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 unofficial start to the 2025 Ohio State Fair is here as organizers unveiled this year’s dairy art. The American Dairy ...

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.

What better way to celebrate a state’s dairy products than with a butter sculpture? On Tuesday, the 2025 Ohio State Fair ...

The classic state fair tradition began in the early 1900s, with the first-ever butter cow debuting in 1903. Figures with a theme were added to the display in the 1960s.

This year's butter cow display is udderly self-aware, poking fun at the ongoing renovations at the Ohio State Fairgrounds.

The Ohio State Fair's 2013 butter sculptures includes a life-size cow and calf with an additional salute to the All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir's 50th anniversary and its founder Glenville D. Thomas.

The butter cow made its debut at the Ohio State Fair in the early 1900s. Themes for the famous display, which attracts 500,000 fairgoers each year, were added in the 1960s.

A life-size butter sculpture of Josephine Cochrane, who was born in Ashtabula County, stands beside her invention, the hand-powered dishwasher, in the 2023 butter cow display at the Ohio State Fair.

A team of technical sculptors spent over 600 hours creating this year’s butter sculptures out of more than 2,500 pounds of butter, making it the biggest display ever at the Ohio State Fair. After a ...