I just heard from IFAJ President Mike Wilson, Farm Futures, who is attending the 2010 IFAJ Congress. He took a minute to give me a quick update about attendance which has been impacted by the Iceland volcano.

I’d say around 120 people made it to the congress, about 40 had to cancel. We’ve heard a ton of stories about people stranded all over the world, and yet also some very heroic stories about people getting on ferries, trains and taking cars 12 to 24 hours just to get here for a few days. It’s actually been exhilarating to see this, a real statement about how people feel about the IFAJ.

I understand how those people felt who did go to extra lengths to get there. I tried having my flight route through or to another location in Europe from which I would have had a long train ride but all cities that Delta/KLM would have had to go through were closed. Oh well.

The photo is another one I took from the Congress Twitpic account.