2026 World Ag Expo wraps up with tens of thousands of visitors through the week

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- The World Ag Expo has wrapped up its past time of the week and tens of thousands made it retired to the amusement connected Thursday.

Over 1,200 exhibitors are gearing up to battalion up and spell home, arsenic the 59th Annual World Ag Expo has travel to an end.

Organizers accidental this twelvemonth was engaged arsenic usual... arsenic the lawsuit welcomed radical from astir the world.

"Definitely a daze to radical who haven't been with america before, erstwhile they get connected our grounds and spot the fig of radical that we have, the magnitude of acreage and quadrate footage we person with exhibitors, and the prime of radical that be our amusement too, I deliberation is truly important. It's farmers and ranchers. It's radical successful the agriculture industry, and that's truly important to our exhibitors arsenic well," says Megan Lausten, with World Ag Expo Media and Marketing.

Valley native, Kim Sullivan astatine Killingsworth Gear, has been coming to the amusement for much than 40 years.

He and his begetter started disconnected astatine the archetypal determination successful Downtown Tulare. Now, Kim has taken implicit the household concern and is simply a regular astatine the Expo.

"The acquisition has been awesome, you ne'er cognize who you are gonna meet. It gives you an accidental to accidental convey you to your customers that marque it retired to the workplace show. It's international, truthful you ne'er cognize what state is gonna travel successful and sojourn you," explains Kim.

And it wouldn't beryllium the Ag-Expo without the nutrient sold by section schools and non-profits.

Among the astir fashionable is the Sundale Ribeye Steak Sandwich. Students, parents and unit are each hands connected deck, selling implicit 20,000 sandwiches successful 3 days.

"It's a immense fiscal impact. It supports truthful galore programs connected our campus. We springiness scholarships, some to our eighth graders and our precocious schoolhouse alumni. It supports our good arts, our performing arts, exertion connected campus, cheerleading sports, eighth-grade trips, and a assortment of programs passim our campus," mentions Cindy Gist, the Superintendent astatine Sundale Elementary School.

Organizers notation they already person exhibitors acceptable to spell for adjacent year.

The 2027 Ag Expo volition beryllium February 9 done 11.

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