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LAMMA Show


Promoter	LAMMA Ltd (Briefing Media)
Organisers	Newark & Nottinghamshire Agricultural Society
In aid of (Beneficiaries)	Collection held for the ? Air Ambulance
Sponsors (main)	Farmers Guardian (main)
Date held on	January (Wednesday & Thursday of 3rd week)
Duration (days)	2
Venue	Newark Showground
Location	Newark
County	Nottinghamshire
Country	England
NTET Accredited	Not applicable
Attendance numbers (approximate no.)	42,000 (2012)
Next Event Date	January 2013
First Event was held in (year)	1982
Last Event was held in (year)	2012
No. of years held	30
	Started at Lincoln Showgroud in Lincolnshire
Events Web Site	www.lammashow.org

The LAMMA Show (Lincolnshire Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Association Show) is held at Newark Show Ground in January each year as a pre season showcase for Manufactures and dealers of all types of agricultural equipment and supplies to show off the latest kit to farmers and estate managers.

HistoryEdit

The first exhibition was held at the Lincolnshire Showground in the Exhibition Hall with 50 exhibitors. The stands were all in the hall, a with a few exhibitors also showing additional equipment outside the hall. The new event attracted over 2,500 visiting farmers, contractors and agricultural engineers over the two days of the show.

The visitors and exhibitors were impressed sufficiently with the show to encourage the organiser to decide hold it again the next year, as they had achieved a small surplus to cover the costs and allow for more publicity.

The show grew steadily over the years and eventually outgrew the site so the organising committee decide to move to the Newark Showground were more covered space was available.

The range of manufactures and distributors has grown over the years from the original Lincolnshire based firms to encompass the local counties and now features manufacturers from all the UK as well as component and consumable suppliers.

In 2011 there were over 650 stands with a Yet another large marque added to cope with demand.

Visitors now come from all the UK and a fair number now travel from abroad to this event.

In July 2012 Briefing Media parent company of Farmers Guardian took over the LAMMA organising company.

ExhibitsEdit

The original focus was on machinery made by local manufactures, but over the years the equipment on display has broadened to cover international machinery brands such as Case IH, John Deere & Co., New Holland, The AGCO brands (Massey Ferguson, etc). CLAAS etc. along with specialist harvesting and planting machinery makers like /andcrop sprayer specialist.

Suppliers of crop handling and storage machinery such as potato storage systems, silage pits, and grain silos/Grain Dryers as well as cleaning and packaging lines.

Suppliers of livestock (animal) related systems such as slurry pits and spreading systems as well a milking parlours also have a presence.

Indoor areas are dedicated to suppliers of parts for making/repairing machinery, with suppliers f Engines, axels, hydraulics and wear parts showing there product lines and new inovationssuch as oil testing services and contract maintence packages.

Other displays are of professional services to help manage farms and alternative sources of income to maximise returns from the land such as solar power from wind turbines andsolar cell arrays.

Vintage Machinery DisplayEdit

Organised by Blue Force and the Notts group of the NVTEC

A selection of the vintage vehicles and machinery on show from past events are presented below;

Roadless at the 2012 event
A ferguson TEA 20 displayed with memorabilia on the NVTEC Stand in the Newark Pavilion
A Ferguson fitted with a Winsom Cab
A Fordson 9N
A Fordson Super Dexta
A David Brown 25 with the front wieghts and adjustable wheels
Rear linkage on the David Brown 25
A Ransomes 2 furrow match plough on an International 444
A collection of Implement seats as part of the NVTEC display