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Main Events
Previous Main Events
- Rodeo - Roughstock and Barrels Circuit Challenge
- QR Silver Spike
- Tania Kernaghan
- Lee Kernaghan
- Export Pavilion-Department of State Development & Innovation
- Bundaberg Region Tourism Centre Stage
- Friendlies Pavilion
- Department of Primary Industries & Natural Resources Pavilion
- Eljay Driessens Stunt Riding Entertainment
- Travelling Fish Show
- Harvey Norman Electrical Celebrity Chefs- 5 local personalities
- Working Dog Trials-Friday & Saturday
- Wide Bay Australia Ping Pong Drop-Saturday
- WIN Whitsunday Island Holiday-5 days for 2 people
- Helicopter Joy Flights
- Bush Poets Competition-Saturday
- Bundaberg Antique Machinery Display
- Camelot Park Camel Rides
- Rod Bryant Entertains
- Bundaberg Vintage Vehicle Club
- American Civil War Re-enactment
- Agro-Trend Hostesses
In addition to siteholders, a comprehensive program of entertainment, seminars and performances enhances the relaxed, fun atmosphere of Agro-Trend. For example:
- The Harvey Norman Electrical Celebrity Chefs, featuring 5 local personalities, staged cooking demonstrations.
- This year fishing enthusiasts can learn how to cast a lure and catch the “big one” at The Australian Traveling Fishing Show, while the Working Dog Cattle Trials was a spectator’s delight.
- For the first time ever at Agro-Trend, an Export Pavillion shared with the public the international success of local business and provided many surprises for visitors.
- Musical and theatrical acts were also extremely well received, particularly by patrons wanting to take a break.
- Site holders wanting to further “sell” their product or service beyond their site were encouraged to participate in a seminar program in a specially designated marquee.
The organisation of an entertainment program as a complement to traditional field day acitivities will continue at Agro-Trend.
Lee Kernaghan
 Meet Lee Kernaghan in person!
Lee will be at Agro-Trend on Friday May 5 between 10am and 1pm, to launch his "The New Bush" album.
See Lee Kernaghan at the Kix FM site - Green 29
Helecopter Joy Flights
 Take in the sights of Bundaberg, Rum Factory and the picturesque Burnett River from only $50.
See Bundy from the air and treat yourself to a ‘birds-eye-view’ at Agro-Trend 2006 (extended personal flights may be arranged).
Overfly Helicopters have been operating in the Bundaberg region for over four years providing aerial services including, agricultural spraying, seeding, fertilizing, flying training, photography and charter - phone 0427 973 311.
Australian Traveling Fishing Show
 An exciting 12 metre long, 1.2 metre wide and 1.6 metre deep, 14,500 litre aquarium glass-sided semi trailer filled with water, natural environment, and some of Australia's most enticing game fish, including the famous Barramundi.
The shows are both educational and entertaining. Experienced fishing pros will be conducting fishing seminars from on top of the tank, offfering demonstrations of various types of sport fishing equipment, and showing all phases of how a fish is caught, how a lure will move in the water, and how different fish react.
 Here visitors can receive expert information from experienced anglers as they watch various seminars conducted throughout the show. Watch in amazement as some of the best anglers in this country share their secrets and get the fish to react right before your eyes!
Harvey Norman Electrical Celebrity Chefs with the NewsMail's Shirley Baldwin
 Come and see 5 local personalities (yet to be finalised) cook up some tantalising dishes under the guidance of Shirley. They may not have their own television shows or line of kitchen utensils, and they probably can't shuck an oyster and dice a carrot at the same time. However, the cooks who will participate in the Harvey Norman Electrical Celebrity Chef at Agro-Trend 2006 will impress visitors by preparing really easy, REAL meals.
At the end of the last session on Saturday, all the appliances used and supplied by Harvey Norman Electrical, were auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. And of course, taste-testing of each celebrity chef's creation was available after each session.
HeartStart at Agro-Trend
When at Agro-Trend consider not only the latest in agricultural machinery, technology or services but about making improvements for your health. Visit the HeartStart stand for a free blood pressure and heart health assessment or visit the Healthy Lifestyle stand for guidelines on being physically active.
You will find both stands in Marquee 4. Make a visit and invest something in you health.
Enjoy life... Be smoke free, eat healthy foods and be physically active!
HearStart is a health promotion, chronic disease prevention and cardiac recovery program in the Bundaber region.
Working Dog Trials 2006
 The third annual Working Cattle Dog Trial will be held at Agro-Trend, Bundaberg on Friday and Saturday from 8.00am. Competitors and their dogs are expected to travel from Central, Southern and South West Queensland for the event with at least 40 entries expected in each of the Maiden, Novice and Open Trials.
The trial commences with three cattle being let out of a yard for the dog to cast around and bring them back and hold in the holding area where the handler is. When this is completed the handler, cattle and dog proceed around a designated course to be complete when the cattle are put out of the arena at the finishing yard. Time allowed to complete the course is 6 minutes.
