2024 Mid-South Farm and Gin Show Focusing on Farming Innovations
February 18, 2024 The 72nd annual Mid-South Farm and Gin Show opens its doors Mar. 1-2, 2024, at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, TN. The annual event features U.S. and international exhibitors displaying new equipment and machinery, cutting-edge technology, and multiple products and services for cotton and other major Mid-South crops.
“We have more than 300 exhibitors in this year’s show, including some new startup companies and new products and services,” says Tim Price, Show Manager and Executive Vice President of show sponsor Southern Cotton Ginners Association. “That shows me there are a lot of folks interested in the future of cotton and cotton ginning.”
In addition to exploring three floors of exhibits, attendees can attend educational seminars on key issues. The traditional Ag Update seminars held each morning of the show will feature market outlooks for cotton and grains, as well as an outlook on issues impacting agriculture. The Mar. 1 seminar features the annual cotton outlook from Joe Nicosia of Louis Dreyfus Company, and Richard Brock of Brock Associates highlights the Mar. 2 outlook session on grains and economic policies. Both sessions begin at 8:30 a.m.
AgLaunch, a farm-centric innovation platform to bring new ideas to agriculture, returns to the show with a series of presentations. An international trade conference, which debuted in 2023, will also return, as will a number of student and industry sessions.
Price recognizes that agriculture continues to face emerging issues and technologies and tries to capture those in the show agenda.
“You recognize that technology is now an inherent part of the farming process,” he notes. “We’re seeing increased interest in sustainability, carbon farming and sequestration, solar and wind energy, and precision technologies and software that are all a major part of the transition and change that continues in agriculture.
“If you’re a commercial farmer, or if you have interest in farming in any way, the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show has something for you.”
Show hours for the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Mar. 1 and 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Mar. 2. Pre-registration is available — and encouraged — by visiting FarmandGinShow.com. There is no cost for registration.
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