Editing Baltimore County, Maryland (section)

==Economy==
Among the county's major employers are [[MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center]]<ref name="Post200MajorEmployers">{{cite news|url=https://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/top-dc-companies/2011/sector/major-employers/286/|title=Post 200 – Major Employers|year=2011|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=July 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802213259/http://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/top-dc-companies/2011/sector/major-employers/286/|archive-date=August 2, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> on the east side in [[Rossville, Maryland|Rossville]], the [[Social Security Administration]], the national headquarters of which are in [[Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland|Woodlawn]], and [[The Black & Decker Corporation]], in [[Towson, Maryland|Towson]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Baltimore County: Celebrating a Legacy 1659–2009|last=Lanman|first=Barry A.|publisher=Baltimore County Historical Society|year=2009|isbn=978-1-60743-522-8|location=Cockeysville, Maryland|page=178}}</ref> As of 2009, the county's workforce totaled 410,100, with 25% employed in the fields of education, health and human services, 10% in retailing, and less than 1% in agriculture.<ref name="Lanman">Lanman, p. 115.</ref>

===Top employers===
According to the county's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref name="CAFR">{{cite web|url=http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/Budget/11cafr/fy11statistical.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309132358/http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/Budget/11cafr/fy11statistical.pdf |archive-date=March 9, 2012 |url-status=live|title=Baltimore County, Maryland Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for the Year ended June 30, 2011}}</ref> the top employers in the county are concentrated in the government, medical and educational fields. The only commercial entity is Erickson Living:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
|[[Social Security Administration]]/[[Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services|CMS]]
|14,948
|-
|2
|[[Baltimore County Public Schools]]
|14,608
|-
|3
|Baltimore County
|8,429
|-
|4
|[[MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center]]
|3,500
|-
|5
|[[Towson University]]
|3,344
|-
|6
|[[Greater Baltimore Medical Center]]
|3,331
|-
|7
|[[St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson, Maryland)|St. Joseph Medical Center]]
|3,330
|-
|8
|[[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]
|3,258
|-
|9
|[[Erickson Living]]
|3,070
|-
|10
|[[The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital]]
|2,380
|}

===Agriculture===
The [[University of Maryland Extension]] system provides {{visible anchor|Extension|text=[[agricultural extension|Extension]]}} for the county.<ref name="Extension-UMD">{{cite web | title=Baltimore County | website=[[University of Maryland Extension]] | url=http://extension.umd.edu/locations/baltimore-county | access-date=June 30, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Extension-gov">{{cite web | url=http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/departments/coopextension/ | title=University of Maryland Extension - Baltimore County | website=[[Baltimore County]]}}</ref> The [[Maryland Farm Bureau|state Farm Bureau]] oversees the {{visible anchor|Farm Bureau|text=County Farm Bureau}} here.<ref name="Farm-Bur">{{cite web | title=Baltimore County Farm Bureau | website=[[Maryland Farm Bureau]] | date=December 16, 2017 | url=http://www.mdfarmbureau.com/baltimore/ | access-date=June 30, 2022}}</ref>

{{visible anchor|Switchgrass}} (''[[Panicum virgatum]]'') is a potential [[energy crop]] and soil improver however it does not compete well with some warm-season annual [[grass weed]]s and [[broadleaf weed]]s here.<ref name="Sadeghpour-et-al-2014-bundle">
   {{Unbulleted list citebundle
      |{{cite journal | last1=Osipitan | first1=O. Adewale | last2=Dille | first2=J. Anita | last3=Assefa | first3=Yared | last4=Knezevic | first4=Stevan Z. | title=Cover Crop for Early Season Weed Suppression in Crops: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | journal=[[Agronomy Journal]] | publisher=[[American Society of Agronomy|ASA]] + [[Crop Science Society of America|CSSA]] + [[Soil Science Society of America|SSSA]] ([[Wiley publishing|Wiley]]) | volume=110 | issue=6 | year=2018 | issn=0002-1962 | doi=10.2134/agronj2017.12.0752 | pages=2211–2221 | s2cid=56275428| doi-access=free | bibcode=2018AgrJ..110.2211O }}
      |{{cite journal | last1=Sadeghpour | first1=Amir | last2=Hashemi | first2=Masoud | last3=DaCosta | first3=Michelle | last4=Gorlitsky | first4=Leryn E. | last5=Jahanzad | first5=Emad | last6=Herbert | first6=Stephen J. | title=Assessing winter cereals as cover crops for weed control in reduced-tillage switchgrass establishment | journal=[[Industrial Crops and Products]] | publisher=[[Elsevier]] | volume=62 | year=2014 | issn=0926-6690 | doi=10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.09.027 | pages=522–525 | s2cid=98400036}}
   }}
</ref> Sadeghpour ''et al.'', 2014 finds that various [[winter cereal]]s including [[oat]] and [[rye]] are helpful [[cover crop|covers]] for [[weed control]], rye moreso than oat.<ref name="Sadeghpour-et-al-2014-bundle" /> However they still found that herbicide (specifically [[atrazine]] or [[quinclorac]]) is needed as supplemental weed control.<ref name="Sadeghpour-et-al-2014-bundle" /> Osipitan ''et al.'', 2018<ref name="Sadeghpour-et-al-2014-bundle" /> believe this result generalizes to early season cover cropping for weed control in general.