ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 22, 2011) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture is asking farmers\u2019 markets vendors, market managers and consumers to complete an online survey, funded by USDA and done in cooperation with the University of Maryland, to help assess the economic impact of Maryland Farmer\u2019s Markets, increase sales at farmers markets, and explore the feasibility of forming a statewide farmers market association.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to receive these USDA grant awards to do this research,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance.\u00a0 \u201cThese projects will enable our State to increase our \u2018buy local\u2019 initiatives and develop more efficient and market-oriented ways to benefit our agricultural sector and support our local economy to keep Maryland smart, green and growing.”<\/p>\n
The USDA awarded grants to Maryland supporting two agricultural market research and demonstration projects in 2010. These grants, provided under the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP), will explore new, innovative and results-oriented approaches to marketing U.S. food and agricultural products and to improve the efficiency and performance of the marketing system.<\/p>\n
These surveys for market managers, farmers\/vendors, and consumers can be found on theMaryland\u2019s Best website<\/a>\u00a0under the \u201cFarmers Market Survey\u201d tab or directly through these links:<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For Market Managers<\/a>: (accepting submissions until July 1) The results of the surveys will be available in October of 2011; please take the time to fill out this short survey and help improve our farmers markets today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (June 22, 2011) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture is asking farmers\u2019 markets vendors, market managers and consumers to complete an online survey, funded by USDA and done in cooperation with the University of Maryland, to help assess the economic impact of Maryland Farmer\u2019s Markets, increase sales at farmers markets, and explore the Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[915,172],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-farmers-market","tag-survey"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For Market Farmers\/Vendors<\/a>: (accepting submissions until July 1)
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0For Consumers<\/a>: (accepting submissions until September 1)<\/p>\n