Contests

We’re looking for contestants to show their stuff at the Missouri State Fair Idol competition! We’ll be out and about looking for the best singers in the area and qualifying them for the competition to be on the Missouri State Fair Bud Stage in 2016!

According to a press release, The Missouri State Fair is now accepting entries on Instagram in a new Farm Selfie “Felfie” Contest.  The contest, sponsored by AgriMissouri, encourages entrants to take a “felfie,” a photograph one has taken of oneself with farm animals, around farm equipment and/or on the farm...

The 2016 Benton County 4-H & FFA Youth Fair is coming soon to the Benton County Fairgrounds in Lincoln on Park Street. The public is invited to attend the event, which starts Wednesday, July 6 with dairy cattle at 1 p.m., sheep at 6 p.m.,...

Friday, July 1, is the deadline for entering 4-H and FFA livestock contests at this year’s Missouri State Fair. This is also the deadline for open shows for beef cattle, dairy cattle, goats, mules, poultry, rabbits, sheep and swine, according to Fair Director Mark Wolfe.

Congratulations to Alexandria Trelow of Marshall, who was the first person to send in all of the names and artists of the songs in our 60-second music montage, in the correct order. Alexandria has won her way way onto the Carnival Freedom Friends of Whiteman Cruise!

The Best from the Midwest battle it out in KC - the nation's new home for competitive air guitar! This is the Semifinal Round of US Air Guitar!

The Boys & Girls Clubs of West Central Missouri raised more than $11,000 during its third annual 5K Glow Run/Walk, held last Friday (June 10) on the campus of State Fair Community College.

How would you plan a one tank trip? Where are some of the best places around the area that you can visit on a single tank of gas?

Martina McBride's appearance at CMA Music Festival next month will include you if you win this flyaway to Nashville.

Missouri State Fair Director Mark Wolfe today announced three great entertainment options for fairgoers attending the annual event on its final weekend. Two country music concerts and auto racing will finish out the Pepsi Grandstand series at the Fair, which will be held Aug. 11-21 in Sedalia.