Indiana State Fair

A teenager is recovering after being shot near Monument Circle.

And the Indiana State Fair kicks off an annual Christmas celebration.

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Investigators believe the teen ran from the apartment after getting shot where he asked an off duty EMT for help.

Police are now investigating.

The Indiana State Fair kicking off its Christmas Nights of Lights this Friday, November 6th.

The annual drive-thru light show invites families and friends to celebrate the season with more than one million synchronized lights to holiday music.

And Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin is here with his Indiana farm forecast.

On today's show, diesel fuel relief is on the way, but when? A big honor for the former leader of the Indiana State Fair.

Ag land owned by foreign entities increased in the latest report and harvest slash fieldwork updates from around the state.

Let's begin with what's always the top news story this time of year.

I'm Greg Allen.

Thank you, Greg.

The longtime leader of the Indiana State Fair, a champion for young people, and now a member of the National 4-H Hall of Fame.

CJ Miller has

The idea was that we were going to sell spirits and we were going to build a bar restaurant inside of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, which hosts somewhere around two million people through their gates per year.

About half of that is the Indiana State Fair.

The other half, like there's events every weekend and you name it.

There's cheerleading competitions.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

If you want to find the largest thing in the Midwest, it's probably at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

But one of the things that we did first was we thought, well, this canned cocktail thing is coming up.

Good morning on the 29th of October, 2026.

I'm Andy Eubank, joined today by Eric Pfeiffer and C.J. Miller with Hat News, including Cindy Hoy, longtime leader of the Indiana State Fair and now a member of the National 4-H Hall of Fame and why National FFA was an important place to be for Farm Credit Mid-America.

This half podcast brought to you by First Farmers Bank and Trust, proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years.

They're online at ffbt.com. Chief meteorologist Ryan Martin is here, too.

I'm Eric Pfeiffer.

This is Hoosier Act Today.

The longtime leader of the Indiana State Fair, a champion for young people, and now a member of the National 4-H Hall of Fame.

C.J. Miller has the story.

and I'll tell you, as far as goats go, and we dabble in the goats a little bit, we've had an awesome time with it on goats.

The doe that won the Indiana State Fair this year, she was on hydrate.

They were in, the goats got moved at Indiana this year down to a lower barn that was really hot with limited airflow.

And they had won their division.

And I will tell you, she looked her freshest and her best the second week of August.

And I might be biased on that a little bit.

But I'll tell you, six-week time frame from July 4th all the way until we showed her at the Indiana State Fair, she averaged less than three-quarters of a pound a day on that.

And it kept her shape and it kept her bloom and kind of held her in check.

And I can actually show this.

Stage used Eric Singer drum head from the show that I saw August 9th, 2010 at the Indiana State Fair.

Literally the hottest show on earth.

It was like 110 degrees that night.

So I'm going to take you guys back to 1963.

Halloween night, 1963, Indianapolis, Indiana, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum.

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you say the Indiana Fair?

Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, also known formerly as the Pepsi Coliseum.

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Costumes, candies, parties, kids running through the neighborhoods and people telling ghost stories.