The Iowa State Fair's iconic butter cow is making room for some funny friends from the "Tonight Show" in her cooler. You can meet the butter versions of "Tonight Show ...

Iowa's iconic butter cow may well reach its zenith next year. After decades on display at the Iowa State Fair, a butter cow crafted by Cumming, Iowa, sculptor Sarah Pratt will make its debut at ...

Iowa is famous for the butter cows at its state fair. But a recent Tweet revealed something shocking. The butter cows aren't made entirely of butter? Iowa is famous for its farming and that one ...

The butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. After the 2025 state fair ends, the iconic butter cow will be sculpted at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Butter artist Sarah Pratt will travel to ...

shows the Illinois State Fair Butter Cow shaven down to reveal the framework under the butter. (The 2023 state fairs in both Illinois and Iowa concluded on Aug. 20.) “I feel deceived.

Since 2006, Sarah Pratt of West Des Moines has wielded her sculpting tools and used butter to shape the butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. This year, the ode to the butter cow gets a companion ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The butter cow sculpture has been a time-honored tradition of the Iowa State Fair since 1911. It's been shown to generations of Iowans, on proud display inside of the ...

DES MOINES — Since its debut in 1911, the Iowa State Fair’s Butter Cow has involved about 600 pounds of pure cream butter, four hoofs and a couple handfuls of buttery fingers. In those 113 ...

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 ...