DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The Farm Progress Show is just over a week away from returning to Decatur for the 11th time.

The Brix family owns or controls 350 of the about 600 acres the show uses on a bi-annual basis.

David and Dawn Brix went to Iowa in 2004 to see what the show would look like if it came to their land.

"I always say if we had to do it all over again exactly how it was in '05, it would be hard to do another one, but we knew every one would get easier," David Brix said, "And they have."

At first, FPS deemed Decatur to be too far west from where it wanted a permanent site.

"We were way too far west," David Brix said. "They wanted it over by the border somewhere because it was going to be the Illinois/Indiana site. We were way too far west, but Decatur threw together such a

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