Let’s Take A Visit To This Year’s Missouri State Fair!

State fairs are underway across the country, keeping traditions alive and celebrating the agricultural industry.

Janet Adkison is in Sedalia, Missouri, with the Missouri Farm Bureau, where friends are more like family at this year’s state fair.

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