Half-ton butter sculpture unveiled at Pennsylvania Farm Show
January 5, 2017 at 6:07 p.m.
| Updated January 5, 2017 at 6:20 p.m.
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Posing after the unveiling of the butter sculpture are, from left, dairy farmer Jim Harbach, of Clinton County, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, Vernon Horst, of the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, state Dairy Princess Halee Wasson, of Centre County, and butter sculptors, Marie Pelton and Jim Victor, of Conshohocken. The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Signaling the 2017 Pennsylvania Farm Show is about to open, the event's annual butter sculpture has been revealed.
The sculpture unveiled Thursday is called "A Culture of Stewardship." It pays tribute to dairy farmers, who the artists say are stewards of the land, air, water and community.
About a half-ton of butter was used to create the piece, which shows a landscape of farms and undulating hillsides giving way to forest-covered peaks.
Husband and wife suburban Philadelphia sculptor team Jim Victor and Marie Pelton say they think the piece uniquely depicts the characteristics of Pennsylvania.
The farm show gets underway Saturday for the general public at the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex in Harrisburg. It wraps up Jan. 14.
