‘What a fun experience!’ Stearns Co Dairy Princess Sculpted In Butter

One of the Stearns County Dairy princesses got the opportunity to sit and have their likeness sculpted from butter yesterday at the Minnesota State Fair, and to her, it was a very fun experience. Let's see what Grace Woitalla's sculpture looks like!

“What a fun experience!” says Grace Woitalla, Princess Kay finalist from Stearns County. She plans on keeping her butter sculpture. Her younger sister Abby, also has an incredible passion for Dairy and Grace would love to one day have matching butterheads with Abby.

Grace was a runner-up to the title of Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

Grace's butter sculpture will hang out in the dairy building for the remainder of the fair, for people to come and check out. Along with Grace's likeness, there will be 10 other butterheads, including the newly crowned Princess Kay, Rachel Visser, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota of McLeod County.

According to the Princess Kay website, this is the process that someone takes to become Princess Kay:

Princess Kay of the Milky Way serves as the goodwill ambassador for Minnesota’s dairy farmers, a name selected in a Department of Agriculture contest almost sixty years ago. She is selected through a three-phase process.

First, candidates must be a county dairy princess. County dairy princess contests happen from January to April. In May, all the county dairy princesses come together for a leadership event and have the opportunity to compete to be a finalist. Ten young women are then selected to continue moving forward with the competition.

In August, prior to the Minnesota State Fair, another competition occurs between the ten women, and the winner is announced the Wednesday night prior to the Minnesota State Fair. Princess Kay of the Milky way will then spend the next year representing Minnesota’s dairy farmers to consumers.  

When the fair ends, many of the dairy princesses take the sculptures home and put them in the freezer to use later on, generally for corn feeds.

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