Ag In Motion 2025 organizers are celebrating a successful Day One and anticipating a similar result for the second day of the show’s run.
Rob O’Connor, show director, said Day One got off to a slightly slow start, perhaps due to air quality issues related to forest fire smoke.
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“We did notice for the first hour of the show, people were slow getting here and I wondered if perhaps that was the reason,” he said. “But at the end of the day, the streets were packed and there were a lot of people here.”
O’Connor pegged attendance at just over 9,700 on the day.
“That is a pretty strong first day,” he said.
A show highlight was the first run of the daily junior cattle show.
“That was really fun to watch and a lot of those participants and their families were really happy with things,” O’Connor said.
He also reported a packed tractor pull, and enormous interest in drone demonstrations.
“I was thrilled to see how many people went to the southeast corner of our show site to watch those drones,” he said.
High profile vistors to the site on Day One included Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and provincial agriculture minister Daryl Harrison.
Key activities for today include a continuation of the junior cattle show, a livestock happy hour and speaker series, more of the antique tractor pull, the ag tech breakfast and other activities.
A key visitor on Day Two will be Canada’s Chief Trade Commissioner Sara Wilshaw.
