Saturday, November 7, 2026

Question: What happens to the Farm Show’s 1,000-pound butter sculpture after the show ends?

Answer: It goes into a manure pit. The sculpture, made from scrap butter that can’t be sold, is hauled to a Juniata County dairy farm and dumped into a methane digester with cow manure and food waste. The gas it produces is turned into electricity, and one sculpture’s worth of butter can power the farm for about three days.