While Missouri is only a youth livestock show there are still quite a few people here there for that. I have spent quite a bit on the concessions that are there in the first couple of days. It seems to be picking up a bit for them as people are realizing there is no admission and you can just drive right up to the stands and buy food. Not sure why they were not able to have a carnival in Sedalia but Springfield did. There is no doubt in my mind attendance would have been steady had they not cancelled as the weather is fantastic here for August in the mid 80`s.
The shows may just not want to pull all the equipment out for one or two spots and not knowing if they will make any money or just lose money. One thing to keep in mind is that shows make money by working their way to each spot earning along the way.
If a show just has one spot to play, to send out say 50 loads or more and the results are "iffy", well you get the picture.
The show I worked for was a regional show (southeast), we had a fellow managing the second unit who was from the northeast and he wanted to take the unit up there during the spring/summer because yes there were some good spots up there. But the show owner asked about what spots he could get "on the way" up north to help pay for it and then back down south again. Long story short we never went up north because we really didn't have the route to get there and back.
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