CLEVELAND, Miss.–The decision to cancel this year’s Delta Ag Expo set for Thursday at the Bolivar County Expo Center, was a tough one to make, says organizer and chairman John Michael Blankenship.
“It was too much to coordinate,” he said Wednesday. The decision was made Tuesday in a scramble to try and find ways to salvage the event, which had a full agenda of speakers to benefit Delta farmers and growers. Getting vendors from Jackson and other places proved too difficult, making the event one of the more significant one-off victims of the winter weather.
“It takes about a year to plan it out each time,” he said. “It’s one of those things where we wanted to push it but we pretty much had to make the decision that it’s canceled and we’ll try again next year.”
Blankenship said the attendees and the community are missing out, and so are the vendors.
“They’re coming to exhibit. They’re coming to showcase their new lines of products, innovations and any new technologies they have and they didn’t get to do that this year.”
He said next year’s event will still be the 50th event, though it will be held on the 51st year.
