From Tuesday through Thursday, November 28–30, the Amarillo Farm & Ranch Show will take place at the Civic Center in the city, located at 401 S. Buchanan St. According to the organizers, the show is returning with more exhibitors and increased opportunities for agricultural producers to acquire skills and knowledge to support the expansion of their operations.
Featuring more than 360 exhibit spaces at the Amarillo Civic Center, this popular trade show is making a return in 2023. It will showcase significant farming and planting equipment for crops such as cotton, corn, wheat, and grass, as well as various seed varieties, cattle equipment, tools, and coverage and banking services, as mentioned in a news release. “A few exhibitors are new to the event this year.” Visitors can expect to see well-known companies like John Deere, BASF, Massey Ferguson, and Polaris among the retailers.
The Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show made its debut in November 2022, with over 500 exhibitors open to the public for free at the Amarillo Civic Center, as seen in this file photo. This year’s show is scheduled to run from Tuesday to Thursday.
Attendees will also have more options for holiday shopping at this year’s event. Both parking and admission are free of charge. For a complete list of attendees, please visit AmarilloFarmShow.com.
This season, the event will offer more educational opportunities in addition to the exhibits and vendors.
The Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine is hosting two new animal training sessions on Tuesday: Basic Husbandry for Sheep and Goats, and Bull Management. At 1 p.m., the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s Beef Quality Assurance Training will allow animal producers to become certified or re-certified, and the returning CEU Workshop will cover new topics. AgriLife lessons will take place in the Grand Plaza Ballroom of the civic center.
On Wednesday, the Cotton Conference and the Texas Wheat Symposium will take place. The Texas Wheat Growers Association is hosting the forum, which includes discussions on farm policy and market outlook. At 11:45 a.m., the Ag Appreciation Luncheon, co-hosted by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Ag Council, will resume with serving lines available. The keynote speaker for the free breakfast event is Vance Crowe, presenting “A Conflict Older Than Bread: Bridging the Urban/Rural Gap,” which was founded by Crowe at Legacy Conversations in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cotton researchers from the High Plains will cover various topics at the Cotton Conference, including fabric development, marketing options, and related domestic and international concerns.
On Thursday, FFA students are invited to attend the Panhandle Ag Education Day, starting at 10:30 a.m. The day will include “Managing Data, Danger, and Market Cycles: How Fields Grow Profits” as part of its financial knowledge program. Following this, panelists and attendees will conduct scavenger hunts throughout the trade show to learn more about the agricultural sector.
Throughout the event, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host several educational program activities.
The Amarillo Farm Show CEU Workshop will take place on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is required at 8 a.m., and the program starts at 8:00 a.m. For registration, an RSVP is requested but not mandatory to Megan Eikner, AgriLife Extension crops and healthy resources representative in Potter County, at Mike. [email protected]. education. Participants are required to bring their latest Texas Department of Agriculture sprayer cards during registration, and AgriLife checks must be made payable to the Potter Ag Committee. Registered participants will also receive breakfast and lunch. The workshop will provide participants with access to a total of five TDA continuing education units, including two general, two integrated pest management, and one law and regulation unit, according to AgriLife.
The workshop’s agenda will include an update on laws and regulations by Cheryl Goswick, TDA inspector in Amarillo, and a primer on field scouting and pest control methods. Topics covered in the Scout School will include maize and corn scouting tools and pests with Jourdan Bell, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist in Amarillo and Muleshoe, and maize, corn, and fabric pest entomology with José Santiago-Gazález, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension epidemiologist in Amarillo.
Jason Smith, Ph.D., and a beef quality assurance training course will take place on Tuesday from 1 to 5 p.m. D., a consultant in AgriLife Extension beef cattle and associate professor of animal research in the Department of Animal Science, will be the guest speaker. The program is designed for individuals seeking certification or re-certification in best practices for ensuring beef quality, including waste reduction, vaccine handling, proper injection administration, genetic selection, environmental stewardship, and cattle handling and welfare. To RSVP, please visit 817-916-1753 or [email protected].
Mark Welch, Ph.D., will provide a grains market outlook at the Texas Wheat Symposium on Wednesday, starting at 10:30 a.m. He is an analyst for corn marketing at AgriLife Extension, and Joe Outlaw, Ph.D., will provide an outlook on farm policy. He is an analyst for AgriLife Extension and co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University in Bryan College Station. Laura Goodman, Ph.D., will deliver a lecture titled “Grassland Management and Grazing Decision Aids for Landowners” at 1:30 p.m. after the luncheon. Goodman specializes in natural resource ecosystem management and improvement and is an associate professor at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Goodman will cover topics such as drought stockpiling, brush control, and patch-burn grazing to improve grazing quality. A panel discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of management practices used on farms and ranches in the Texas Panhandle area is also scheduled, featuring local farmers Mike Turner and Clint Hoelting. The show is expected to conclude around 4 p.m.
In addition to working with American fabric exporters and importers, AgriLife Extension is also coordinating a Blue Jean Drive. Participants will have the opportunity to donate used fabric items at the show as part of the Blue Jeans Go Green initiative, aimed at preventing these items from ending up in landfills. The donated clothing will be collected and used to create environmentally friendly fabric insulation for underprivileged areas.