Five-day attendance at the 2025 Plymouth County Fair was estimated at 120-thousand. This is down slightly from last year’s total of 125,700, but up from the 2023 attendance of 114,250. Fair Board President Jon Ahlers said that hot temperatures and heat index values of over 100 degrees on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday curbed attendance slightly. Friday during this year’s fair drew the largest crowd, estimated at 32-thousand.
The Sunday afternoon auction, benefitting the Plymouth County fair, raised more than 26-thousand dollars. Some of the top winning bids were for the quilt by Geri Dreckman which earned $2,000, the Plymouth County Pork Producers grilling event that brought in $2,500, and a chain saw carving of a bear with cardinals that secured a bid of $1,700.
The Life Skills Training Center Quilt Auction on Saturday of the fair raised over 25-thousand dollars for that organization. And the $1,000 winner of Life Skill’s “Cow Chip Bingo” was Kim Ross of Le Mars. It only took a record 45 seconds for the cow to make its winning deposit.
