(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa State Fair starts Thursday and, while fair food is a big draw for many, the fair will again allow visitors to bring in drinks and snacks in soft-sided coolers. That policy was in effect for last year’s fair, too, and Iowa State Fair C-E-O Jeremy Parsons says it was the right thing to do.
Parsons says…
He says the state fair vendors who sell food and beverages did not report a decline in sales last year either.
The Common Sense Institute has estimated the more than one-point-one MILLION people who attended the 2025 Iowa State Fair spent 85 MILLION dollars on the fairgrounds. That was a more than one percent increase from the previous year. Nearly five-thousand people work at the fair during its 11-day run.
