SHOW IN REVIEW

RALEIGH NC JANUARY 31 –

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

A production

www.SouthernFarmShow.com

Show Map

Jim Graham Building 56 exhibitors

Exposition Center 57 exhibitors

Dorton Arena 16 exhibitors

Kerr Scott Building 48 exhibitors

Equipment Tent 49 exhibitors

Scott Tent 47 exhibitors

Tents 1 and 2 47 exhibitors

Outdoor Exhibits 93 exhibitors

Exhibitor Comments

This is the single best show we attend all year long.

May Supply Company

This show is a great place to exhibit. Management was excellent and kept things going as smoothly as

possible.

S.A. Fence

It's a great show with good, quality attendees and exhibitors.

Carolina Ag & Equipment Group, LLC

Attracts the biggest share of the customers we are looking for from a large area in NC and surrounding

states.

Shoup Manufacturing

The Southern Farm Show was well organized and well attended. Everything that should be expected at

a trade show was available to the exhibitors and more.

Action Manufacturing

Show Guest Profile

Location %

Eastern NC 52%

Central NC 32%

Western NC 6%

Virginia 6%

South Carolina 3%

Age %

18-34 21%

35 - 44 9%

45 - 54 25%

55 - 64 18%

65+ 19%

Show Guest Profile

Acres in Production %

Less than 25 7%

26-50 3%

51-200 38%

201-500 31%

501-1000 5%

1000-2000 3%

2000+ 13%

Exhibitors Reported Doing

Business With

%

Full Time Farmers 42%

Part Time Farmers 14%

Farm Equipment Dealers 7%

Landscape Contractors 8%

Groundskeepers 3%

Construction Companies 4%

Municipalities 5%

Other 17%

Show Guest Farming Activity

Activity %

Dairy 3%

Peanuts 8%

Turf 3%

Fruit 8%

Sweet Potato 5%

Poultry 18%

Cotton 13%

Forestry 20%

Vegetables 38%

Activity %

Corn 48%

Tobacco 15%

Soybean 58%

Beef 48%

Horses 3%

Hogs 3%

Livestock - other 28%

Hay 43%

Grain/Wheat 38%

Activities and Features

FFA Tractor and Truck

Driving Competitions Chevrolet Ride and Drive STIHL Lumberjack

Show

Southern National Draft

Horse Pull

Farm Credit Assoc of NC

Bluegrass Entertainment

National Tractor Pullers and

United Pullers Exhibit

Meetings

Exhibitor Pig Pickin NC Dept of Labor Gold

Star Grower Workshop

Breakfast with the

Commissioner

NC Agribusiness Council Wake County Agribusiness

Council Breakfast

Meetings

Tobacco Growers

Association of NC Annual

Meeting

Ag Development Forum NCDA Pesticide

Continuing Education

IMPLEMENT COMPANIES

IMPLEMENT COMPANIES

IMPLEMENT COMPANIES

IMPLEMENT COMPANIES

HAY EQUIPMENT

GRAIN and FEED HANDLING

TRAILERS

TRAILERS

HARVESTING

TRACTORS

SPREADERS, MIXERS, WASTE MANAGEMENT

SPRAYING EQUIPMENT & LIQUID STORAGE

TOBACCO AND TRANSPLANTERS

IRRIGATION

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

POWER EQUIPMENT

POWER EQUIPMENT

FORESTRY AND LAND CLEARING

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

TRUCKS and ACCESORIES

SEED AND FERTILIZER

SEED AND FERTILIZER

SHOW ADVERTISING

Television Radio

SHOW ADVERTISING

Magazine

SOCIAL MEDIA

The Southern Farm Show

Facebook page generated

attention and many fans

WEBSITE EXPOSURE

The show website

generated over 230,000

page views

PLUS…most exhibitors

created free interactive

web pages on the site.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

News releases sent to

national agricultural

publications and local

publications within a 150 mile

radius of Raleigh

DIRECT MAIL

32,000 postcards mailed to select farmers and landscapers

31,000 postcards personalized for, and distributed by, exhibitors

EXHIBITORS

A very special THANK YOU to outstanding exhibitors.

A.C. Schultes of Carolina

A.K. McCallum Co.

