Support for the Australia's biggest field day is amazing with more than 3000 agribusinesses, rural support organisations and authorities represented at this year's event.
It's a fact that Australian Community Media's Rural Events division group manager Kate Nugent is proud of because, as she says, it shows the huge respect the industry places on this event.
"Despite continued dry conditions over many regions of Australia, AgQuip has a full house of exhibitors and all indications lead us to believe we will also see strong attendance from farmers and primary industry people from all over the nation - offering a time for talking, supporting and caring," she said.
"It demonstrates the industry on both sides, continues to value and place a vast importance on the face-to-face connections, direct farmer feedback they get at the event and offering a social meeting place for rural Australia.
"The 2019 season is proving tough again for many farmers, yet we know they must continue, and AgQuip is there to help."
This year the organisers have set up a Rural Relief Precinct and invited a number of rural and regional support organisations to be involved in AgQuip.
They will have an opportunity to highlight and share some lifesaving preventative health and safety information, on-site help to apply for drought relief assistance for primary producers, farmers, agricultural workers and the rural community at large.
There will be giveaway food parcels and vouchers, there will be advice on funding measures to manage pest animals and weeds on farms, site rural funding support and advice to assist our farmers and families to get the immediate needed relief under the Drought Community Support Initiative.
There will be the Salvation Army, Centracare, Men's Health Educational Rural Van (MHERV), Outback Alternative Training, Woolworths, Variety, Royal Far West, Little Angles and Old McDonalds Farm to entertain the children - and more.
While AgQuip has the reputation for big sales and groundbreaking technology, the trying conditions faced by the rural sector has given the organisers another focus - that of mental health and assistance for our farmers at a grass roots level.
