Minnesota’s Farmfest back after a year off

Rural Minnesota’s largest annual gathering of farmers gets underway on Tuesday after calling it off last year because of the pandemic.

Farmfest, the three-day farm show in Redwood County that has typically drawn tens of thousands of visitors from around the Upper Midwest, runs Tuesday through Thursday on a 50-acre site about 10 miles southeast of Redwood Falls.

The site was buzzing Monday afternoon with organizers and exhibitors as they set up equipment and put final touches on their displays.

“Folks are anxious, especially in the rural communities, to get back out and engage with their neighbors,” said Melissa Sanders Carroll, the executive director of the IDEAg Group, a promotions and marketing company established by the American Farm Bureau to put on Farmfest and several other agriculture trades shows around the country.

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