{"id":195321,"date":"2025-09-02T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:23:12","slug":"800-pound-butter-sculpture-from-state-fair-to-be-made-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195321\/","title":{"rendered":"800-pound butter sculpture from State Fair to be made into energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 After nearly two weeks as a popular highlight at the Great New York State Fair, the 800-pound butter sculpture was deconstructed on Tuesday by Livingston County&#8217;s Noblehurst Farms.<\/p>\n<p>Based south of Rochester, the farm helps turn food waste into renewable energy and has spent nearly a decade recycling the butter sculpture from the fair, recycling more than 8,000 pounds of butter in total.<\/p>\n<p>Taking about 11 days to complete, this year&#8217;s sculpture was called \u201cDairy for Good: Nourish, Grow, thrive&#8221; to celebrate the nourishment of dairy. It also honored the 125th anniversary of the \u201cWonderful Wizard of Oz\u201d to honor author Lyman Frank Baum, who was originally from Chittenango, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/take-a-look-the-2025-great-nys-fair-butter-sculpture-is-amaerican-dairy-association-800-pounds-hardworking-culture-food-rides-tickets-farmers-milk-north-east-concerts-chittenango\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/take-a-look-the-2025-great-nys-fair-butter-sculpture-is-amaerican-dairy-association-800-pounds-hardworking-culture-food-rides-tickets-farmers-milk-north-east-concerts-chittenango\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look! The 2025 Great NYS Fair butter sculpture is&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes into [an] anaerobic digester, and it sits in there for about 28 days,\u201d said Noblehurst Farms&#8217; co-owner Jack Klapper. \u201cOver that period of time it releases methane and the methane gets converted into electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The butter sculpture&#8217;s deconstruction took 80 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEDDES, N.Y. \u2014 After nearly two weeks as a popular highlight at the Great New York State Fair,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[108749,648,1032,83068,1033,24071,171,30951,36350,935,108748,866,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-anaerobic-digester","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-butter-sculpture","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-electricity","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-food-waste","16":"tag-great-new-york-state-fair","17":"tag-methane","18":"tag-noblehurst-farms","19":"tag-renewable-energy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115137282363116416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}