COLUMBUS – When the traditional butter sculpture returns to the Ohio State Fair for the first time in three years, it will be bigger than ever.
For the first time since 2019, the American Dairy Association Mideast’s butter cow display will be back at the Dairy Products Building at the Ohio Expo Center during the fair, which begins Wednesday and runs through Aug.2
This year’s display celebrates the fair’s agricultural roots, association officials said, and features 10 life-size butter sculptures, including the traditional cow and calf, and for the first time ever, other farm animals — a pig, a lamb and a chicken — highlighting farm families.
Typically, the butter display is made from around 2,000 pounds of butter but this year’s record-breaking sculpture is made from 2,530 pounds of butter, making it the biggest display in the fair’s 170-year history.
The display was created by expert sculptors over hundreds of hours in a 46-degree cooler and the association expects more than 500,000 fairgoers to visit the attraction.