| Show Organizer (s): | Oregon Association of Nurserymen |
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| Event Date (s): | Aug 21, 2008 - Aug 23, 2008 |
| Venue: | Oregon Convention Center |
| Address: | 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Portland OR |
| No. of Exhibitors: | 650 |
| No. of Attendees: | 13,000-14,000 |
| Exhibition Floor Size: (sqm) | 175000 |
| Phone: | 800-791-2250 |
| Offical Website of Show: | http://www.farwestshow.com/ |
Summary
The Farwest Show is one of the top-attended nursery trade shows in North America, set in the heart of one of America's most fertile growing areas. The show has more than 640 exhibitors in 850 booth spaces and maintains a strict 60-40 ratio of green goods exhibitors vs. hard goods. It attracts large numbers of wholesale growers, retailers, industry suppliers and service providers, and landscape services firms. The show's hours of noon-6 p.sqm. daily encourage attendees to visit nearby nurseries, hundreds of which are within an hour's drive of the show. The show's hours also make it convenient to attend the roughly 50 hours of accompanying Ornamentals Northwest Seminars, which are held either before or after show hours.
General Information
The Farwest Show. Since the early 1970s this trade show has been setting the standard in the nursery industry: Deep roots in floriculture and horticulture. Lots of growers, suppliers and services all under one roof. Respected educational seminars. Portland, Oregon, and the Northwest. The Farwest Show is Destination Oregon! With more than 870 exhibitors and 1,365 booth spaces, the annual Farwest Show in Portland, Oregon, is your ticket to everything green.
Attendee Information
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Exhibitor Information
Sixty percent of Farwest Show exhibitors represent the green goods industry. They include wholesale growers of a wide variety of nursery stock, from grafted ornamentals and liners to turf, conifers, bedding plants, broadleaf evergreens, deciduous shade/fruit/flowering trees and much more. Other exhibitors represent a variety of nursery-related services and suppliers, including greenhouse and irrigation equipment, containers, fertilizers, farm implements, landscape services, trade associations, publishing.
