Plote reports from machinery show
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Plenty of happy people looking at nice shiny equipment is how Roy Plote describes this week’s National Farm Machinery Show at Louisville to The Central Illinois Farm Network.
As Plote spoke with us over the phone Wednesday, he said it was rather windy in that area as they lost power a few times. This is his first time at the show in a few years and the show was not held last year.
“It’s nice to see a lot of people together,” Plote said.
Plote estimated the crowd at about 70 percent of what he has observed on a really busy day at the show.
“The Fendt sprayer is up on stilts just so you can walk under it and marvel at the mechanics.”
The bigger dealers and corporations usually take up an area which is the size of a basketball court or two. A few companies event take up space in two different buildings.
“Kubota has smaller equipment and skid steers in one area and they have their tractors and loaders in a different area,” Plote explained.
Plote observed plenty of promotions where visitors are given a code to sign up for contests. As far as the ages attending the show, Plote estimates mostly adults ages 45 and up but there were plenty of young people on hand, too.
Roy Plote is a Central Illinois Farm Network market contributor each Thursday on our CIFN Midday Update and lives at Leland, Illinois in the northern part of the state with PCI – a division lf L&M Commodities.
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