 

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