From cobs to kernels and sweet to spicy, you’ll likely find a corn stand at most summer festivals across Wisconsin.

But if you’re looking for a more full-fledged celebration of one of Wisconsin’s top crops, several corn festivals are coming up across the state in the next few weeks.

Jerry Smith Farm’s Sweet Corn Fest

Kick off your tour of Wisconsin corn festivals this weekend at Jerry Smith Farm’s Sweet Corn Fest. The family-owned farm in Kenosha will host its annual festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 10 and 11.

Along with plenty of home-grown sweet corn, the festival will feature live music, food, drink and local vendors. Find a full line-up of vendors and performances here.

Admission is free, and Jerry Smith Farm is at 7150 18th St., Kenosha, WI 53144.

Cobb Corn Roast

For a weeklong celebration topped off with free ears of sweet corn, visit the Cobb Corn Roast Celebration from Aug. 6-11. The 66th annual festival will feature a ball park concessions, a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, water fights, inflatable rides and multiple nights of live music — and corn, of course.

If you’ve got only one day to spare, make sure to check out the last day of the festival on Sunday, Aug. 11. Free face painting for kids will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., along with a chicken BBQ at 11 a.m., all followed by a 2 p.m. parade and live music through the afternoon. The festival will also give away free sweet corn by the ear.

Check out the festival website for a full schedule. The celebration will take place all week long at Scheper Park, 109 Gard Way, Cobb, WI 53526.

Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival

Wisconsin’s largest corn festival is just over a week away. The Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival runs from Aug. 14-18 with more than 80 tons of Wisconsin-grown sweet corn, according to its website.

Though the festival runs for five days, steamed corn will only be served on Saturday, Aug. 17 and Sunday, Aug. 18. On those days, you can purchase cooked sweet corn from 12 to 7 p.m. (until supplies last) or uncooked corn for $10 per grocery bag.

But don’t count out the other festival days: non-corn festivities include a parade, carnival night, food vendors, a beer shelter and live music. Check out the full schedule here. All festivities will be at Angell Park, at 200 Park St., Sun Prairie, WI 53590 with paid parking onsite.

Corn and Tater Festival

For corn with a side of potatoes, check out the Corn and Tater Festival in Grand Marsh. The annual event — which boasts the status of the largest, one-day festival in Adams County — will run from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 17.

The food line-up includes brats, hot dogs, and a roast beef sandwich with unlimited corn and potato on the side. You can also enjoy live music from the afternoon to the evening, a basket raffle, pan poker and a bouncy house and obstacle course. Check out the full schedule here.

Admission is free. The festival is at Grand Marsh Lions Park, at 620 County Road East, Grand Marsh, WI 53936.

Loyal Corn

For perhaps the best all-you-can-eat corn deal in the state, check out Loyal Corn Fest in from Aug. 22-25 in Loyal. For $3, the festival offers all-you-can-eat sweet corn and an official Corn Fest button on Saturday, Aug. 24 and Sunday, Aug. 25. Corn will be served starting at 12 p.m. until supplies last.

The festival is a citywide affair, with garage sales throughout the weekend, a coronation and parade of local children as “Corn Fest Royalty” and free live music. Find the full schedule here.

Some events are free and others require an admission fee. Corn Fest is at various locations throughout the city, but the main festival will be at American Legion, at 302 N. Union St., Loyal, WI 54446.

Darien CornFest

For more helpings of free corn, check out Darien CornFest from Sept. 6-8 in Darien. You can grab free sweet corn from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 8.

The three-day festival will also be bookended by fireworks at 9 p.m. Friday and a downtown parade at 12 p.m. Sunday. Carnival rides will be up throughout the festival, with a $25 wristband available to access rides on all three days. Check out the full schedule here.

The festival is at Darien West Park, at 335 W. Madison St., Darien, WI 53114.

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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ rise after President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race shifts the focus in the Ohio Senate race to a comparison between her record and the record of one of the most vulnerable incumbents in a key swing state. 

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who appeared to distance himself from Harris when recently pressed on whether he would campaign with her, has been criticized by his GOP opponent Bernie Moreno for his record of voting with the Biden-Harris administration nearly 100% of the time over the last 3.5 years, which shows the two are in “lockstep,” according to the Moreno campaign.

