Steele County Free Fair

KDHL Farm Director Jerry Groskreutz samples some peach bubble tea at the Steele County Free Fair. Will the tapioca balls choke him up? Each week, Jerry will try something different. It may be exotic, it may be mundane, it may be disgusting, it may be the best thing he's ever had...

Saturday evening in the Livestock Show Arena at the Steele County Fair, Conrad Kvamme from Arlington was named the Steele County Free Fair KDHL Southern Minnesota Ag Ambassador of the Year. Kvamme was a dairy farmer and in 1972 established Space Age Dairy Sales...

I sure enjoyed going down to the Steele County Fair on Thursday afternoon. Not that it wasn't fun Tuesday or Wednesday, but it sure was nice to have a warm day with sunshine. It was a tough start to the Steele County Fair due to rain the first couple days...

This week we let KDHL Farm Director Jerry Groskreutz out of the office and took him to the Steele County Free Fair, going on now in Owatonna. There is no food more Minnesotan than hotdish. And there is no food more iconic to a fair than something on a stick...

The Steele County Fair officially began with the flag raising at 5PM. In my mind it began at 2PM with the Steele County Livestock Hall of Fame Program. This was a program that began 12 years ago. It is a great way to celebrate the rich agricultural heritage of the livestock industry in Steele County...