Events worth the drive.

Acres U.S.A. Eco-Ag Conference

Event

Dec 1-4, 2026

The December eco-agriculture conference, nearly fifty years running.

The regenerative old guard and new guard in one hall.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Commodity Classic

Event

Mar 3-5, 2027

The row-crop grower associations' joint convention and trade show, each late winter, rotating southern cities.

Where commodity policy, agronomy education, and the big equipment all meet.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Cultivate

Event

Jul 10-13, 2027

The horticulture industry's biggest annual show, each July in Columbus: production, retail, and the Medal of Excellence announcements.

The whole greenhouse trade in one building, once a year.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

EcoFarm Conference

Event

Jan 20-23, 2027

The West Coast's ecological farming gathering, each January at Pacific Grove, California, running since 1981.

The West's organic winter meeting, ocean included.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Farm Progress Show

Event

Aug 31 - Sep 2, 2027

The country's biggest outdoor farm show, late summer, alternating between Boone, Iowa and Decatur, Illinois, with live field demonstrations.

Equipment working in an actual field, not on carpet.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

FIRA USA

Event

Oct 20-22, 2026

The agricultural robotics show, each fall: the machines that will weed for you, walking the rows. The 2026 edition runs at Yakima, Washington.

Ag autonomy in person before you read about it.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Georgia Organics Farmer Summit (successor to SOWTH)

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Jan 30-31, 2027

The South's sustainable agriculture conference, rebranded SOWTH under Georgia Organics. Last held February 2025; watch Georgia Organics for the next edition.

Southern growers teaching southern growers, when the next edition lands.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

GOAT gathering

Event

Dec 7-11, 2026

The biennial unconference of open agricultural technology; next edition December 2026 at Seabrook Island, South Carolina.

Every open-ag builder in one room, every other year.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Grassfed Exchange

Event

The grassfed livestock conference and ranch tours, held around the country. Last held 2023; the organizers are seeking a host for the next edition.

Graziers comparing notes, pasture walks included, once it finds its next home.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Great Lakes EXPO

Event

Dec 8-10, 2026

The Midwest's big December show for vegetable, fruit, and farm-market growers in Grand Rapids.

The Midwest specialty-crop winter meeting, education tracks and all.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

Great Plains Growers Conference

Event

Jan 8-9, 2027

The four-state January conference at St. Joseph, Missouri: the plains states' shared grower meeting, workshops the day before.

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa growers all treat this as their state conference. So should you.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

GreenTech Amsterdam

Event

Jun 15-17, 2027

The global greenhouse-technology show, each June in Amsterdam, where controlled-environment equipment debuts first.

The Dutch greenhouse world, which is to say the future of yours.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Husker Harvest Days

Event

Sep 14-16, 2027

The big irrigated-agriculture field show, each September at Grand Island, Nebraska.

Irrigation equipment demonstrated under real center pivots.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

IFPA Global Produce and Floral Show

Event

Oct 14-16, 2026

The produce industry's giant October trade show, where retail buyers and growers of every size meet.

The buying side of your industry, all in one hall.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Indoor Ag-Con

Event

Mar 24-25, 2027

The indoor and vertical farming trade show, spring in Las Vegas.

The CEA industry's annual gathering.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference

Event

Feb 26-27, 2027

The largest organic farming conference in the country, late February, now at Delavan, Wisconsin.

The organic movement's family reunion, workshops included.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention

Event

Feb 2-4, 2027

The Hershey, Pennsylvania winter convention, early February, anchoring the mid-Atlantic grower calendar.

Three days of production sessions with the region's extension specialists in one hotel.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

National Farm Machinery Show

Event

Feb 10-13, 2027

The February Louisville machinery show, indoors, with the tractor pull.

The equipment winter pilgrimage east of the Mississippi.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

National FFA Convention and Expo

Event

Oct 21-24, 2026

The largest annual gathering of agricultural students in the country, each fall in Indianapolis.

Where the next generation of your industry shows up sixty thousand strong.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference

Event

Dec 15-17, 2026

The biennial December conference at Manchester, New Hampshire, built by the region's extension services.