AAA Scale Company

ABI Irrigation

Abilene Machine Inc.

ACT Construction Equipment

Action Manufacturing

Advance Agra Service, LLC

Advanced Composting Technologies

Advanced Drainage Systems

Ag Express Electronics

Ag Leader Technology

Ag Spray Equipment

AGCO Corporation

Agri Supply

Agri-King, Inc.

Agrisoma USA

AgroLiquid

AgSafe

Amadas Industries

Ameriag, LLC

American Farm Mortgage & Financial Services

American Forest Management

American Scale

Amsoil

Apache /Palco Henke /Buffalo (Global )

Armtech Insurance

Atlantic & Southern Equipment, LLC

Atlantic Power Solutions, Inc.

Atlantic Tire & Service

Augusta Seed

B and S Enterprises Inc.

Bad Boy Mowers

Base Camp Leasing

BB& K Farms Sprigging Service

BEFCO

Belco Resources Equipment

Bella Cotton

BeltWide Incorporated

Benchmark Buildings & Irrigation Inc.

Benchmark Tool & Supply

Berry Hill Irrigation

Better Garden Tools

B-H Genetics

Bigham Ag

Bio Organic Catalyst

BJ Williamson Greenhouses

Black's Tire

Bodenhamer Farms & Nursery

Boulder Designs Raleigh Durham

Brock Equipment Co.

Builder's Discount Center

BulkTobac - Div Gas Fired Products, Inc.

Bush Hog Inc.

Bushmaster Equipment

Bush-Whacker

Calmer Corn Heads Inc.

CamLocker Toolboxes

Campbell Oil Company

Capital Ford Commercial Truck Center

Capps Trailers.com

CapstanAG

Carolina Ag & Equipment Group, LLC

Carolina Custom Traders

Carolina Greenhouse & Soil Company

Carolina Packers, Inc.

Carolina Picker Repair, Inc

Carolina Sportsman

Carport Central, Inc.

Carquest Auto Parts

Carthage Saw & Mower

Case IH Agriculture

CCS Equipment Sales, LLC

Cen-Pe-Co Carolina

Central Boiler

Certified Labs - DRM

Chapman Marketing

Childers Concrete Company

Christian Farmers Outreach

City of Raleigh/Public Utilities

Clean Burn of the Southeast

Clean Cutter Flail & Tiller Blade Co

Clear Choice Water Solutions

Clifton Seed Co.

Coastal AgroBusiness

Coastal Carolina Seed Inc.

Company Wrench Ltd.

Conklin Company

Construction Implements Depot

Corn Growers Association of North Carolina

Country Clipper Zero Turn Mowers

Crawford Engineering and Consulting, PA

Crop Production Services

EXHIBITORS

A very special THANK YOU to outstanding exhibitors.

Cross Creek Seed Inc.

Crown Royal Stoves - Greentech MFG

CRTS, Inc.

Crumpler Plastic Pipe, Inc.

CrustBuster/Speed King Inc.

CTS Cleaning Systems

Cummings & Bricker Inc.

Cyclemax

Davis & Davis Inc.

De Cloet SRL

Diesel Equipment Company

Diversified Services Agency

Dixie Chopper

Doebler's

Doub Farms LLC

Dow DuPont

Drexel Chemical Company

DuPont Pioneer

Dyna Products

East Coast Equipment

Ecodrum Composter

Ed Bullard Irrigation

Envirokure Inc.

Equipmax LLC

Evans Mactavish Agricraft, Inc.

Exmark distributed by Blalock Machinery and

Equipment

Express Flighting Supply

Extrutech Plastics Inc.

FAE USA Inc

Fairbanks Scales Inc.

Falcon Soil Technologies Group, LLC

Farm Bureau

Farm Credit Associations of NC

Farmers and Communities Manage Deer Program

FarmLogic/SoilTestPro

Farms and Land Realty

Fastline

Fecon Inc.

Fenning Equipment

Ferris / Snapper Pro Mowers

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

First Financial Bank Farm and Ranch Division

First Products Inc

Flame Engineering/Red Dragon Torches

Flue Cured Tobacco Services LLC.

