A major component of jointly held farm meetings, seminars and exhibits held in early January plans to move out of Saskatoon’s downtown.
CropSphere, which consists of several farm groups that broke from Crop Production Week and Crop Production Show three years ago to create a third event at a downtown convention centre, is moving to Prairieland Park exhibition grounds. That means it will be at the same site as Crop Production Show. Crop Production Week will continue to be held at the Saskatoon Inn.
A new city bridge that improves travel time between the exhibition grounds and the hotel, and renovations to the hotel, prompted the move.
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Carl Potts, CropSphere’s spokesperson and executive director of Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, said moving the group’s meetings to the exhibition grounds will allow producers better access to the farm show.
“There will be improved parking and access to another major event during the week,” said Potts.
However the ability to hold larger meetings, such as pulse grower and canola meetings will be limited to about 300, from the current 600.
“It should still work out over two days of meetings,” he said.
The groups are still working on the logistics of fitting the CropSphere meetings into a smaller set of rooms, he said.
michael.raine@producer.com
