Gov. Sam Brownback says the Kansas State Fair would attract more visitors and more revenue if it started earlier each September to include the Labor Day weekend.

It’s an idea he’s promoted since he sat on the fair board while serving as Kansas agriculture secretary and he repeated it this week in an interview with The Hutchinson News.

The 10-day fair now starts every year on the second Friday of September. Brownback says moving it to include the three-day Labor Day weekend would make it what he calls “a bigger state celebration.”

Fair officials are responding cautiously. They point out that many vendors and the carnival work the Kansas fair into schedules that may include Labor Day commitments elsewhere. But the officials also say they’re open to studying the idea.