Event gets smart phone savvy

Now the event is smart phone savvy too.

At the 2014 event, visitors will be able to use an iPhone or android FarmFest app, packed with handy onsite features including a complete, searchable and up-to-date exhibitor list with their site locations - and it's free.

The app will have the capability of searching a specific exhibitor's products - with built-in site maps and on-site tools to help you navigate your way around the field day static display area.

CRT FarmFest 2014 is a big event anybody on the land can simply not afford to miss - with more than 2000 companies and organisations exhibiting and more than 60,000 people expected through the gates for the three days.

From abrasives to air seeders, quad bikes and side-by-side utility vehicles to augers, bins to boom sprays, bull bars to brush cutters, cattle to cultivators, engines to electric fences, front end loaders to fuel supplies, grain dryers to grader blades, harvesters to hoses, laser levellers to livestock and tractors to tanks, CRT FarmFest is a smorgasbord for those in rural industries.

"Innovation is something we are seeing increasingly more of in the industry with farmers responding to environmental changes in new and interesting ways," said general manager of organisers Rural Press Events Barry Harley.

"CRT FarmFest assists in giving farmers the knowledge and equipment to adapt.

"It is vitally important for FarmFest, as one of the most commercially successful and influential agricultural events in the nation, to maintain its strong support for Queens- land's farmers and primary industry operators and demonstrate first-hand innovation."

To download the free FarmFest app go to the Apple App Store or Google Play.