Radio Iowa: The Iowa State Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation has announced plans to spend millions of dollars to renovate the livestock barns on the fairgrounds. The renovations are expected to cost around $25 million. The Blue Ribbon Foundation fundraising effort has already received $12 million from the state’s “Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund,” along with $5 million from the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation, and Jeff and Deb Hansen of Iowa Select Farms have committed $2 million for the Swine Barn portion of the renovation.