county fair
noun
: a fair usually held annually at a set location in a county especially to exhibit local agricultural products and livestock
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The story of Cedar the goat sparked a California bill that would allow kids to enter animals in county fairs without the risk of the animals being butchered.
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Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
His summers are filled with the Wisconsin State Fair and county fairs, truck and tractor pulls, and Summerfest.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
Get the Recipe 02 of 34 Alabama Dessert: Lane Cake
More than 100 years ago, Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama entered the annual baking competition at a county fair, and overwhelmingly won.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
The average weight of beef projects entered in the county fair varies from about 400 to 1,000 pounds, Ridgeway said, and the majority of the cattle weighed this week are likely to qualify.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
Xist helps shut down one of the two X’s in each female cell by coating the chromosome in a way that looks a bit like a cloud of cotton candy spooled around a cone at a county fair.
—Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
Glenn played country music clubs, but also county fairs, hotel ballrooms, benefit concerts and other community events from the South Bay to Bakersfield.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Last year O’Meara’s steer won for rate of gain at the county fair.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
Meisner played events like Polish Fest, Wisconsin State Fair and dozens of other county fairs, church festivals and parades.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
His summers are filled with the Wisconsin State Fair and county fairs, truck and tractor pulls, and Summerfest.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2024
Get the Recipe 02 of 34 Alabama Dessert: Lane Cake
More than 100 years ago, Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama entered the annual baking competition at a county fair, and overwhelmingly won.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
The average weight of beef projects entered in the county fair varies from about 400 to 1,000 pounds, Ridgeway said, and the majority of the cattle weighed this week are likely to qualify.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
Xist helps shut down one of the two X’s in each female cell by coating the chromosome in a way that looks a bit like a cloud of cotton candy spooled around a cone at a county fair.
—Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
Glenn played country music clubs, but also county fairs, hotel ballrooms, benefit concerts and other community events from the South Bay to Bakersfield.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Last year O’Meara’s steer won for rate of gain at the county fair.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
Meisner played events like Polish Fest, Wisconsin State Fair and dozens of other county fairs, church festivals and parades.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
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