I have to confess that working in air conditioning beats the 102 degrees in the media tent around noon yesterday! It may have been a cooker out there but this year’s Farm Progress Show was great in a lot of ways. Attendance seems fantastic and with the great weather all of the demonstrations were able to run as scheduled. This is a shot from the final morning when I got a little exercise climbing a Brock grain bin.

To find out how the show was going I caught up with Farm Progress Show manager, Matt Jungemann. Matt says that Tuesday was a record attendance and speculated that Wednesday was too. We chatted about one of the big sponsors of the show (and AgWired), GROWMARK. GROWMARK has been one of the foundation partners since the beginning of the dedicated Decatur show site. They support the host farmers in a number of ways that include the alfalfa in the parking lots, seed/fertilizer/inputs for demonstration fields and demo plots. As Matt points out, there is a lot of work on planning things like alfalfa field rotations.

You can listen to my interview with Matt here: Interview with Matt Jungemann

Cindy and I did a little summary this morning to figure out just what we’ve done regarding Farm Progress Show this year. So here’s what we came up with: 889 total photos, 46 interviews/press conferences, 4 videos, 19 posts on AgWired so far and 7 on Precision Pays. That doesn’t count content produced for other client sites. We’ve got lots more to come!

2011 Farm Progress Show Photo Album