 The combined Maiden and Novice trial will be held on Friday 5th May with the final of the top scoring dogs to be held at approx 2.30pm. The Open Trial will be held on Saturday 6th May with the final of the top scoring dogs to be held at approx 2pm.
Any stockmen and women who would like to compete are most welcome to come and test their own and their dogs' skill. To nominate please phone Barrie or Elizabeth Hughes on (07) 4157 9575.
For more information 'click here'.
Dog Agility Demonstrations
 A first ever event for our Field Days and it promises to be a real winner for the families who visit Agro-Trend on Saturday 6 this year.
Agility is a team sport where the handler is in charge of strategy and their dog is responsible for the athleticism. Dogs leap over hurdles, power through tunnels, zip through a slalom of upright poles and scale ramps of different sizes. The aim is to find the balance between control of the dog and the speed of the performance. Scoring is based on faults, similar to equestrian show jumping. A dog that completes the obstacles correctly within the set time will ear a Clear Round. Dogs then earn titles when they achieve a set number of clear rounds.
Demonstrations will be held continuously during the course of the day with two competing teams courtesy of Fraser Coast Agility Dogs Club. Each team comprising of dogs ranging from toy size through to giant breeds and varying levels of competency.
Antique Machinery Display
 Club members of the Bundaberg Branch of the Antique Machinery Resortation Society of Queensland Inc, have been associated with Agro-Trend scince its conception in 1978. With 1979 being the only exception. The group of exhibitors then formed the club in 1998 as a branch of the Antique Machinery Restoration Society of Queensland Inc.
Our main event of the year is our display at Agro-Trend where many varied displays are presented. We also participate in the Pagent of Lights Parade in December, Australia Day ceremonies at Tegege, Bucca or wherever they are held. Woodgate Easter Fair, Bundaberg Show and any other events that we are invited to attend.
We have aproximately 44 members at present, and we welcome new members and visitors to our meetings, which are held on the third thursday of each month. Our meetings are held in the U.3. A. rooms in Woongarra Street starting at 7.30pm.
Club contacts: President Ray Evans 7141 515 481, Secretary Loraine Barsby 7141 515 576.
Ladies Fashion Parades
Over all three days!
Rod Bryant
 Performing LIVE from 10.00am each day with a superb mix of yesterdays and todays best songs.
Rod Bryant was born in Bundaberg and gained his early musical experience in the field of brass music with the Bundaberg Municipal Band and was duly awarded life membership. His move into country music came in December 1983, with the inception of the Bundaberg Country Music Club of which he is a foundation member and awarded life membership.
Rod has appeared extensively at Tamworth and has enjoyed performing with and backing numerous national recording artists. To date he provides regular local entertainment - country/middle of the road music for all occasions and on the festival circuit enjoys adjudicating/comparing and the camaraderie that music brings.
Bob McLean
 The most enduring voice of Agro-Trend - PA announcer Bob McLean - is back in 2006 to make sure nobody misses a moment of the action.
Bob McLean was the man behind the microphone at Agro-Trend for 24 years until 2003, when he had a long-deserved break. However, Mr McLean is looking forward to once again being involved in Agro-Trend and lending his years of public speaking experience to the event.
Although he now resides in Logan, south of Brisbane, Mr McLean was a long time Bundaberg resident. Mr McLean lent his smooth voice to a number of private and community events - from being a trackside commentator at Carina Speedway to providing poolside New Years Eve entertainment Don Pancho Resort in Bargara.
At Agro-Trend, Mr McLean's task will be to keep visitors abreast of the latest information on Agro-Trend attractions, provide information on products, reunite lost property and their owners and perhaps even children with their parents.
To make sure you don't miss out on anything, keep you ears open for Bob McLean - at Agro-Trend.
HeartStart Program
A successfull HeartStart program at Agro-Trend 2005
A great team effort saw the HeartStart stand at Agro-Trend provide just over 400 people with heart and blood pressure checks. We also distributed 200 health show bags containing information on HeartStart, cardiovascular disease, stroke, good nutrition and heart health. A "Monduran" mandarin kindly donated by Jim Mullett was also placed in each show bag.
A number of people were identified with undiagnosed hypertension. Of those completing the cardiovascular disease (CVD) lifestyle risk assessment about 10% were at excessive risk of CVD, 70% at high risk, 15% moderate risk and 5% low risk. The main CVD risk factor identified was poor nutrition with only a few people achieving an adequate intake of vegetables. A majority of people were not engaging in sufficient physical activity to achieve cardiovascular benefits. A majority of people were also overweight with a BMI over 25.
Thanks to Tracey Schouten, John Gamlin, Annette Cousins, Jenny Hinds, Emma Shears, Lorna Marcus, Ted Richardson, Alan Spencer and Sharon Rowe for helping make it all happen and for the success of the HeartStart stand at Agro-Trend 2005.
Enjoy life... be smoke free, eat healthy foods and be physically active!
HeartStart is a health promotion, chronic disease prevention and cardiac recovery program in the Bundaberg Region
American Civil War Re-enactment
Marquees
- The Craft Marquee No.5
Comprising some 30 sites and has a whole range of interesting exhibitors.
