Grey Bruce Farmers' Week 2023 returns in-person to Elmwood

The Grey Bruce Farmers' Week (GBFW) returns to the Elmwood Community Centre in January along with its famed roast beef dinners – and acres of dessert tables laden with pies – after two years of Covid restrictions.

The seven-day agricultural conference and tradeshow will also be available as a livestreamed event, reflecting the event's growing audience from outside the Grey Bruce area.

The streams will be available for 30 days after the event, joining 21 on-demand pre-recroded presentations as new initiatives for the 2023 show.

Lorie Smith, GBFW co-ordinator, shares the details:

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Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week returns for its 57th consecutive year in 2023!

This annual conference and tradeshow will be held in-person at the Elmwood Community Centre, or can be livestreamed from your home, between January 4 and 10, 2023.

The conference starts with Beef Day, followed by Dairy, Goat, Sheep, Horse, Ecological and Crops days. It is a seven day agricultural conference packed with a most impressive and informative line-up of speakers!

The coordinators for this event, Grey County Ag Services, in conjunction with agricultural commodity leaders from Grey and Bruce counties, look forward to seeing producers, agribusiness professionals, and industry experts gather together after two years of airing the conference virtually.

They anticipate a stellar event with strong support from sponsors and exhibitors, as well as lots of enthusiasm from the audience.

Not to be forgotten, the return of the in-person event also brings the return of the excellent hot roast beef meal! Goat and lamb will be served on their respective days, and pies will line dessert tables once more. Networking is always better when done over dinner!

GBFW OldBrochures New this year, whether audience members purchase tickets for livestreaming or in-person attendance, all will be given access to conference recordings for a thirty-day span post-event. Producers can make use of this ‘Encore Access’ in order to catch up on pieces that they may have missed, or to recap information that they found especially useful.

In addition to Encore Access for the live presentations, audience members will also find available twenty-one ‘On Demand’ presentations. These are pre-recorded and available for watching on the attendee’s own time, from home.

Topics covered are broad, and access to all twenty-one presentations are included with tickets purchases for any day of the week. This roughly triples the content available to the GBFW audience.

The program will be strong as ever in 2023. Keynote speakers include:

On Beef Day, Dr. Jordan Thomas, Cow-Calf Specialist from the University of Missouri, will deliver The ‘Silent Killer’ of Cow-Calf Profitability
On Dairy Day, Mike Hutjens, Ph.D., Professor of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana, will present Strategies with High Feed Prices
On Goat and Sheep Days, Dr. Robert Van Saun, Professor and Extension Veterinarian from Pennsylvania State University, will share Understanding Colostrum Quality and Passive Transfer and Pregnancy Toxemia and Milk Fever in Goats & Sheep
On Horse Day, Dr. Wendy Pearson, Associate Professor – Equine Physiology from the University of Guelph, will delve into Leaky Gut Syndrome in Horses
On Ecological Day, Dr. Vicky Levesque, Research Scientist – Soil Health, with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, will explore, Biochar: Ancient “Black Gold” Amendment Method May Improve Agricultural Soil Health of Today
On Crops Day: Andrew Pritchard, Senior Meteorologist for Nutrien Ag Solutions, will dig into, Disruptive Weather Patterns in Production Agriculture & Weather Outlook

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Many, many more excellent speakers fill out the schedules for each day, as well as panel discussions covering (by order of the day they appear) ROI on Grazing Cover Crops, Robotic Milking Systems: Past, Present and Future, Culling Tips for Goat Farms, Outwintering Sheep, My Must Haves for Horse Management, All About Cover Crops, and The Fourth Crop – Winter Canola, Winter Barley and Edible Beans.

Livestreaming tickets must be pre-purchased online. It is recommended that attendees purchase in-person tickets online as well. For those unable to do so, cash, cheque and debit will be accepted at the door.

Registration price (online required for livestreaming, recommended for in person attendance):

All days, in person or livestreamed: $50/day Includes HST or $120 for 3 days.
Livestreamers can purchase the content for the whole week for $180.
Registration includes access to conference content during the 30 day encore access. All attendees can also view 21 bonus presentations following the event.
In-person attendance includes hot roast beef dinner. Goat and lamb are also served on those respective days.

Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week will be held at the Elmwood Community Centre, 38 Concession Road 10, Elmwood. The facility is 1.6 km west of the flashing amber light on Grey Road 10 north of Hanover.

Would you like more information about Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week’s program or tickets? Go to our website, or contact the organizers directly by emailing [email protected] or calling 519-986-3756.

Don’t forget to follow the event on social media too! Twitter and Facebook: @GBFarmersWeek, Instagram: @GB_FarmersWeek, #GBFW23.

Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week would like to acknowledge the Premier and Platinum sponsors: