(image: Princess Kay Facebook)
A new Princess Kay of the Milky Way will be crowned tonight (Wednesday) prior to Thursday’s opening of the 2025 Minnesota State Fair.
Princess Kay is the title awarded to the winner of the statewide Minnesota Dairy Princess Program organized by Midwest Dairy Association.
The current Princess Kay, Rachel Visser of Hutchinson, will give up her crown tonight (Wednesday) at the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way Coronation at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
(2024 Princess Kay – Rachel Visser / Hutchinson) (image: Facebook)
Wright County has a Princess Kay finalist in Malorie Thorson of Waverly. Malorie is a graduate of Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School, and a student at South Dakota State University, where she is majoring in Dairy Production, with minors in Leadership and Agribusiness.
She and the 9 other candidates will be on stage at the Minnesota State Fair Bandshell tonight (Wednesday) for the coronation at 8 PM.
(Malorie Thorson with Tim Matthews during June Dairy Month visit at KRWC Radio)
The winner will make numerous media and public appearances during the 12 days of the State Fair, and throughout the coming year on behalf of Minnesota Dairy Farmers and the products they produce.
The new Princess Kay and all the other finalists will have the honor during the fair of having their likeness carved into a 90-pound block of butter in the walk-in, glass-walled cooler.
Though our area has had runners-up in the program, and neighboring counties have had past Princess Kays, Kyla Mauk of Howard Lake remains the only Princess Kay of the Milky Way from Wright County. Kyla was crowned 10 years ago in 2015.
