Rupanyup Major Events

19/01/2026

09/11/2025

UPDATE!! MR CROC HAS BEEN FOUND

If you’ve attended the Barley Banquet in years gone past you’d know our beloved band Seven Car Pileup have a giant blue croc (the shoe) as their mascot.
This year that croc was taken from the Banquet at the end of the day and the fellas are very upset about it!
If anyone knows anything - please reach out to us. You can return it no questions asked.
Otherwise, we have GoPro footage from the band with some suss handling of the blue croc on it…

30/10/2025

Arguably one of the most important aspects of the Barley Banquet is the unwavering volunteer support we receive from local community members in the bar, in the kitchen and behind the scenes.

We never take their support for granted and appreciate it so much, year after year. THANK YOU to our local Rupanyup Lions Club and volunteers within the community who step up massively on the day to help us out! 🌾

30/10/2025

More thank yous are in order for the 28th Annual Barley Banquet, and this is a very special one - THANK YOU to our excellent entertainment Seven Car Pileup & Darryn Wardle and Jeff Woodward!

We couldn’t be luckier to have such talent involved in the Barley Banquet, and the willingness to come back and perform at the Banquet year after year is so special to us!

Thanks fellas 🌾

29/10/2025

Continuing on with saying THANK YOU to those involved in the 2025 Barley Banquet…

To Wimmera Party Ice - a massive shoutout for supplying all of the ice to keep our drinks as cold as could be on a warm day!

We’d love to say a massive thank you to our catering team, Saltimbocca Catering! Always a well oiled machine, creating beautiful meals for us all to enjoy.

To Rightbank Brewery - we were so excited to have you on board this year and you nailed it- thanks so much for coming!

29/10/2025

THANK YOU SPONSORS 🌾

Now that the dust has settled… there are some massive THANK YOUs we need to catch up on for the 2025 Barley Banquet!

A massive thank you once again to all of our wonderful sponsors for the 28th Annual Barley Banquet. All of your contributions are essential to our committee and event and very much appreciated by our community!

Thank you so much to:

Australian Grain Export (formerly the Wimmera Grain Company)
Nutrien Ag
Grand Events
Emmett’s
Wimmera Design & Print
Hip Pocket Workwear
Seppelt Winery
Pacific Seeds
Traction Ag
Bendigo Bank
Michaels of Donald
Hopkins River Beef
ACE Radio & the Weekly Advertiser
Marnco
Riordans
Precision Control Australia
AgLeader
Pioneer
Goldacres
Priceline Pharmacy
MGA Insurance Brokers
Johnson Asahi
Watts Price Accounting
Stawell Toyota
Ahrens
PP&U
Dalcross

16/10/2025

TWO MORE SLEEPS…

The 2025 Barley Banquet is in just two days!

We’re so excited to see you all there ✨

16/10/2025

Introducing Australian Grain Export (formerly the Wimmera Grain Company) as our NAMING SPONSORS for the 28th Annual Barley Banquet.

This is AGE/Wimmera Grain’s 28th year of being the naming sponsor for the Barley Banquet, and we truly mean it when we say thank you for contributing so much to our event and the wider community over the years!

16/10/2025

A huge shoutout to our DIAMOND SPONSOR for this year’s Barley Banquet.

Without our sponsors - the event simply would not go ahead! Their contributions mean we can support important local community projects to go ahead, benefiting the whole area.

Thank you Nutrien Ag!

16/10/2025

RESALE…
There are a limited amount of tickets that are able to be purchased last minute!

Please message the RME page if you are looking for tickets and we will send you a code in order to purchase them!

15/10/2025

A very, very big thank you to our GOLD SPONSORS for the 28th Annual Barley Banquet!

Grand Events keep us out of whatever weather we are contending with on the day with their magnificent marquees, and supply us with most of our very important hire equipment needed on the day!

We are so grateful for their continued support ✨

15/10/2025

A massive thank you to our CORPORATE SPONSORS for the 2025 Barley Banquet!