The Iowa State Fair Butter Cow is one of the biggest draws for the hundreds of thousands of fairgoers every year, and now ...

WHO 13's Teodora Mitov shares the story behind the 2025 Iowa State Fair Butter Sculptures. "There is no defense of this." ...

The State Fair saw 118,454 people attend the third day on Saturday, Aug. 9. In 2024, 128,732 people attended day three of the ...

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 one ...

When representatives from the Smithsonian of American Art visited the Iowa State Fair butter cow artist Sarah Pratt, she was overjoyed to just show them a few of her sculpting tools. When she realized ...

KETV reporter visited the Iowa State Fair in 1991 to find out what all the buzz was about. He found everything from dancers channeling their inner Madonna to a soap opera star signing autographs and ...

Over the weekend, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., traveled to Iowa in what could be a prelude to a presidential run in 2028. The ...

Fairgoers stop to view the butter sculptures, the cow, Caitlin Clark, Kurt Warner and Jack Trice, on the first day of the Iowa State Fair, on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Des Moines.

Iowa State Fair officials said Wednesday that a butter "Field of Dreams" will be the feature butter sculpture alongside the Butter Cow this year. It's the 25th anniversary of the "Field of Dreams ...

Drawing on the State Fair's theme "Adventure Awaits," the Butter Cow is joined by an adventure seeking companion.

The 2023 Iowa State Fair runs 11 days, Aug. 10-20, with the annual parade kicking things off Aug. 9 in downtown Des Moines.

August 13, 2019 More than 5 years ago Sarah Pratt works on her butter sculptures at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 9. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) ...