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farm animals live entertainment and food on a stick Missourians love the State Fair held each summer in Sedalia Missouri's history is rooted in agriculture and the Missouri State Fair has been celebrating that connection for more than a hundred years we caught up with State Fair Director mark Wolfe and Department of Agriculture director Richard Fordyce to learn about the state fairs long and colorful history well you know at legislation for creating the State Fair occurred back in 1899 at one point there there were four or five cities that were on board with this we had legislators at that time that took a train and visited here in civilian cities of marshal Chillicothe Mexico and I think there was a couple of others Centralia and made this tour by train and after a long tour those members of the legislators legislation went back to Jeff City and in a 15-hour I think they voted ten different times well into the night with 15 hours of discussion and when it was all then it came out in t