Agfest

Agfest is Tasmania's great agricultural field day, run entirely by Rural Youth volunteers at Quercus Park near Carrick over three days in early May. Around 60,000 people, a remarkable share of the state's population, come for machinery, working-dog demonstrations, livestock handling, rural exhibitors and Tasmanian food and produce.

Since 1983 it has grown into one of the largest field days in the country while keeping its volunteer-run, farm-first character. It is a working event rather than a sideshow: people come to buy utes, fencing and tractors as much as to browse. Dress for autumn paddocks; May in the northern midlands is cold underfoot.