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- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (State agency; operator of the Pennsylvania Farm Show) · Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 3 Pa. C.S. ch. 23? (Farm Show Complex and the Pennsylvania Farm Show under the Department of Agriculture) (pin to be verified); Governor Wolf's gathering limits (PA State file)
- Issued
- 2020-11-01 Nov. 1, 2020
- Effective
- Announcement in Aug. 2020 (per the page's reference to the 'August announcement of a virtual 2021 PA Farm Show'); show dates Jan. 9-16, 2021 (read as 2020-11-01)
- End
- 2021-01-16 (the virtual show dates); the 2022 show was held in person (read as 2021-01-16)
- In force
- Nov. 1, 2020 to Jan. 16, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capEvents and venues
- Addressees
- exhibitors, vendors, livestock competitors, food-court vendors and contractors of the Pennsylvania Farm Show
- Functions reached
- EVT events (a Q1 2021 event of about 500,000 attendees cancelled in person)
- MK exhibition and vendor sales
- CB attendees
- GS contractors and food-court vendors (the Farm Show food court is run by commodity groups)
- LG Harrisburg-area hotels
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State agriculture, parks and wildlife agencies AGY-ST-AGRICULTURE-PARKS-WILDLIFE
Operative words
2021 PA Farm Show... Secretary Russell Redding announced today that [the department is offering new] opportunities for the virtual 2021 Pennsylvania Farm Show.... [Secretary Redding] Previews Virtual 2021 Farm [Show... following the] August announcement of a virtual 2021 PA Farm Show.
Enforcement
Decision of the State department operating the show; the Governor's indoor-gathering limits carried 35 P.S. § 521.20 penalties
Notes
The Farm Show is a Q1 event; the department's August 2020 decision reached exhibitors' and vendors' Q3-Q4 2020 planning and Q1 2021 revenue. The department's August 2020 release (media.pa.gov) was not separately retrieved.
Retrieval noteFile date is the capture date; the capture's text is fragmentary (release headlines and teasers). Bracketed words summarize text between quoted fragments.