Some contestants are first-timers, while others have won before. But they all try their best to bring home bacon.

You know the butter sculptures, your mouth waters for all manner of fried food on a stick, and who can pass up a look at the ...

B. Parker Newsom, Jr. of Columbus won first place in the Hog Calling Contest at the Indiana State Fair. Newsom raised ...

See the winner of the 2025 Iowa State Fair Husband Calling Contest use a special song to lure her husband to dinner.

Iowans took to the stage to show off their hog calls during a 2025 Iowa State Fair contest. Hear the winning entries.

Attendees laugh as they watch the Hog Calling Contest during Senior Citizens Day at the Anderson County Fair in Clinton on July 16, 2025.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- One quarter of adult Iowans have never heard the hog-calling contest, strolled through the livestock barns, eaten deep-fried Twinkies, or sampled any of the other ...

Hear kids scream for mom during Iowa State Fair's mom calling contest Hear the winning calls from Iowa State Fair's 2025 hog calling contest See Iowans chow down during the 2025 State Fair's pie ...

The centennial was celebrated with a play, a parade, races, a horse show, a whiskers contest, a women's costume contest, a hog calling contest, square dancing, a watermelon eating contest and ...