Visit the Master Gardener Volunteers at the Clermont County Fair

When you come to the Clermont County fair (July 21st-27th), make sure to stop by The Master Gardener Volunteer booth in the Floral Hall to see what we are doing now.

From gardens to classes to demonstrations, the Master Gardener Volunteers are busy in your community.

Have a gardening question?

Want to become a Master Gardener Volunteer?

Come see us for more information!

Final Year 4-H and FFA Exhibitors

Final year showmen will be honored during the end of the Showman of Showman competition on Friday July 26th in the Holman Arena.

This is available to all 4H and FFA exhibitors who are showing for the last time in 2024.

Entries are due by midnight Tuesday July 23rd to allow ample time for certificates and shirts to be made. 

CLICK HERE to sign up today!!!

Certificates are being provided by The Owensville Winners. For any questions please email owensvillewinners@gmail.com or text Alex Cunningham 513-403-2217
Owensville Winners 4H club plans to sponsor a free t-shirt for the first 20 exhibitors to sign up. If you would like to purchase a shirt but are not one of the first 20 they can be purchased for $10. Payment through venmo @owensvillewinners4H

Stock The Trailer

Farm Credit Mid-America and Rural 1st are excited to present the Fight the Hunger; Stock the Trailer contest with the Clermont County Fair. During the week of the fair.

Junior fair members will be collecting non-perishable items for local food banks. They will be competing against other local county fairs. The fair that donates the most non-perishable items will win $5,000. Reach out to junior fair member on ways to get involved.

2024 Junior Fair Forms – Due July 17, 2024

It is that time! The Clermont County Fair is almost here, and preparations are in full swing at the fairgrounds, with the Ag Society (Senior and Junior) and at OSU Extension.

Drug Use Notification Forms (DUNF), Hog Hair Length, Exhibition Livestock Producer Affidavit, Sales Committee Rules, and Junior Fair Standards of Behavior are available to be completed.

All forms must be completed by NOON on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

DUNF (Drug Use Notification Form)

Exhibitors in the following categories must complete ONE PER ANIMAL, except for pens of chickens, 1 form for the pen.

  • Lactating Dairy Cow
  • Lactating Dairy Goat
  • Market Beef (steer/heifer)
  • Market Chicken – Broiler (tag# given to you at chicken pick up)
  • Market Chicken – Meat Pen (tag# given to you at chicken pick up)
  • Market Goat (dairy/meat)
  • Market Hog (barrow/gilt)
  • Market Lamb
  • Market Rabbit – fryer
  • Market Rabbit – Meat pen
  • Feeder Calves
  • Market Turkey (tag# given to you at turkey pick up)

EID tag animals use all 15 digits.

 

Scrapie tag animals use the entire series of flock IDs and individual animal ID numbers.

 

 

Tattoo-identified animals use the whole series or both ears.

On the respective pick-up days, you were given a poultry identification number. The Extension Office has a copy of the list if you need the number.

DUNF Link

Hog Hair Length Statement

By reading this rule and typing/signing the exhibitor’s name, parent name, and club organization below, you agree to the following rule.

  • For any hog to be allowed to sell, its hair length must be at least ½-inch long. No exceptions.
  • No clipping of any hog project after 8 a.m. Sunday of the fair.
  • Suppose the grand or reserve champion barrow or gilt is determined to have hair length less than 1/2 inch. In that case, it will not sell, but pursuant to Ohio law, the animal is still terminal, and the exhibitor is required to have the animal delivered to a facility as determined by the Clermont County Agricultural Society.

If any of these requirements are not met, the animal is not eligible to be sold.

A third-party person hired by the Sales Committee will measure the hair length at the Sales Committee’s convenience.

1 form per exhibitor + 1 signature = 2 items completed in one

Hog Exhibitors Hair Length Link

Exhibition Livestock Producer Affidavit for United Producers Incorporated

Jr. Fair Exhibitors of market swine, market beef, market dairy steers, beef feeders, dairy feeders, market goats, and market lambs must complete the United Producers Inc. “Exhibition Livestock Producer Affidavit” prior to showing and/or selling those animals at the Fair.

UPI Affidavit Link

Junior Fair Standards of Behavior

This form is to be completed by all Clermont County Junior Fair 4-H and FFA participants, consultants, and volunteers.

JF Standards of Behavior Link

Sales Committee Rules

This form is to be completed by all Clermont County Junior Fair 4-H and FFA participants who intend to sell a project through the sale ring.

Sales Committee Rules

All forms are to be completed by NOON on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

Skillathon Sign Up is Open!!!!

The Clermont County Junior Fair Skillathon will be held on Sunday, July 14, in the 4-H Hall.

All 11 Livestock species (including alpaca/llama), Food & Nutrition, Clothing & Textiles, and Dogs

    • Bring your 2024 Project & Record BOOK!!
    • We will have you wait OUTSIDE until your time slot.
    • Enter through the 4-H kitchen to check in for the skillathon.
    • If you are late, NO WORRIES!!
    • We will work you in!!
    • We want this to be a low-stress day!
    • We will make sure everyone gets through all the skillathons they need to complete.
    • Remember, please only sign up for the project areas in which you will be competing at the 2023 fair.
    • Please just sign up once and list ALL the skillathons you need to complete in the comment box when you sign up.
    • You will have more than 10 minutes to complete your skillathon(s) – unlimited time. We have lots of computers, we just only want to manage to get 10 kids started at a time.

Skillathon Sign-Up

Ohio Livestock Exhibition Rule Changes

The Ohio Department of Agriculture updated its Livestock Exhibition Rules this year, and they went into effect on May 23, 2024. Please see the information below for a list of all the rules.

Ohio Livestock Exhibition Rules

Ohio Livestock Tampering Exhibition Rules

Ohio Livestock Show Reform Law

Drug Use Notification Form must be completed for the following animals per rule 901-19-06 and must be drug-free for exhibition – open or junior show.

  1. Market Beef
  2. Market Hog
  3. Market Lamb
  4. Veal Calf
  5. Market dairy cattle
  6. Market goat
  7. Market poultry
  8. Lactating dairy animals
  9. Market rabbit – NEW this year
  10. Feeder Cattle – NEW this year

2024 Clermont County Sale Committee Rules

Below are the 2024 Junior Fair Sale Committee Rules, please make sure that your 4-H and/or FFA Members read over these rules.

All questions regarding buyer payments, check release, etc. should go to the Clermont County Sale Committee, P.O. Box 22 Felicity, OH 45120 or email clermontcosalescomm@gmail.com 

 

2024 Sales Committee Rules

Southern Ohio Hay List

Our goal in making this list is to provide Southern Ohio clientele with a list of producers who make and sell hay.” Who sells hay?” is a question frequently asked, especially during the winter season. If you are a hay producer and would like to be on the list, please use the QR code or this link to register your information. Of course, we are open to all areas of the state and region, but we are focusing our resources.