With nearly 200 exhibitors and more than a quarter of a million square feet of display space, the 19th annual edition of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo promises to be one of the biggest and best ever.
All three of this year’s winners of scholarships from the Willamette Valley Ag Association will graduate from Oregon State University with agriculture degrees.
What: 19th annual Willamette Valley Ag Expo
One of the more visually interesting parts of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo each year is the huge display of antique farm and ranch equipment from local owners.
Members of Scio High School’s FFA chapter help each year at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo, getting lots of valuable experience along the way.
Volunteers such as those from the Oregon Women for Agriculture are important cogs in the machinery of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s 19th year will begin with a kick-off workshop of Family Farm Business 2020 Strategy Panels at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Jill Ingalls likes to ask a pointed question of Willamette Valley Ag Expo visitors.
Overton Safety Training will again offer a forklift certification class free of charge for pre-registered attendees at the 2019 Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
Please give a big “Thank You” to the sponsors of the 2019 Willamette Valley Ag Expo. Be sure to stop by their booths during the Expo.
The 18th edition of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo kicks off on Tuesday, Nov. 13, and runs for three event-filled days at the Linn County Fair & Expo Center in Albany, Ore.
Besides a longtime relationship based on business and a deep involvement in the agriculture industry, Wilco Farmers Co-op shares another particular trait with the Willamette Valley Ag Expo: Bo…
Dine Around Oregon, the hugely successful dining event that puts the spotlight on each year’s Willamette Valley Ag Expo, heads into its sixth year in 2018, remaining “just a little bit differe…
Three Oregon university students are the 2018 recipients of scholarships from the Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
As Macy Bodine heads into her junior year at Scio High School, she is confident that her previous year of experience with the school’s longstanding FFA partnership with the Willamette Valley A…
Shelly Boshart and Macey Wessels bought Boshart Trucking from Shelly’s father and mother, Stan and Lori Boshart, on July 1, thus ensuring the Tangent, Ore., company will endure as a family ope…
Wayne Grant and his family will add their vintage John Deere tractors to the Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s collection of antique farm equipment that will be on display this year.
CORE training classes will be offered Tuesday, Nov. 13, and Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo as part of a full slate of educational and training opportunities.
Lonny Wunder, 61, a longtime volunteer at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo, is no stranger to hard work. In fact, he admits he’s had several “retirements” followed by new starts dating back to age 13.
The nine members of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo Board of Directors each serve a minimum three-year term laced with hard work that depends on smooth interactions between themselves, the spons…
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo opens its 17th year will the most exhibitors ever.
2017 Willamette Valley Ag Expo
Dine Around Oregon continues to grow along with the Willamette Valley Ag Expo, according to Jill Ingalls, event coordinator.
CORE pesticide training and credit hours, first aid classes and forklift training are highlights of the classes and seminars featured at this year’s Willamette Valley Ag Expo, said Jill Ingall…
Corporate Products Specialist Carl Laux of the Lardon Road site of Papé Machinery in Salem explains that his lofty title merely means he focuses on all of the specialty products the company ca…
Not all backers, supporters, volunteers and exhibitors at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo are directly tied into the agricultural industry.
For 17 years, the Scio FFA chapter’s relationship with the Willamette Valley Ag Expo has flourished as the two organizations successfully reached their yearly goals.
Alan Painter of Brownsville, Ore., has the perfect machine to get the Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s Antique Tractor Display “off with a bang” on Nov. 14 in the Cascade Building at the Linn Count…
It’s been 16 years since the first Willamette Valley Ag Expo, and it keeps growing with every passing year.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture pollinator program and the Oregonians for Food and Shelter will team up to sponsor the CORE pesticide training and credit hours on Tuesday and Thursday, No…
The French have a saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
The smooth running of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo each year always comes down to a firm reliance on the dedicated volunteers who set up, keep running and tear down the event each year.
Don and Vivian Kropf started Linn Benton Tractor in Tangent, Ore., steadily growing the business for 26 years to the point that they were able to establish a second location in Silverton.
Eric Fery and Cindy Octobre answer all questions about their company’s farm equipment belts, chains, bushings, collars, couplers and the like in the same way: “Come to us for solutions!”
Jack Lang of Monmouth, Ore., isn’t bringing a time machine to the Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s Antique Tractor Display, but the tractors he’s got in the show this year will take visitors back d…
The Scio FFA chapter’s energetic cadre of students has been the most noticeable face of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo since the beginnings of the event in 2000.
Here is a list of the many sponsors who have helped make this year’s Willamette Valley Ag Expo and Dine Around Oregon a success.
ALBANY, Ore. — Filled-up floor space, dynamic new exhibitors, the return of free forklift training and the exploding popularity of Dine Around Oregon are highlights of the 14th annual edition …
The wildly successful Dine Around Oregon dinner event at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo returns for a fourth year to offer something different and tasty for everyone.
If the exhibitors, sponsors and staff of the Willamette Valley Ag Expo are the lifeblood of the annual event, then the volunteers are most certainly its heart.
The Annual Antique Farm Equipment Display is feeling the squeeze of success at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo is easy to find. It is east of Exit 234 off Interstate 5 at Albany. The address is Linn County Fair and Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road, Albany, Ore.
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s nine-member board of directors makes the annual three-day agricultural show happen, and during the past 14 years they have proven their mettle by offering an ev…
Peterson Cat company of Albany is one of the company’s 18 locations in Oregon, Northern California and Washington state offering sales and service of agricultural and construction equipment.
Willamette Valley Ag Association manager Jill Ingalls was explaining an increase in duties to a cadre of FFA students who will help out at this year’s event, stressing how much it has grown.
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo will feature a full slate of educational opportunities spanning three days.
That the Willamette Valley Ag Association’s scholarship winners are bright and focused is a given, but Riane Towery of Salem, one of the five 2014 recipients, takes those qualities to a higher level.