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 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 butter cow and calf now appear annually along other elements, also sculpted in butter, that carry various themes including cultural trends in Ohio. Past tributes include Darth Vader, Neil ...

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 display is presented by the American Dairy Association Mideast, Ohio’s dairy farmer-funded marketing and promotion program. It’s a long-standing tradition that attracts more ...

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.

On behalf of Ohio’s dairy farmers, the 2025 butter cow display at the Ohio State Fair has a cheerful message to fairgoers: ...

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.

In 1911, a guy named J. K. Daniels sculpted a cow out of butter and sent it along to the annual Iowa State Fair. To this day, about 600 pounds of butter is spread upon a wood-and-metal frame in a ...

The Illinois State Fair has its own in-cow-ceivable mascot: A life-size, hand-sculpted replica of a dairy cow — made entirely out of hundreds of pounds of butter. It's a tradition that goes back ...