Dates & Show Times - 2025

August 20 1pm - 7pm
August 21 9am - 3pm

Location

Washington County Fair Park & Conference Center - 3000 County Hwy PV, West Bend, WI 53095

Reasons to Attend BuyerFest:

• Catch up with all your old friends from the industry
• Get Inspired with New Plant Material in our trial garden and plant material pavilion! 
• Great New Products & Vendors!
• Learn something new from all the education seminars!
• Great food and prizes!
• Cash & Carry: One-of-a-kind deals on discontinued and overstock products. All items are strictly first come, first served. Don't forget your trailer!

Accommodations

Country Inn & Suites
2000 Gateway Court, West Bend, WI 53716
262-334-9400

Comfort Inn & Suites
W227N16890 Tillie Lake Ct. Jackson, WI 53034
262-677-1133

Hampton Inn & Suites
1975 S. 18th Ave. West Bend, WI 53095
262-438-1500

Show Schedule

Wednesday, August 20

12pm: Registration and Cash & Carry Open

1pm: Trade Show Floor Open

1:30pm: Alicia Rihn
“Plants are Experiential Goods – How to Engage Customers”

2pm: Milwaukee Tool Demonstration

2:30pm: Chris Currey
“Retail Therapy - Maximizing Plant Quality and Minimizing Labor”

3:30pm: Caleb Wilson & Scott Sterling
“Proper Application Techniques for Maximum Efficiency”

4pm: Milwaukee Tool Demonstration

4:30 – 6pm: Dinner Available

6pm: Ange Niestuchowski-Rowden
“Planting Demonstration”

6:45pm: Prize Announcements, Cash & Carry Closed, Show Ends

 

Thursday, August 21

9am: Registration, Trade Show, Cash & Carry Open

9am: Chris Currey
“PGRs - A Perennial Production Primer”

10am: Alicia Rihn
“Who Started Gardening During the Pandemic and What are They Doing Now?”

10:30: Milwaukee Tool Demonstration

11am: Caleb Wilson & Scott Sterling
“Proper Application Techniques for Maximum Efficiency”

11:30am – 1pm: Lunch Available

12:30pm: Milwaukee Tool Demonstration

1pm: Evan Croft
“Focus on Energy: Greenhouse Overview”

2pm: Ange Niestuchowski-Rowden
“Planting Demonstration”

2:45pm: Prize Announcements, Cash & Carry Closed, Show Ends

(schedule subject to change without notice)

Exhibiting Vendors

Advancing Alternatives
Amerilux International
Anderson Company
AP & G
Arkion
Atticus
Attune Ag
Austram
Bartlett Instruments
Belden Plastics
Berger Horticultural
Bioline Agrosciences
BioWorks
Blacksmith BioScience
Braun
Cherokee
Coast of Maine
Commercial Growers of WI
DCM USA
Dosatron
DRAMM
EC Grow
Eckert's Greenhouse
Environmental Plant Management
Focus on Energy
Galema's Greenhouse
Get Group
Growscape
Hortica Insurance
HyR BRIX
ICL Group
J&D Manufacturing
Jack's Fertilizers
La Crosse Seed
Lambert Peat Moss
Mast Young Plants
Midwest Perlite
Midwest Wire Works
Milwaukee Tool
Mycorrhizal Applications
Modine
National Salt & Supply
Natural Beauty Growers
Oasis Grower Solutions
OHP, Inc.
Old Castle/Jolly Gardener
Pack Manufacturing
Plantpeddler
Poly-Ag
Poly-Tex
RediRoot
Regal Gift
Rimol Greenhouse Systems
RKW Klerks
Scenic Road
SePro
Sol Soils
Sonco
Syngenta
T.O. Plastics
Terra Products
The Andersons
Very Cool Stuff
Wadsworth Control Systems
Western Pulp Products

Sponsors