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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) – The Ohio State Fair revealed its 2025 butter cow display on Tuesday. This year’s display was crafted from 2,000 pounds of butter by a group of Ohio-based sculptors.

The theme of the butter cow display is often referred to as one of the fair's best-kept secrets leading up to opening day.

The butter cow and calf now appear annually along other elements, also sculpted in butter, that carry various themes including cultural trends in Ohio. Past tributes include Darth Vader, Neil ...

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Butter sculptor Sarah Pratt and her twin daughters Hannah (left) and Grace (center) prepare Aug. 4 to finish rendering the Butter Cow’s udders at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

It's not solid butter. The core of the cow is composed of a wood, wire and steel mesh frame, and that structure is then layered with about 600 pounds (270 kilograms) of Iowa butter.

The butter cow made its debut at the Ohio State Fair in the early 1900s. Themes for the famous display, which attracts 500,000 fairgoers each year, were added in the 1960s.