Farm Machinery Show attracts all the major manufacturers

TRADE space bookings for next month’s Farm Machinery Show at Punchestown Event Centre have exceeded all expectations, according to the organisers. The Farm Tractor Machinery Trade Association’s show committee, headed by Michael Devane, has announced that all the big manufacturers have booked the maximum space available.

Mr Devane said many of the bigger farm machine companies asked for even more space, as they believed more farmers and contractors would be attracted to the new easy to reach venue. To date, all applicants for space have been accommodated under cover in the main exhibition hall and in two adjoining rigid-sided marquee pavilions. A special outdoor exhibition area, central to the whole event, is being provided to facilitate exhibitors with extra large or heavy machines not suited for showing indoors.

“The 2003 Farm Machinery Show has attracted a whole range of new exhibitors. Ease of access with a good road network around Naas has been a major influence on the bookings for next year's show,” he said. The Farm Machinery Show, organised by FTMT Exhibitions Ltd, has been held

successfully every second year since 1989.

Firmly established as the showcase for the farm machinery trade in

Ireland, it will be held this year on February 4, 5 and 6.