Make a date with FarmFest

By Fiona Gowers

Queensland’s biggest primary industry business event, the three-day FarmFest field days, will return this year from 6 to 8 June.

ACM Rural Events - the organisers of Elders FarmFest - has taken a steady stream of enquiry since last year’s successful sales event concluded.

General manager Kate Nugent said the overall outlook in Australian agriculture was one of “high optimism”.

She said the feedback received from many agri-manufacturers and service providers across Queensland and other states had positioned this year’s Elders FarmFest in a positive light.

“I am certain we will see an even stronger showing of interest and support from farmers and people on the land, on the back of a record breaking visitation last year,” Ms Nugent said.

Elders FarmFest is located on its own dedicated site in Kingsthorpe, just 20 kilometres west of Toowoomba, in the heart of the Darling Downs, one of Australia’s richest agricultural regions.

The event is designed to offer display promotional and sales opportunities to all agribusinesses, from big farm machinery, tractors, tillage and irrigation equipment to pumps and power tools.

Ms Nugent said “more than ever” FarmFest was recognised as playing an important role in the Australian agricultural industry.

“We offer enormous opportunities to showcase new products and services, demonstrate machinery, highlight new technology, innovation and information,” she said.

In 2004, ACM Rural Events, a division of ACM (Australian Community Media), the largest and leading independent regional and rural publisher in Australia, bought FarmFest.

ACM Rural Events organise and promote several field days in Australia, including Australia’s largest, the AgQuip Field Days in Gunnedah, NSW.

This year at Elders Farmfest, an Agri-Tech Expo will highlight modern innovation in the agribusiness industry.

An Education Expo and seminars, meanwhile, will shine a spotlight on ground-breaking and exciting new farming practices to drive farming efficiency, productivity and profitability.

FarmFest is among one of the largest outdoor agricultural industry events, gathering more than 60,000 farming families and consumers.

“The key to the event is to ensure the experience always puts the customer front and centre – to enable the exhibitor’s product and service to resonate with them at a deeper and more impactful level than any other marketing platform,” Ms Nugent said.

FarmFest has been a significant force in field days over the past 48 years. It is an incomparable agricultural hybrid event in Queensland and the 2023 event will be no exception. For information about exhibiting, please contact the event organisers ACM Rural Events on email farmfest@austcommunitymedia. com.au or visit the FarmFest website at farmfest.com.au.