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 Iowa State Fair butter sculptures were set months ago. Here's who you will see posing with the butter cow.

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 theme of the butter cow display is often referred to as one of the fair's best-kept secrets leading up to opening day.

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 ...

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.

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.

Butter sculptor Sarah Pratt and her twin daughters Hannah (left) and Grace (center) prepare Aug. 4 to finish rendering the Butter Cow’s udders at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

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 ...