{"id":128239,"date":"2025-09-02T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128239\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:31:06","slug":"800-pound-butter-sculpture-from-state-fair-to-be-made-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128239\/","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>Related | <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=\"nofollow 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":2,"featured_media":128240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[81563,228,226,227,54147,229,16358,88,59618,81561,60307,81562,1869],"class_list":["post-128239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-anaerobic-digester","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-butter-sculpture","tag-design","tag-electricity","tag-entertainment","tag-food-waste","tag-great-new-york-state-fair","tag-methane","tag-noblehurst-farms","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}