SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Spring is just 2 months away, which has many farmers getting ready for planting season.

The Sioux Falls Farm Show is something Abrey Scherff has been attending his whole life.

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“Just the local businesses we work with, the manufacturers seeing new things, honestly being local, just running into people. I know it’s kind of a tradition, I guess you’d say,” farmer, Abrey Scherff said.

A tradition that continues to grow. This year the farm show has more than 340 vendors, with around 60 new ones, including Persistent Biocontrol.

“Our technology came out of my father’s lab at Cornell University, and we sell these microscopic worms that attack soil insects. So you spray them on your field, and they go down and hunt down corn rootworm and kill them,” Persistent Biocontrol Owner, Keegan Shields said.

While people inside the farm show are happy, out in the fields is a different situation with drought conditions across KELOLAND for months. It’s something that’s on the front of the minds of farmers.

“Driving around, looking at bare fields and dry tile lines and, you know, stock dams and things that are spring fed in our area that I’m not so sure are spring fed anymore because they’re dry. Everything’s dry. We need the moisture, there’s no doubt about it,” Scherff said.

As they wait for rain or snow, the event offers a way for farmers to prepare for the season.

“It’s the only place that you can come that you’re sort of like, I use the word neutral turf. They can see everything they want to see. You don’t have to go to a dealer. They’re here,” Sioux Falls Farm Show manager, Ronald Bormaster said.

The Sioux Falls farm show is running Wednesday through Friday.