State Fair

A few years ago, you may remember my wife and I took a trip to Mackinac Island. The Missouri State Fair is known for great foods from all around the country. You can have corn dogs, funnel cakes, fried Oreos and whatever else, but if you walk through the Ag Building the smell of fudge is ever present when you walk through the door...

One of the main portions of the Missouri State Fair is to give kids an avenue to showcase their skills and talents. The 4H building does this year after year by allowing kids to do live demonstrations, show off photos, baked goods, projects and more...

Today is the first and last Monday of the Missouri State Fair. We hope you head out and enjoy Farm Bureau/Farm Family Day. You can celebrate Missouri Farm families by getting gate admission, carnival wristband and Championship Truck & Tractor Pull coupons at the County Farm Bureau offices. ...

Here are the photos from the concert of Easton Corbin and Justin Moore last night(8/15)  

(SEDALIA, Mo.) – Sydney Tomlin, daughter of Mike and Barb Tomlin, is the exhibitor of the 2015 Grand Champion Market Lamb at the Missouri State Fair.  Sydney is from Unionville, MO, and a member of the Classic Kids 4-H Club. Sydney’s prize-winning Hampshire lamb weighed 137 pounds...

(SEDALIA, Mo.) – Austin Boland, son of David and Rene Boland, is the exhibitor of the 2015 Grand Champion Market Barrow at the Missouri State Fair.  Austin is from Sweet Springs, MO, and is a member of the Sweet Springs FFA Chapter. Austin’s prize-winning Crossbred barrow weighed 273 pounds...

The 2015 Missouri State Fair opening weekend has been a great one. The fun continues today with it being military appreciation day, brought to you by Iland. There will be free gate admission for active military, veterans & delayed entry recruits with appropriate I.D. ...

Miss Destiny Reed from Hannibal was named the 2015 Missouri State Fair Queen in a ceremony held yesterday (Aug. 14). Miss Reed received the highest score of 55 contestants vying for the title in the two-day competition held in the Mathewson Exhibition Center. Miss Reed will reign over the remaining State Fair events and be an ambassador for the State Fair and Missouri agriculture throughout the co

One of my favorite things to do during the Missouri State Fair is to take a look at some of the new innovations that vendors bring. Each year there always seems to be something that really catches the eye or imagination from kitchenware to gardening to toys for the kids to new spins on food...

The Pepsi Grandstand may get a lot of the luster and talk, along with the Bud Stage, but the Missouri State Fair is full of free entertainment on the Touchstone Energy Stage, Ditzfield Stage and Kids Stage throughout the Missouri State Fairgrounds...