{"id":6254,"date":"2013-08-14T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:33:28","slug":"mda-to-highlight-agencys-40-years-of-service-to-consumers-during-maryland-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/08\/14\/mda-to-highlight-agencys-40-years-of-service-to-consumers-during-maryland-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA to Highlight Agency\u2019s 40 Years of Service to Consumers During  Maryland State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/08\/14\/mda-to-highlight-agencys-40-years-of-service-to-consumers-during-maryland-state-fair\/attachment\/sfair_veg1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?fit=960%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.65&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SCH-I510&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1346254561&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.03&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.06665&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SFair_Veg1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?fit=760%2C1013&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6409\" alt=\"SFair_Veg1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/SFair_Veg1.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 19px\">\u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) celebrates its 40<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 19px\">th<\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 19px\"> anniversary as an agency of state government this year, and the agency will highlights its important work during the 132<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 19px\">nd <\/sup><span style=\"line-height: 19px\">Maryland State Fair, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2 at the State Fair Grounds in Timonium \u2013 also known as the 11 Best Days of Summer!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">MDA has a diverse portfolio of functions and duties \u2013 from working with farmers to ensure sound farmland management practices to monitoring the accuracy of weights and measures to controlling invasive plants and pests to ensuring animal health. MDA will showcase many of these services with exhibits offering several kid-friendly activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cWe invite everyone who goes to the State Fair this year to come spend some time with us in the Farm and Garden Building to learn more about Maryland agriculture and what MDA does to protect and improve the quality of life for all Marylanders every day,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance.\u00a0 \u201cWe will also have a lot of family friendly activities going on to make your visit with us fun and enjoyable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The Maryland State Fair will celebrate \u201cAgriculture Day at the Fair\u201d on Thursday, Aug. 29.\u00a0 The day will start off with an invitation-only luncheon and tour of the fairgrounds with Secretary Hance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The 11-day festival will feature thousands of home arts and agricultural exhibits, daily livestock and horse shows, a wide variety of midway rides and games, thoroughbred horse racing and national entertainment. For more State Fair information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandstatefair.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">www.marylandstatefair.com<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">For is a list of events and activities that MDA will offer during the Fair, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/08\/14\/mda-sponsored-activities-at-the-2013-state-fair\/\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u00a0\u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) celebrates its 40th anniversary as an agency of state government this year, and the agency will highlights its important work during the 132nd Maryland State Fair, Aug. 23 to Sept. 2 at the State Fair Grounds in Timonium \u2013 also known as the 11 Best Days<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2013\/08\/14\/mda-to-highlight-agencys-40-years-of-service-to-consumers-during-maryland-state-fair\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[653],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-maryland-state-fair"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}