ANNAPOLIS, MD (Jan. 18, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) is holding a trade show style meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25, for Maryland growers and producers to have the opportunity to display their products and buyers have a chance to speak with them one-on-one.<\/p>\n
There are more than 300 registrants including produce farmers, grocery stores, restaurants, chefs, schools, distributors, economic development officials, hotels, Maryland Cooperative Extension and regional agricultural marketing officials.\u00a0 Visitwww.MarylandsBest.net<\/a>\u00a0for more details including a\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0from last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n Rising consumer demand for healthy, locally-grown fruit and vegetables is sparking more interest in Maryland products from commercial purchasing agents. Maryland\u2019s farmers play an important role in providing local, healthy food, saving open farmland, and expanding rural economies. WHAT: WHEN: WHERE: ANNAPOLIS, MD (Jan. 18, 2010) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) is holding a trade show style meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25, for Maryland growers and producers to have the opportunity to display their products and buyers have a chance to speak with them one-on-one. There are more than 300 registrants including produce farmers, 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,"_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":[219,5,205],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-growers","tag-meeting","tag-producers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMDA\u2019s marketing division has several on-going programs to link farmers with regional buyers and local consumers: the Maryland\u2019s Best branding program, farmers\u2019 market development, and the Farmers\u2019 Market Nutrition Programs.<\/p>\n
\nMDA will hold a trade show style meeting to provide opportunities for Maryland growers and producers to increase sales by introducing them directly to food purchasing decision-makers.<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, January 25, 2010
\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nAnnapolis Elks Lodge
\n2517 Solomons Island Road
\nEdgewater, MD 21037<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"