by Marshall Griffin | Mar 21, 2024 | Agriculture, News
Some major draws for the annual Missouri State Fair won’t be happening this year. State Fair director Jason Moore announced Thursday that any events normally held inside the State Fair Arena have been canceled because a new 140,000 square feet arena will be built, and...
by Ashley Byrd | May 23, 2023 | Education, News, Show Me Today, Sports Features
The Missouri Valley College rodeo teams are headed to the national rodeo championships in Casper, Wyoming starting June 11. This is after men’s team captured a seventh-straight Ozark Region title, and the women’s team was reserve champion, which is the #2...
by Mike Lear | Sep 13, 2013 | News
A key African-American state legislator says she’s satisfied with the State Fair’s handling of a skit mocking the President at a rodeo. Clown Tuffy Gessling says he  put a President Barack Obama mask on another clown posing as a dummy and the crowd was...
by Jessica Machetta | Aug 11, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask at the State Fair has spurred political action on the part of Missouri Democrats. A State Fair rodeo announcer told the crowd “tonight’s the night we’re going to smoke Obama,” and then asked the crowd if they...
by Bill Pollock | Jun 14, 2012 | Sports Features
The Missouri High School Rodeo Association holds its annual state finals at the Boone County Fairgrounds, north of Columbia, starting today. On Wednesday evening, the MHSR devoted the first night of the multi-day event to a barrel race benefit for the victims of the...