Elmore Field Days 2023: Picture galleries from the three-day event

Despite the wet weather, more than 3000 people from around Victoria have flocked to the Elmore Field Days event this week. Check out all the pictures.

Elmore’s most iconic three-day event kicked off on Tuesday, with more than 3000 visitors coming through the gates to see farm innovations and new technology.

Visitors flocked to the event in large numbers on Thursday to take advantage of the sunny weather and to experience a variety of activities including arts, crafts, herd and crop welfare, animal shows and new farm practices.

Gates opened from 8.30am each day and closed at 5pm.

See all the pictures.

Royal Flying Doctor Service educator Tom Ryan showed visitors through a portable life-size flight simulator.

Visitors were able to board the simulator and see where patients would be treated during emergencies.

Rochester Hospital nurse Charmaine Miller said these type of events were important for nurses as they are able to deliver care to the community.

Ms Miller added it also allowed people to have choices and access to first-aid resources in case of emergencies, especially due to the October floods last year.

“Rochester is very displaced,” she said.

It’s been more than 12 months since the Rochester Hospital was evacuated due to flooding and is still unable to operate.

Dairy farmer Andrew Turvey, of Koondrook, attended the field day on Thursday to buy equipment.

He was shown some of the stock by Oliver Cooper, aged eight, who was helping to man his grandparents stand, Eastern Spreaders agricultural machinery.

Upper Murray Seeds representative Damien Glass said the rain had not stopped people from coming through.

“They just pulled on their gumboots and rain jackets and came out,” he said.

“The weather wasn’t going to stop them.”

Mr Glass showed visitors a range of produce grown from seeds developed at the company’s research station in Queensland.