“Sherrod Brown and Kamala Harris conspired to pass the most liberal agenda in American history. Brown is in complete lockstep with Harris in her radical views and will help usher in the Green New Deal, Medicare for illegals, and tax hikes on the middle class,” Reagan McCarthy, the Moreno campaign’s communications director, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

Brown, who endorsed Harris for president the day after Biden dropped out, served with Harris in the Senate from 2017 to 2021, where the two worked together and complemented each other often as they seemingly developed a close professional relationship.

VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR HIT WITH IMMIGRATION AD TYING HIS POLICIES TO HIS ‘NEW FRIEND’ KAMALA HARRIS

Brown voted with Harris 84% of the time on average between the two sessions of Congress they served together as Harris was rated the most “liberal” member of the Senate by GovTrack before that rating was scrubbed from its website following Harris’ entry into the 2024 race.

While working together over those four years, Brown and Harris co-sponsored almost 500 bills and resolutions.

Some of those bills included the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, which limited legal protections for police officers; Senate Bill 2233, which would have nullified an executive order that directs federal agencies to share citizenship information with the Department of Commerce; and the No Ban Act, which would have imposed restrictions on the president’s authority to stop certain immigrants from entering the United States; legislation to set up a committee exploring reparation payments for black Americans, and legislation to ban oil operations on more than 1.5 million acres of federal land.

The two senators also worked together cosponsoring the SECURE Act which would have granted permanent residency to certain illegal immigrants.

‘HUGE PROBLEM’: VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR RIPPED AFTER INTERVIEW RESURFACES TOUTING SIMILARITY WITH BIDEN

Vice President Kamala Harris (Reuters/Kevin Mohatt/Pool)

“San Francisco socialist Kamala Harris was the most liberal member of the Senate and Sherrod Brown was right by her side on everything from mass amnesty to reparations to eliminating private health insurance,” National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Philip Letsou told Fox News Digital.

“Brown was happy to campaign with Harris in 2018 and even wanted to be her vice president, so it is surprising that he is now refusing to commit to campaigning with her at the top of the ticket.” 

Harris has called Brown her “friend” on multiple occasions and adopted his often used phrase “dignity of work” as a motto when she ran for president in 2019, which Brown thanked her for using on social media.

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Sen. Sherrod Brown in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“And if I didn’t already love Kamala Harris, I did after that discussion, just that what we were talking about dignity of work and Dr. King always said all labor has dignity, no job is menial if it pays an adequate wage and that’s so much of what she’s fought for in her career and what has so mattered to her and so mattered to the people whom she serves,” Brown said about VP Harris after a 2021 roundtable. “So, Sen. Harris, excuse me, Vice President Harris, good to see you.”

The two have been friendly with each other on the campaign trail over the years, including during the 2018 election cycle when Brown took $10,000 from Harris’ Fearless for the People leadership PAC.

“Couldn’t be more grateful to have @KamalaHarris’ support this fall, as we fight to make this a country where everyone – no matter your background – has a fair shot to get ahead,” Brown posted online.

Harris was in attendance for an October canvass kickoff and rally for Brown during his 2018 campaign, which Brown thanked her for on social media.

“My friend and colleague @SherrodBrown is one of the most fearless fighters I know,” Harris posted in 2019. “I know he’ll continue to stand up for the workers of Ohio and the country in the Senate.”

Despite the deep ties between the records of Harris and Brown, some experts believe that her entrance into the race provides a better path for Brown to win re-election in Ohio, a state that Trump comfortably won by eight points in 2020.

Former President Trump greets Ohio Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Bernie Moreno during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16, 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“Having Harris take over is a huge benefit to the Sherrod Brown campaign,” University of Akron political science professor Dave Cohen told Spectrum News 1. 

