{"id":90579,"date":"2026-01-19T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90579\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:46:11","slug":"pennsylvania-farm-show-butter-sculpture-to-be-recycled-into-renewable-energy-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90579\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture to be recycled into renewable energy \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials are putting the Pennsylvania Farm Show\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-farm-show-butter-sculpture-honors-nations-250th-anniversary\/J7VYJNUTDBDXFBTFNELX23RB3U\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-farm-show-butter-sculpture-honors-nations-250th-anniversary\/J7VYJNUTDBDXFBTFNELX23RB3U\/\">1,000-pound butter sculpture<\/a> to good use now that the annual event has wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The sculpture celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, highlighting both America\u2019s history and agricultural contributions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 4-H Club of Dauphin County scraped away and dismantled the sculpture, with dairy farmer Brett Reinford transporting the leftover butter to his farm in Mifflintown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-35th-annual\/QMRFZJ3PPJA5PDVFZPAPJNGKIQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-35th-annual\/QMRFZJ3PPJA5PDVFZPAPJNGKIQ\/\">&gt;&gt;&gt; PHOTOS: 35th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At Reinford Farms, two methane digesters are utilized to convert not only the butter but also thousands of pounds of food waste from local retailers into renewable energy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Reinfords reportedly divert about 60,000 tons of food waste from landfills each year, helping to minimize greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect example of a sustainable and cyclical operation,\u201d Reinford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials are putting the Pennsylvania Farm Show\u2019s 1,000-pound butter sculpture to good use now that the annual event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30223,40057,1875,2908,44699,6754,2328,5609,1835,39989,1515,7680,44703,37,5606,28,17824,30,29,44700,37639,8431,44698,44702,44701,29322],"class_list":{"0":"post-90579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-annual","9":"tag-butter-sculpture","10":"tag-dairy","11":"tag-dauphin-county","12":"tag-digester","13":"tag-emissions","14":"tag-energy","15":"tag-event","16":"tag-farm","17":"tag-farmer","18":"tag-food","19":"tag-gas","20":"tag-greenhouse","21":"tag-harrisburg","22":"tag-mifflintown","23":"tag-pennsylvania","24":"tag-pennsylvania-farm-show","25":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","26":"tag-pennsylvania-news","27":"tag-pounds","28":"tag-recycle","29":"tag-recycling","30":"tag-reinord-farms","31":"tag-renewable","32":"tag-sustainable","33":"tag-waste"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}