Steele County Free Fair

The opening day of the Steele County Free Fair is Tuesday, August 15. However a number of 4-H projects are judged well advance. In fact, judging begins this Thursday, August 3, with the clothing categories. They include clothes made by the 4-Her and clothing purchased by the 4-Her...

Steele County Fair time is quickly approaching. The biggest county fair in the state runs August 15-20. The daily schedule of events was released over the weekend.

The first day of the Steele County Free Fair will feature two Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. On Tuesday, August 15, at 12:30PM the show arena will be the setting for the Equine Hall of Fame. This years inductees are Daniel C. Gainey and Jody (Teeters) Eckhardt...

The list of 1960s cars that will be on display in the Wells Fargo Auto Museum during the Steele County Free Fair has been released. All but one of the 14 cars is from the Owatonna area. This year's cars include: 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XLT from Wayne and Vivian Tischer of Mankato 1965 Chevy hard top from Bill and Sally Regan 1965 Pontiac GTO from Howard Kittleson 1965 Mustang convertible from Ken a

Monte Mitchell was Todd Hale's guest on Fair Talk this week. Monte and his wife, Bunny, have been associated with the wine judging department at the Steele County Fair for a number of years. Wine judging has quickly grown into a very popular part of the fair...

Todd Hale's guest on Fair Talk, which airs Thursday mornings at 9:40AM on AM 1390, included Steve Stansbury and Les Abraham of the Steele County Free Fair Auto Museum. John Simon is also working on this year's display. This year's featured vehicles are cars of the '60s...

David Smith Jr., better known as the Human Cannonball, will be returning to the 2017 Steele County Free Fair. Dave has been launched over the fairgrounds for many years and is still one of the highlights of the fair. He's scheduled to be launched over the Gold Star Midway each day of the fair at 5:30PM and 8:30PM and on Sunday at 2:30PM and 6:30PM...

Winners in the Steele County Free fair Amateur Talent Contest were as follows:

Saturday evening I was at the Steele County Fair for the KDHL Steele County Fair Southern Minnesota Ag Ambassador of the year presentation. After the program a shower moved through while the sun was shining. I noticed this beautiful double rainbow in the eastern sky...

The KRFO watermelon seed spitting contest at the Steele County Fair was decided by 1 inch. The ladies nail driving championship was won by :00.6 seconds. First-time participants Josh Storm of Owatonna and Sheri Sexton of Millville walked away with the titles.