FMC

Forest 2 Farm Land Clearing LLC

Frey Mfg. & Distributors

Gaston Sealey Company Inc.

General Fertilizer Equipment Inc.

General Timber

Gensco Tire

Geringhoff

Getsco

GHS, Inc.

GoldLeaf Seed Co.

Grain Dryer Sales and Service

Granville Equipment

Grasshopper Company

Grasshopper Fertilizer

GrassWorks Manufacturing, LLC

Great Plains Mfg., Inc.

Greenfield Energy

Greenleaf Technologies

Gregory Poole Equipment Company

Growers Mineral Solutions

Gypsoil Brand Gypsum

H & H Farm Machine Co. Inc.

H & H Farm Supply & Trailer Sales & Doug Heath Grass Sprigging

Hardee by EVH Manufacturing

Harvey's Fertilizer & Gas Company

Hays-LTI

Heatmaster SS/Steeltech Inc

Hill Top Tire

Hog Slat Inc.

Hotsy Cleaning Systems

H-PAC Plastics LLC

Hud-son Forest Equipment, Inc.

Hurricane Ditcher Company Inc.

ICE Companies, Inc.

Implement Sales, LLC

Innovative Forge Systems

Interstate Lightning Protection & Equipment

Intimidator Inc.

J & M Manufacturing Co., Inc.

J&L Wire

J. G. Parks & Son, Inc.

Jack Morton

Jacky Bins USA

James River Equipment

KC Crop Insurance Services Inc.

Kelley Manufacturing Co.

EXHIBITORS

A very special THANK YOU to outstanding exhibitors.

Kioti Tractor

Kubota Tractor

Kuhn North America, Inc.

Kuhns Mfg LLC

Lanco Manufacturing Inc.

Landoll Corporation

Landscape Gardening - Sandhills Community

LB's Trailer Sales

Legacy Steel Buildings

Leith Mercedes-Benz of Raleigh

Lewis Cattle Oilers

Limb Beaver

LMC-Ag, LLC

Loflin Fabrication LLC

Long Equipment Manufacturing Company, LLC

Loup Electronics

LS Tractor USA, LLC

Lucky Buck Mineral

M & W Leather

M & W Services / 1800Flagpole

Mac Don - Short Line Sales

Magnet Paint Company

Mahindra North America

MarCo Manufacturing Company

Marcrest Manufacturing Inc

Martin Till

Maschio Gaspardo

Mastry Engine Center

Maxco Lubricants Co.

Max-Flex and Fast Fence Systems

May Supply Company-Ritchie livestock waters

Mechanical Transplanter Co., Inc.

MHC Kenworth / Isuzu

Mid-Atlantic Irrigation Inc.

Milam Equipment Rental

Minnesota Pneumatic Products

Mix 30 by Agridyne

Mobile FarmWare LLC

Mobilift of Burlington

Monster Mulching & Land Management

Morton Buildings, Inc.

Motomco

MVP Services Inc.

NACHURS

NAS

Nash Building Systems

NAU Country Insurance Company

NC Ag Aviation

NC Agromedicine Institute

NC Dept of Agriculture & Consumer Services

NC Junior Holstein Association

NC Pecan Growers Association Inc.

NC Pork Council

NC Small Grain Growers Association

NC State University 4-H Camp

NCDA&CS - NC Forest Service

NCPGA

NCSU - Agricultural Institute

NCSU Agronomy Club

Nelson Academy of Agricultural Sciences Online

New Holland

Newton Crouch Inc.

North Carolina AgrAbility Partnership Project

North Carolina Cattlemen's Association

North Carolina Soybean Producers Association Inc.

North Carolina SweetPotato Commission

Northern Tool & Equipment

Onduline North America

Outback Heating of Virginia, Inc.

Outdoor Equipment Distributors, Inc.

Oxbo International

P. Bradley & Sons

Palfleet

Pasture Management Systems, Inc.

Pearson Livestock Equipment

Pentair, Hypro SHURflo

Pequea

Perdue AgriBusiness

Petromen's Inc.

Petrus Seed & Grain Co., Inc.

Piedmont Farm Systems Inc.

Pinnacle Trailer Sales, Inc.

