{"id":24078,"date":"2020-02-11T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=24078"},"modified":"2020-03-10T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T19:20:38","slug":"registration-open-for-2020-maryland-farmers-market-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2020\/02\/11\/registration-open-for-2020-maryland-farmers-market-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTPONED: 2020 Maryland Farmers Market Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>UPDATE (3\/10\/20): The 2020 Maryland Farmers Market Conference has been postponed. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2020\/03\/10\/2020-maryland-farmers-market-conference-postponed\/\">More info<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">\u2013<b> <\/b>Registration is now open for the 2020 Maryland Farmers Market Conference being held on Wednesday, March 18 from\u00a08 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u00a0at the Maryland Department of Agriculture,\u00a050 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">Conference sessions will include topics on merchant services; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers\u2019 Market Nutrition Program (FMNP); the Senior Farmers\u2019 Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP); farm to market training; and more. The department\u2019s Weights &amp; Measures program will offer equipment certifications for farmers who bring their market scales to the conference. Vendors and sponsors will have booths in the Exhibit Hall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">Interested farmers and market managers are encouraged to register early, as space is limited. Registration costs $35 and includes a locally-sourced continental breakfast and lunch. Registration information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/events.egov.com\/eventreg\/MD\/registrant.htm?action=new&amp;_event=2020annualfarmersmarketconference\">online<\/a>. In the event of inclement weather, the conference will be rescheduled for Monday, March 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">For questions regarding registration or the program in general, please contact Weida Stoecker, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:weida.stoecker@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">weida.stoecker@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">or (410) 841-5791. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 13.6pt;background: white\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (3\/10\/20): The 2020 Maryland Farmers Market Conference has been postponed. More info ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013 Registration is now open for the 2020 Maryland Farmers Market Conference being held on Wednesday, March 18 from\u00a08 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u00a0at the Maryland Department of Agriculture,\u00a050 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis. Conference sessions will include topics on merchant<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2020\/02\/11\/registration-open-for-2020-maryland-farmers-market-conference\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24152,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions\/24152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}