Des Moines, Iowa — The 2019 Iowa State Fair opened Thursday, and the iconic “butter cow” has been a part of the annual Iowa State Fair since 1911. Sarah Pratt of West Des Moines sculpted this year’s dairy cow — as she’s done each of the past 18 years.
Pratt carves a butter cow for the Illinois State Fair and does a butter sculpture for the Kansas State Fair as well.
Pratt marked the 100th anniversary of John Deere during the 2018 Iowa State Fair and sculpted — out of butter — a replica of the “Waterloo Boy” tractor.
This year, fair-goers who pass through the Agriculture Building may see the figures Pratt has made to celebrate a long-running children’s television program.
Pratt uses about 12-hundred POUNDS of butter for her Iowa State Fair carvings.
Caption: Sarah Pratt
Photo courtesy Radio Iowa.
