The 2025 Commodity Classic attendance was surprisingly close to a record. The last number I heard on my way home was 11,368 but it could have grown higher on the last day. Last year was a record at 11,530. Some of us were a little concerned about weather but it was mostly very nice. A storm system moved in on Monday afternoon but besides wind and a little rain, the snow went south of us.

We have a virtual newsroom for Classic on our AgNewsWire website. It has the link to photos I took as well as interviews and other audio like the remarks from our new Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. I want to thank Syngenta once again for making it possible to attend and get some work done! I wish I could have visited with everyone who sent me invites for booth visits or other activities. Once upon a time we could have Cindy, me and several of our freelancers attend and we were able to do much more.

A very useful tool has been our photo albums that we have in our Flickr account. There are 19 Classics in the collection which you can find here. I’ve been to more shows than that but before we started ZimmComm we were in radio and didn’t have much use for photos. Things have sure changed over the years! And we are very grateful for all the opportunities we have had to assist companies and organization with their communications and marketing efforts over the years.