Fort, Forum mark 36th Agri-Business Trade Fair
As April got off to a cold start, some 3,000 farm and garden community members gathered for an annual weekend-long networking event.
“I’m not certain spring wouldn’t arrive without the Agri-Business Trade Fair, but it’s a sure sign that winter’s icy grip is loosening,” joked Tim Goff of the Fort Fairfield Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the show each year.
The trade show, held at the Forum in Presque Isle, brought together a veritable mix of the region’s rural economy, with vendors of tractors, trucks and all-terrain vehicles alongside Amish woods products businesses, the Aroostook 4-H Club, Presque Isle Community Garden and others.
“Many seeds have been planted on the floor of the Forum that have blossomed into relationships between vendors and customers that have benefited folks from throughout northern Maine and New Brunswick,” Goff said of the event’s history.
A few new businesses exhibited this year, including the forestry equipment dealer Frank Martin and Sons of Fort Kent, Aroostook Milling Supply of Houlton and Presque Isle, and Powers Roofing and Sheet Metal of Caribou, Goff noted.