New England's every-other-year deep dive, extension-taught.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

No-till on the Plains Winter Conference

Event

Jan 19-21, 2027

The plains soil-health conference, each January in Kansas, teaching continuous no-till systems since the nineties.

The deepest bench of working no-till farmers in one room.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

NOFA state winter conferences

Event

Winter

Each Northeast state chapter runs its own winter conference. The old interstate summer conference has been on hiatus since 2023; the state winters carry the calendar now.

The Northeast's organic winter meeting, one state over at most.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Organic Grower Summit

Event

Dec 2-3, 2026

The organic production and supply-chain summit, late fall in Monterey, California.

Where commercial organic growers meet their buyers and suppliers.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

PASA Sustainable Agriculture Conference

Event

Feb 10-12, 2027

Pennsylvania's big February sustainable-farming conference, one of the strongest education programs in the East.

A winter's worth of learning in a long weekend.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

REGENERATE Conference

Event

Oct 28-30, 2026

The Southwest's regenerative ranching and agriculture conference, each fall, hosted by the Quivira Coalition and partners.

The working-lands regenerative community, ranchers included.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference

Event

Jan 7-9, 2027

The Southeast's big specialty-crop meeting, each January in Savannah.

The winter meeting for southeastern fruit and vegetable growers.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Sunbelt Ag Expo

Event

Oct 20-22, 2026

The Southeast's October field show at Moultrie, Georgia, with harvest demonstrations on a working research farm.

The South's farm show, machinery running in the dirt.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

World Ag Expo

Event

Feb 9-11, 2027

The largest annual agricultural exposition anywhere, each February in Tulare, California.

Every piece of big iron on earth, three days, one dusty lot.

Verified Oct 13, 2026

World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

Event

Mar 9-10, 2027

The agtech investment and partnering summit, each March in San Francisco, with a fall edition in London.

Where the money and the technology companies decide what gets built next.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

World Dairy Expo

Event

Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2027

The global dairy industry's annual meeting, early October in Madison, Wisconsin: cattle shows, equipment, and seminars.

Everything dairy, once a year, one fairgrounds.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Alaska Agriculture Conference

Event

Nov 12-14, 2026

The statewide gathering of Alaska agriculture, each November in Anchorage.

Everyone growing food in the hardest state to grow it, in one room.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Alabama Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference

Event

Feb 3-5, 2027

Alabama's annual grower conference and trade show, each February at Gulf Shores.

The state's specialty-crop growers and their suppliers, one beach hotel.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Southwest Ag Summit

Event

Feb 16-18, 2027

The desert-vegetable industry's February summit at Yuma, twenty years running.

Winter-vegetable production knowledge from the country's salad bowl.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Connecticut Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Conference

Event

Jan 12, 2027

UConn Extension's one-day January grower conference at Storrs.

A season's worth of research updates in a single affordable day.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Delaware Agriculture Week

Event

Jan 11-14, 2027

A January week of grower sessions at Harrington, fruit and vegetable tracks included.

The whole state's extension program, compressed into one week.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers Conference

Event

October

The islands' tropical-fruit growers meet each fall, thirty-six years running.

Tropical fruit production knowledge you cannot get on the mainland.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Iowa Specialty Producers Conference

Event

Feb 23, 2027

Iowa's specialty-crop growers meet each winter, fruit and vegetable tracks both.

Horticulture in a row-crop state: the people doing what you are doing.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

From Food to Flowers, Everything Local Conference

Event

Jan 27-29, 2027

Illinois' specialty-crop and local-food conference, each January at Springfield.

Growers, farmers-market operators, and buyers under one roof.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Indiana Horticulture and Small Farm Conference

Event

Jan 26-28, 2027

Purdue's January grower conference, successor to the Indiana Horticultural Congress.

The state's fruit, vegetable, and small-farm research in one place.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Conference

Event

Jan 11-12, 2027

Kentucky's January grower conference at Bowling Green, run by the Horticulture Council with UK Extension.

The commonwealth's fruit and vegetable community, once a winter.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Future Harvest Conference

Event

Jan 20-23, 2027

The Chesapeake region's sustainable-farming conference, each January in Maryland.

