AgQuip 2024 finishes strong
Over 50,000 visited the show this yearAustralia’s leading field days, AgQuip, has wrapped for another year, with tens of thousands of visitors passing through the gates and exhibitors receiving good interest across a range of products and services.
New South Wales Premier, The Hon Chris Minns MP, and NSW Minister for Agriculture, The Hon Tara Moriarty MP, joined the field day celebrations on Thursday, visiting some of the more than 2500 exhibitors at the 2024 event, meeting many attendees and even enjoying one of AgQuip’s famous steak sandwiches, cooked by Calrossy Anglican School students volunteering on the Shorthorn breeders’ stand.
More than 50,000 visitors passed through the gates of AgQuip this year, on par with previous years’ crowds. According to organiser, ACM, attendance levels remained strong year-on-year, with a visitor survey this year showing more than half of attendees lived within 200km of the AgQuip site and about 15 per cent travelling from greater than 400km away to attend.
Three quarters of visitors have been to AgQuip three times or more and more than half of attendees this year were typically at the event to make a particular purchase.
Volunteers were also what makes the event so successful every year. At the Shorthorn steak sandwich stand, Calrossy students went through more than 2300 steaks, 25kg of sausages and 330 loaves of bread. Over 80 students helped at that particular stand across the three days.
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Over at the AgSmart Connect Hub, attendees had access to two days’ of seminar presentations from some of the nation’s leading agri-innovation experts on the likes of carbon farming, remote monitoring, telecommunications, IoT and data.
“ACM Agri Events is committed to the ongoing growth and evolution of Australia’s thriving agriculture industry, and is so proud to be able to contribute with the staging of these important field day events, with a real focus on continued investment in the critical agri-tech sector,” said ACM Agri General Manager, Craig Chapman.
“ACM would like to thank everyone who supported AgSmart Connect, Elders FarmFest and Aon AgQuip this year, and we hope to see you all again in 2025.”
The AgQuip field days will take place next year from August 19 to 21.
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