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What better way to celebrate a state’s dairy products than with a butter sculpture? On Tuesday, the 2025 Ohio State Fair ...
This year's butter cow display is udderly self-aware, poking fun at the ongoing renovations at the Ohio State Fairgrounds.
The unofficial start to the 2025 Ohio State Fair is here as organizers unveiled this year’s dairy art. The American Dairy ...
The butter cow is a 122-year-old tradition that started as a butter-sculpting contest in the early 1900s. Here's what to ...
The Iowa State Fair butter sculptures were set months ago. Here's who you will see posing with the butter cow.
The theme of the butter cow display is often referred to as one of the fair's best-kept secrets leading up to opening day.
On behalf of Ohio’s dairy farmers, the 2025 butter cow display at the Ohio State Fair has a cheerful message to fairgoers: ...
The butter cow and calf at the Ohio State Fair greet over 500,000 visitors and are the largest butter sculpture display of any fair in the country. News Today's news ...
The 2022 butter cow, according to the Ohio State Fair's website, was the largest display in Ohio State Fair history, made of 2.530 pounds of better.
It's not solid butter. The core of the cow is composed of a wood, wire and steel mesh frame, and that structure is then layered with about 600 pounds (270 kilograms) of Iowa butter.
Butter cow sculptures appeared to have started with the Ohio State Fair in 1903, and the first one was displayed at the Iowa State Fair eight years later as a way to promote dairy products in ...