{"id":26212,"date":"2022-01-06T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26212"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:55:10","slug":"2022-marylands-best-expo-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/01\/06\/2022-marylands-best-expo-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Maryland\u2019s Best Expo Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland\u2019s Best Expo originally scheduled for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2021\/11\/23\/marylands-best-expo-scheduled-for-january-19\/\">January 19<\/a> at the Naval Academy Marine Corps Football Stadium has been postponed due to public health concerns related to increased transmission of COVID-19. The event will be rescheduled for a later date in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Refunds will be issued to producers who have already registered for the event. The department will include the registered businesses in a business directory that will be mailed to buyers and producers. Farmers and producers who would like to have their contact information included in the directory should sign up on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandsbest.maryland.gov\/marylands-best-expo-on-1-19\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s Best website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by January 26. The directory will also be available online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland\u2019s Best Expo is an annual meeting of farmers, producers, seafood companies, and buyers from grocery stores, restaurants, and institutions that attracts more than 300 attendees. The department will announce the new date for the expo as soon as it is rescheduled. Please check <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MDA\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandsbest.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s Best website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information or questions, please contact Karen Fedor at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:karen.fedor@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">karen.fedor@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or (410) 841-5773.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&amp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s Best <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDsBest?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MDsBest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland\u2019s Best Expo originally scheduled for January 19 at the Naval Academy Marine Corps Football Stadium has been postponed due to public health concerns related to increased transmission of COVID-19. The event will be rescheduled for a later date in 2022.\u00a0 Refunds will be issued to producers who have already registered for<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/01\/06\/2022-marylands-best-expo-postponed\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26212","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\/26212","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26214,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions\/26214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}