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Fairest of the Fair helps educate fairgoers about ag

Being Fairest of the Fair means spending a lot of time promoting and educating fairgoers who often have a lot of questions.

Kelsey Henderson from Racine County is Wisconsin’s 2024 Fairest of the Fair, and she tells Brownfield much of her schedule involves interacting with the public, and answering their questions. “Connecting the producers with the consumers, and being able to share that story of where your milk and where your food comes from.”

Henderson says people ask her about what animals eat, where milk comes from, and a lot of questions about what they see in the show rings. “I think one of my favorite questions I’ve gotten from kids is when they’re watching shows and ask, ‘What are they judging?’ and so I think that’s a really unique opportunity to talk about all of our different species from the dairy cows to the pigs, to the rabbits, to the goats, to beef cattle, you name it.”

Henderson encourages people to go into the barns and ask questions. “I think it’s really a cool learning experience to listen to a judge or ask an exhibitor in the barn what they do and why they do it because maybe, you’ll learn something new.”