The mid-Atlantic's regenerative growers, close enough to drive.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Maine Agricultural Trades Show

Event

Jan 12-14, 2027

Maine's January trades show at Augusta, where the vegetable and small fruit growers hold their annual meeting.

The whole Maine ag community, free, three days.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference

Event

Jan 21-22, 2027

Minnesota's annual grower conference and trade show, each January.

Cold-climate fruit and vegetable production from the people who live it.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Mississippi Specialty Crops Short Course

Event

May

MSU Extension's spring short course at Raymond, the state's recurring specialty-crop education day.

Mississippi-specific production answers from the state's own researchers.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Montana Organic Association Conference

Event

Dec 8-10, 2026

Montana's December organic conference at Great Falls, covering the state's whole organic scene from grain to garden.

The closest thing Montana has to a statewide grower meeting.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Southeast Vegetable and Fruit Expo

Event

Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2026

North Carolina's grower expo, held each early December at Myrtle Beach just over the state line.

Carolina vegetable production, plus a South Carolina crowd that treats it as theirs too.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

North Dakota Local Foods Conference

Event

October

North Dakota's fall local-foods conference, run with the state agriculture department, twenty years running.

The state's market growers and food entrepreneurs, once each October.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Northeast Agricultural Expo

Event

Jan 19-22, 2027

New Jersey's grower convention, renamed the Northeast Agricultural Expo, each January in Atlantic City.

The Garden State's vegetable industry and its research, seaside in winter.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Roots-2-Results Small Farms Conference

Event

February

Nevada's small-farms conference, run north and south each February by UNR Extension.

Desert and high-desert growing answers for the driest state.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Empire State Expo + Becker Forum

Event

Jan 11-14, 2027

New York's January grower expo at Syracuse, run with Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The Northeast's biggest single-state grower meeting.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Ohio Produce Network

Event

Jan 18-19, 2027

Ohio's January produce conference, growers and marketers together.

The state's produce industry and its buyers in one hall.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Oregon Small Farms Conference

Event

Feb 20, 2027

OSU's one-day February conference at Corvallis, the Northwest's small-farm gathering.

A full year of Oregon small-farm research and grower talks in one Saturday.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

South Dakota Local Foods Conference

Event

November

South Dakota's November local-foods conference, rotating cities, run by a coalition of the state's grower and food groups.

The state's growers, markets, and food buyers in one small, useful room.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Tennessee Farm and Agriculture Expo (formerly Pick TN Conference)

Event

Feb 18-20, 2027

Tennessee's joint winter conference, nine producer associations under one roof at Lebanon.

Every Tennessee specialty-crop association's annual meeting, one trip.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Texas Fruit Conference

Event

January

AgriLife Extension's annual fruit conference; Texas has no unified statewide vegetable conference, so this is the recurring grower-education anchor.

Texas-specific fruit and nut production from the state's own specialists.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Utah Urban and Small Farms Conference

Event

February

USU Extension's February conference, fruit and vegetable tracks for market farms, fifteen years running.

High-desert market farming answers from Utah's own extension.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Virginia Biological Farming Conference

Event

Jan 8-10, 2027

Virginia's January sustainable-farming conference at Roanoke.

The commonwealth's ecological growers, three days each winter.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Annual Meeting

Event

Jan 19, 2027

Vermont's one-day January grower meeting at Lake Morey, an association famous for growers sharing real numbers.

One of the most open grower communities in the country, in person.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Tilth Conference

Event

Nov 16-18, 2026

Washington's November conference for diversified growers, at Bellingham this edition.

The state's organic and diversified farming community, before the holidays.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Growing Wisconsin Conference

Event

Jan 17-19, 2027

Wisconsin's January grower conference at the Dells, renamed from the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference.

The state's fruit and vegetable industry, three days each winter.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

West Virginia Small Farm Conference

Event

February

WVU Extension's February conference at Charleston for the state's small farms.

Mountain-state growing answers, priced for mountain-state farms.

Verified Oct 14, 2026

Harvest Wyoming Conference

Event

April

Wyoming's spring specialty-crop conference, rotating cities, run by UW Extension.

High-plains growing answers for the state with the shortest seasons.

Verified Oct 14, 2026