National Farm Machinery Show

The National Farm Machinery Show is an agricultural machinery exposition held annually in February indoors at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.[1][2] Attendance exceeds 300,000 people, with 800 exhibitors in display space of 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2).[3][4]

The show started as an electricity demonstration and exhibit in 1963, and adopted the name National Farm Machinery Show in 1966.[5]

The National Farm Machinery Show includes the Championship Tractor Pull, an annual event since 1969.

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References

  1. ↑ "Farm-machinery Show Opens Tomorrow". Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky). Associated Press. February 12, 1985. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  2. ↑ Crowell, Susan (February 17, 2009). "National Farm Machinery Show visitors, exhibitors 'cautiously optimistic'". Farm and Dairy. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ NFMS Fact Sheet
  4. ↑ "Farm show opens". The Daily Record (Ellensburg, Washington). February 14, 1985. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  5. ↑ Crowell, Susan (February 20, 2003). "Electricity show sparks indoor farm spectacular". Farm and Dairy. Retrieved December 31, 2011.

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