The Macquarie Valley is located in Central Western NSW and is well known for being one of Australia's premium farming districts.
It is our intention to showcase the valley as an interesting and exciting area to visit by highlighting the diverse farming practices which are used throughtout the valley. The aim of this project is to organise a celebration of Macquarie Valley food and fibre, encompassing lifestyle, production and the final produce.

The Macquarie Valley was originally formed as a sheep and cattle grazing area, with many top class Merino Studs developing in the area including the famous "Egelabra" and "Haddon Rig" studs.

The area also has a strong broad acre cropping sector that produces wheat, barley, canola, sunflowers to name just a few of the crops grown in the vallley. In recent years, many farms have developed irrigated crops, notably cotton.

There is a large citrus growing commumity, as well as some new and emerging industries such as olives, avocadoes and grapes for winemaking. We also have several flower farms in the district including iris, lavender and roses.

Over the course of the week we will begin with a city/country school tour, with Hurlstone Agriculture High school arriving on Monday 3rd March 2008 for a week of hands on farming activities, educational programes, sporting events and interacting with country school chilren. We have planned many interesting activities for people of all walks of life to participate in over the weekend of the 8th and 9th March, which will be held at the Trangie Showground, some of the things we have planned are MM Markets, Captivating Kids Corner, Fabulous Fashion, Music Rugged Rangelands, Pig Races and the list goes on and on.

This week is a result of many community groups within the valley working together to ensure a sucessful event, these include Trangie Action Group, Narromine Shire Council, New South Wales Department of State and Regional Development, NSW Farmers Association and many more.