Farming on display: Spokane Ag Show brings in businesses of all kinds

SPOKANE — The Inland Northwest agricultural community showed off at the Spokane Ag Show, held at the Spokane Convention Center Feb. 6-8. The 120,000-square-foot exhibition hall hosted 208 exhibitors. High-powered farm equipment stood cheek-by-jowl with seed, pesticide and fertilizer vendors, insurance agents, banks, high-tech innovators and growers’ associations. WA Meat-Up, a collaboration between the Washington State University Extension and the Washington Department of Agriculture, had its mobile education unit set up, a small meat-processing set up in the back of a truck. WA Meat-Up aims to improve the meat supply chain in Washington by connecting with and educating the public in safe meat handling techniques, selection of meat, efficient processing and other areas.