New leadership is ahead for the Missouri State Fair. Missouri Department of Agriculture Director Chris Chinn and Missouri State Fair Commission Chairman Kevin Roberts have announced that Jason Moore has been named director. Moore has been a member of the fair staff...
The Missouri State Fair is right around the corner. Missourinet’s Alisa Nelson and Brownfield’s Cyndi Young talk to Missouri Department of Agriculture Director Chris Chinn and Missouri State Fair Director Mark Wolfe about what’s new at this year’s...
The next leader of the Missouri State Fair will have some large cowboy boots to fill. After 14 years on the job, Director Mark Wolfe is retiring. “I wrote my letter to him and tore it up 19 times over the last six months and tossed it around in my mind is this the...
State fair officials in west-central Missouri’s Sedalia expect to have a full carnival next month. While worker shortages have forced the cancelation of carnival rides at some county fairs and at Jefferson City’s Salute to America earlier this month,...
There have been about $8 million in capital improvements at the sprawling state fairgrounds in west-central Missouri’s Sedalia in the past year. State Fair marketing director Kari Mergen says that includes campground improvements, brick horse barn upgrades and...
