On-site coverage of major agricultural events has been the mainstay of what ZimmComm has done as a company with AgWired and AgNewsWire, but starting in the new year we are curtailing our business travel after over 20 years and nearly 900 events around the world.

Since 2005, we have traveled at least once to 38 states to cover a conference, meeting, field day or other event. The state with the most events has been Missouri at 112. So many of those were industry meetings like NAMA and NAFB in Kansas City and St. Louis. In second place is Iowa with 85 events, then Illinois and Florida tied at 70 each.

Internationally, we traveled to Germany ten times and Canada eight times, Belgium and Italy a couple of times. But there were many others with IFAJ in Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. I also traveled with the Grains Council back in the day, visiting Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Petra, and Mexico. All of the place we’ve been are represented in the 980 photo albums in our Flickr account. We have 226,488 photos in those albums that have viewed a total of 51,125,196 views.

Check out our Album Collections page to find 20 years of agricultural meetings – from Ag Media Summit and the American Coalition for Ethanol to Cattle Industry Conventions, Commodity Classics, Farm Bureau and Farm Progress Show, National Biodiesel and National Ethanol, peanuts and cotton – you name it.

We are happy to say that we will be able to continue doing photos and interviews and virtual newsrooms for several of our long time clients by retaining the services of others to do the on-site work, while we do the posting and distribution from home.

We are very pleased to announce that two of the first 2026 events will be handled for us on-site by Laura McNamara, one of our very first freelancers back in 2007-2008 after she graduated from Mizzou and she covered many events for us at the time, showcasing her exceptional photographic talent at places like the 2007 Indy 500. She has been around the world since that time and evolved even more as a top-notch photographer – including doing our youngest daughter’s wedding in Cancun 11 years ago. She married and has the most adorable four-year-old boy and is now settled back in the Midwest near St. Louis. We have a great deal of confidence in her abilities and look forward to having her as our face on the road. The first place you will see her is the Beltwide Cotton Conferences January 7-9, 2026 in San Antonio, and then the 2026 Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau Annual Meeting in Indian Wells, California, February 4-6.

We are basically just burnt out on air travel. In just the past two years we have had some of the worst travel experiences ever, and now that Delta and Southwest have both changed their policies and benefits, we just said enough is enough, we’re staying home with the dogs!

We’re not going away – we’re just implementing a work from home policy!