2008 Florida Sod Growers Cooperative's Field Day & Trade Show

April 24th -25th, 2008

Bethel Farms, Ft. Pierce, Florida

Thanks to everyone who helped make this year's show a success!

The FSGC Field Day is the state’s only trade show to feature equipment, goods and services geared specifically to the needs of sod producers and those who work in the industry. This two-long event featured an afternoon of educational seminars, and evening reception and dinner, and Friday's on-farm field day with static vendor displays and demonstrations of larger equipment, ranging from spriggers to mowers to harvesters. 

Special thanks to Bethel Farms, who hosted this year's Field Day at its new Ft. Pierce farm location, and to Riverside National Bank and Diamond R Fertilizer for providing and preparing an outstanding barbeque lunch for all the attendees. 

About Bethel Farms:  Since its founding by Walter Bethel in 1958 as a small cattle and poultry operation in central Florida, Bethel Farms has blossomed into one of Florida's leading agriculture companies, producing cattle, citrus, sod and grass plugs.  Bethel Farms currently employs over 100 people on over 4,000 acres of farmland stretching throughout the southeastern United States and was twice named as one of the "Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Florida."  The Ft. Pierce sod farm location produces Sapphire and Palmetto St. Augustine and Empire Zoysia.   (Learn more at www.bethelfarms.com.)

Special thanks to our Field Day Sponsors!

Platinum Sponsors:

Bucyrus Equipment Company

Everglades Farm Equipment

Florida Challenger Dealers:

Kelly Tractor Company and Ring Power Corporation

MST Sod Equipment and Progressive Turf Equipment

Syngenta

TIMAC USA

Trebro Manufacturing

Gold Sponsors:  

Field Drainage, Florida Turfgrass Association, Wedgworth's

Silver Sponsors:  

Dieter's Sod Service, The Farm Credit Associations of Florida,

FMC Corporation, and GulfKist Sod

Bronze Sponsors:  

Angus Investments, Circle C Farms, HIAB, Inc., R.B. Farms LLC, and

Florida Foundation Seed Producers

Join us for Field Day 2009 at SMR Farms, Bradenton, Florida!