- Marquee No.4
Among 24 sites there is the ever popular Men's Health Check-Up Centre.
- Marquees No.1/6
28 Sites showcasing the latest in technology to tourism, apprenticeships, wineries, air-conditioning and a whole lot more!
Bush Poetry, Ballads, and Yarns Shows
 The art of Storytelling is as old as the first inhabitants of this land. From the time of early aboriginal dreamtime, down to the first white pioneer settlers, the art of sharing the tales of this countries many colourful characters and its way of life has been carried on down to our day.
Following in the footsteps of Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Kath Walker, Slim Dusty, Stan Coster and Keith Garvey, Bush Poets and Yarnspinners, Chris and The Grey aka Chris and Merv Webster along with Bush Balladeers, Buddy Thomson and Lynne Bennett share the Laughter and Tears of the Bush in their Bush Poetry, Ballads and Yarns Shows on Friday and Saturday.
| Friday |
12.00 midday |
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1.00 p.m. |
Main tent |
| Saturday |
11.00 a.m. |
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12.00 midday |
Main tent |
THE APPRENTICE BULLOCKY
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The paint chipped ledge above the fire was where it always lay,
I know because he placed it there when grandma passed away.
Though ragged and now water stained, it held his life you see;
that album full of photographs he often shared with me.
Each picture told a wondrous tale, which granddad told with zest
and though he stretched the truth at times, I loved those stories best.
My fav'rite was about the year he drove a bullock team
from Maitland to the border town of Gundy it would seem.
"That year dad made the journey north with Ma and all the kids,
I was the eldest, at the time, of all his billy lids.
Apprentice bullocky I was and worked along with dad;
deliv'ring stores on two large drays pulled by two teams he had."
"A motley lot of beasts they were, though each had roles to play;
the polers, pins and body beasts and leaders pulled that dray.
I fought the flies and blist'ring sun and choked on thick red dust
and natur'lly I learnt to swear, much to my Ma's disgust."
"I learnt to bellow crude commands and 'ply the greenhide goad,
whilst taking time to clear the dust by spitting on the road.
The neck of each beast bowed down low beneath its wooden yoke,
but when the teams were bogged right down, it was no flam'in joke."
"Despite the many obstacles that near brought us undone,
I'd managed to get through them all; that's all except but one.
Till then I felt I'd pulled my weight and clung to that belief,
but when we reached the Whelan Creek my theory came to grief."
"The McIntyre had run a bank, which filled the Whelan Creek,
and did not look like dropping for at least another week.
Dad didn't plan on staying put, so took to looking 'round;
another way of getting through was what had to be found."
"We searched for hours along its bank, then found this giant tree,
which towered some three hundred feet, but hollow as can be.
The girth was darn gigantic lad, though only one foot thick,
then dad revealed how that old tree would surely do the trick."
"For hours dad gathered fire wood and placed it 'round its girth,
inspiring Ma and all us kids to do our two bob's worth.
Dad's theory was if he could fell that tree across the creek,
we'd walk the teams right through at dawn. Hang waiting 'round a week."
"By morn the girth was all but gone, dad's wedges did the rest;
and with his kelly struck them home; his theory passed the test.
The old tree creaked and gave a groan then crashed on to its side,
across the creek just as dad planned while we watched on with pride."
"Within the hour dad walked his team into that hollow tree;
us kids and Ma we watched in awe. It was a sight to see.
Dad said to give him half an hour then I should follow suit
and though the team showed nervousness, we followed in pursuit."
"Dad safely out the other side then waited patiently,
expecting any moment-like to see the team and me.
But when a half hour passed on by, he figured something wrong
and thought I should be out by now; what's taking him so long?"
"He set back off into the tree to have a look about,
though couldn't find a sign of us so thought he'd cooee out.
I heard the echo in the dark and cooeed back to him,
till finally dad found us all, stuck up its only limb."
©Bush Poet and Balladeer
Merv Webster
The Goondiwindi Grey
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'Anon' Woman's Fashion
 Ben Smith is best known for his earlier collections under his own signature. After graduating from UTS in 2001 having sold his graduate collection to the prestigious store ‘Browns’ in London the Ben Smith collection was born. First presented as part of the New Generation Group show at MAFW 2002; Pavement magazine said the ‘collection showed glimmers of greatness’. He continued to build his label interspersed with various freelancing assignments. In 2004 he presented his first solo show at MAFW, with the London trade paper ‘Drapers Record’ calling it ‘the most original collection of the week.’ In 2005 he opened a small boutique and presented his spring summer 06 collection there with Harpers Bazaar declaring him ‘the one to watch’. After closing the boutique in 2007 and spending 6 months in NYC Ben returned to Australia to begin work on the ‘Anon.’ label.
The focus on the ‘Anon.’ collection is timeless clothes that are chic and effortless. Harking a return of understated elegance, with plays on modern classics like the shirt-dress, wrap dress and wide legged pant. The collection is carefully considered and nuanced to flatter women, featuring beautiful fabrics that fall and move with the wearer. The success of the collection lies in the ability of the pieces to be styled for all occasions and lifestyles.
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