“He really needs to drive his base out to the polls. And, frankly, Democrats were not enthusiastic about, Biden as the nominee. Kamala Harris, you know, there’s this newfound enthusiasm,” Cohen said. “I firmly believe that Sherrod Brown is going to campaign together with Kamala Harris.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Brown campaign spokesperson Eliza Green did not say whether Brown would campaign for Harris but said, “Sherrod works for Ohio, which is why he’s stood up to his own party to block bad trade deals and worked with Republicans to make sure Border Patrol agents and law enforcement officers have the resources they need.”

“Bernie Moreno is trying to distract Ohioans from his record, shredding evidence he was legally required to keep, to get out of paying his employees and opposing the strongest border security bill in decades.”

The campaign also pointed to instances of Brown bucking the policies of the Biden administration, including opposing the Green New Deal, “Medicare-for-all,” working to fix energy regulations, supporting tariffs on China, and supporting “the most conservative border bill in decades.”

A globetrotting Jack White made a hometown pit stop Monday night — and refueled with a blast of Detroit rock energy.

Inside a packed Saint Andrew’s Hall, playing for 1,000 in a show that was announced just last week, White was joined by drummer Patrick Keeler (the Raconteurs), keyboardist Bobby Emmett (the Sights) and longtime friend-bassist Dominic Davis for a raw and special homecoming visit.

Aside from the occasional private gigs he has staged at his Third Man Records store in the Cass Corridor, it was the most intimate Detroit show the ex-White Stripe has performed in years. For the lucky fans on hand — who had quickly snatched up what abruptly became one of the summer’s hottest concert tickets — it was a chance to catch the usual guitar heroics and rock abandon up close and in the face.

“Man, I’ve seen so many shows in this room, but I’ve never really played here,” White said early on.

It was all in the service of “No Name,” White’s sixth and latest solo album, which provided about a third of Monday’s set list alongside music from the White Stripes, Raconteurs and past solo efforts. The album’s summer mini-tour had White and the band in South Korea over the weekend and off to Scandinavia this week. Detroit sat somewhere in the middle of that 10,600-mile trip.

The no-frills Saint Andrew’s visit was in keeping with the organic rollout of the new record, which was surreptitiously released in July when unidentified vinyl copies were slipped into the bags of customers at his Third Man shops in Detroit, Nashville and London. “No Name” got its official digital and physical release two weeks later.

Jack White salutes his 93-year-old mom from onstage in Detroit

Detroit-born rocker Jack White greeted his mother, Teresa Gillis, during his Monday night concert in downtown Detroit.

Friends and family in the Saint Andrew’s balcony Monday included White’s 93-year-old mom, Teresa Gillis, who got an affectionate reception from the crowd when he pointed her out from the stage.  

And White drew knowing laughs when he introduced the Stripes chestnut “Hotel Yorba” by referring to his 2022 concert at the Masonic Temple Theatre, which included an onstage proposal and wedding with Olivia Jean.

“I’ve gotta be careful when I play this song because last time in Detroit I ended up getting married it after it,” he said.

The new “Old Scratch Blues” kicked things off with plenty of room for White’s improv guitar jams, followed by the warm groove of “That’s How I’m Feeling,” with an audience call-and-response that showed fans were well-acquainted with the latest songs.

“That’s my town right there!” White said.

“Archbishop Harold Holmes” and “What’s the Rumpus?” made for a playful pairing of new material late in the regular set, while “It’s Rough on Rats (If You’re Asking)” demonstrated that “No Name” just might be White’s most cohesive, distinct collection of riffs since he embarked on a solo career.

There was a loose, unfettered vibe to the evening, and White appeared to be calling audibles to his bandmates throughout.

“Love Interruption” launched a darker section that had a bare-knuckle cover of the Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog” sandwiched by the White Stripes’ old Son House tribute “Cannon” for a one-two shot of Michigan menace. (Another local nod would come later, when White unearthed “Keep on Trash” by the late, great Detroit band the Go, with whom he’d done a brief tenure in the late ’90s.)

A reliably hot and gnarled “Ball and Biscuit” closed the regular set, before an encore that featured a pair of Raconteurs numbers (“Steady, as She Goes” and a stellar “Broken Boy Soldier”) and a slide-guitar frenzy to cap the night: The new “Underground” segued smartly into “Seven Nation Army” to send off the evening with a moment of familiar, chant-along Detroit communion.

Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.