PNC Bank

PondLift Manure Aeration and Agitation

Precision Ag Resources Inc.

Precision Planting, Inc

Priefert Farm Ranch & Rodeo

ProAg Crop Insurance

ProAg div. of Snyder Paper

Progeny Ag Products

QC Supply

Quail & Upland Wildlife Federation - North Carolina

State Council

EXHIBITORS

A very special THANK YOU to outstanding exhibitors.

Quality Craft Tools

Quality Equipment, LLC

Ranch Hand

Rawhide Portable Corral

Real McCoy Enterprises

Reddick Equipment Co of NC LLC

Revere Control Systems

Rhino Ag

Rich and Rich Bonded Auctioneers

Right of Way Equipment Company

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Rob's Hydraulics

Rockydale Quarries Corp.

Royal Oil

Rural Community Ins. Services

Rut Mfg

S.A. Fence Equipment

S.I. Distributing

Safety Siphon

Salford Group Inc.

Scag Power Equipment

Schaeffer Lubricants

Schulte Industries Inc.

SEPPI M. SpA

Sheppard Equipment Co.

Shivvers Mfg., Inc.

Shoup Manufacturing

Sloan Express

Smith Farm Trailer Sales

Smithfield Grain

Snipes Insurance Service

Soil Plus, LLC

Sound Heavy Machinery, Inc.

Southeast AgriSeeds

Southeast Farm Equipment Company

Southeast Farm Press

Southeast Industrial Equipment

Southeast Tractor Parts

Southeastern Building Products

Southeastern Composting Systems LLC

Southeastern Pipe & Drain Systems

Southeastern Pneumatic Inc.

Southern Container Corp of Wilson

Southern States Cooperative

Southern Woods Lumber, Inc.

Southland Organics

SPATCO DEF

Specialty Ag Tuning

Stan Graham Livestock by Jason Aycock

Stertil-Koni Truck Lifts

STIHL

Stuart Surles Insurance

Sukup Manufacturing Co.

Superior Fabrication, Inc. Superior Implements

Suretrol Manufacturing

Sweetwater Creek Seeds

Syngenta

T & T Distribution and Mebane Distributing

Tarver Sales

Taylor Pittsburgh Mfg. Inc.

TeeJet Technologies

Tel-Trax Co. Inc.

The Barn Loft Western Store Inc.

The Farmer's Connection

The Golf Cart Guy (Unger Golf Cart Sales)

The Hose Company

Thomas Tire Commercial & Offroad

Tidewater Power Equipment Company

Tidewater Seed LLC

Timbery LLC

Timeless Fence System

Tobacco Growers Association of NC

Tractor Tracs Inc.

TractorHouse / AuctionTime

Trailers of the East Coast

Transplant Systems

Tri State Distributors Inc.

Triad Corrugated Metal

Triangle Insurance & Associates

Triangle Pond Management

TriEst Ag Group, Inc.

Trinity Metal Buildings

Turf Equipment and Supply Company

TYM Tractors - USA

Tytun Ltd.

Unifarm Machinery Corporation

Unisouth Genetics, Inc.

United Pullers of the Carolinas & National Tractor Pullers

Unlimited Poultry Center

Unverferth Mfg. Co., Inc.

USDA-APHIS VS

USDA-APHIS-PPQ

VaCarolina Buildings, Inc.

EXHIBITORS

A very special THANK YOU to outstanding exhibitors.

Vantage South Atlantic

Vause Equipment Co

Vermeer Corporation

Virginia Farm Bureau

W. R. Long

Wake Stone Corp. / Hi-Cal AgLime

Walls Irrigation, Inc

Walters Air Assist Plant Release System

Warren Oil Company, Inc.

Waters Agricultural Laboratories, Inc.

Wilson Manufacturing

Wilson Trailer Sales & Service, Inc.

Wingfield American Harrow

Wood-Mizer Products

World Tobacco, Inc.

WW Live Stock Systems

Yara North America

JOIN US IN 2019

Mark Your Calendar!

January 30 – February 1, 2019 For more information:

David J Zimmerman

704-494-7544

dzimmerman@southernshows.com

www.SouthernFarmShow.com

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