Empire Farm Days

[Peat]

Sorry to hear Empire Farm Days in New York is cancelled this year, is a great showcase for New York State Agriculture

 

[Charlie M]

Some time back they moved off the farm in Seneca Falls where it had been for a lot of years. I haven't heard what is going on except I heard it was cancelled also.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Some time back they moved off the farm in Seneca Falls where it had been for a lot of years. I haven't heard what is going on except I heard it was cancelled also.

Had been at Seneca Falls 32 years. Hard to believe. With the move to the hills of Pompey everyone I talked with hated it. It had been there years before when the show moved around, and I don't recall the negative comments.

 

[Tim in New York]

Never made it to the new location, but I also heard it was nothing like the old venue. Prior to the change, we used to go every year to Seneca Falls. Wonder how they will "rebrand" it? The woman who ran it for many years retired just before the change, and I figured that was linked to something behind the scenes.

 

[Charlie M]

I used to go every few years to see the modern machinery and how its changed from my days of growing up on a small dairy farm in the 60's. Even the small stuff dwarfs anything I own.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The announcement is that it is "permanently" canceled. That is, it will never be held again by the current owner.

Plenty of blame to go around. The new site. The internet. The decreasing number, and increasing size, of farms. Very few that attend the show actually buy anything substantial. It has to be profitable for the manufacturers to attend, and it just isn't. People just go for the "freebies" most of which end up in the trash and forgotten at the end of the day.

In a similar discussion on another website someone with a little closer connection was saying large companies like John Deere were planning on scaling back their participation in a big way. No more huge display of tractors, combines, equipment... Just a KIOSK.

Another insight made was that it's cheaper to bring the buyers to the show than to bring the show to the buyers these days. Give a few large buyers plane tickets and hotel rooms, show them a good time.

Not that they wouldn't buy because every farmer is color-loyal to a fault. You don't need to advertise John Deere to a green guy, and advertising John Deere to a CaseIH guy is wasted money because he's never going to buy anything green. Sure you have a few that flip-flop around but they're already shopping, and know what's out there.