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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