By Travis Cleven
Jan 19, 2021 2:02 AM
The 2020 fair season wasn’t the greatest. Most fairs started getting canceled at the beginning of June, while some were even calling things off in April or May. This left a lot of kids with animals and nowhere to show them.
“We had about six fairs that were able to host some type of fair that was open to the public,” Jayme Buttke with the Wisconsin Association of Fairs explained, “We had another seven or eight fairs that held a modified fair. So it was an exhibitor only type of experience.” Besides that handful of fairs, the rest of them decided to keep things closed until this year. According to the Wisconsin Association of Fairs, in 2019 we had 1.6 million people visit our county fairs and in 2020 we only had about 68,000 visitors.