(Pics) St. Joseph Dairy Princess Gets Likeness Carved At State Fair

The second of two Stearns County Dairy Princesses had their likeness carved into a block of butter this week at the Great Minnesota Get-Together. Selena Corona of St. Joseph was honored to sit in the cooler for the carving on Wednesday.

Princess Kay finalist Selena Corona of Stearns County is the definition of excitement today as she steps into the butter booth for her butter sculpture. She can’t wait to see you at the Dairy Building on the corner of Judson and Underwood.

Selena plans to put her butter sculpture to good use once the fair wraps up on Monday, Labor Day. Selena told Princess Kay on social media what her plans are for the sculpture.

“I plan on having my butter sculpture at my wedding reception someday. I want to now use my scraps to bake Christmas cookies with my family, and the leftover scraps, I want to have a sweetcorn and baked potato feed in my community.”

Here Selena is alongside her sculpture inside the butter chiller at the Minnesota State Fair.

The Princess Kay contest brings about awareness to the dairy industry and has been an on-going contest at the Minnesota State Fair for decades.

According to Midwest Dairy, which helps to run the contest:

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.

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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.  

Congrats to Selena on her accomplishments and for representing Stearns County at the fair!