PHOTOS: 15,000 visitors. 370 exhibitors. One huge London Farm Show

The London Farm Show, billed as the largest such indoor event in Eastern Canada, was set to wrap up Friday at the Western Fair Agriplex.

Mike Hensen

Published Mar 08, 2024 • < 1 minute read

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Hazel Park, 6, and her brother Paul, 3, check out a smaller tractor among the giant ones on display at the London Farm Show at the Western Fair Agriplex on Wednesday March 6, 2024. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)

The London Farm Show, billed as the largest such indoor event in Eastern Canada, was set to wrap up Friday at the Western Fair Agriplex. With more than 370 exhibitors, organizers expected 15,000 visitors. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen

John Johnstone of Volatus Aeronautics shows the span of just one of the four double rotors on their $45,000 agricultural drone.

The Kubota stand was a hit with people filling out applications to get a free Kubota hat. Grant Edwards, who runs the Western University field station on Wonderland Road, and Anne Durst of Bryanne Farm near Niagara fill out the applications with Sarah-Marie Doherty ready to hand over the caps.

Storm Thiessen of Tillsonburg listens to the details about a high-speed disc from Ken Meesters of Flesherton.

George and Dallas Keys — Chuck Baersich of Haggerty Creek shows George Keys, 7, and his brother Dallas, 8, how a phone app can control robotic tillers.

While his dad, Maynard Martin of Granton, checks out a large Kubota tractor, Cody, 4, was more interested in what was going on around him.

Maya Doherty, 4, “picked her own outfit today,” said her mom as the fashionable youngster sported just about the only glitter at the farm show.

mhensen@postmedia.com

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