The Animal Science Design Team Livestock Evaluation webinar series are continuing, and our third session is on Swine! These series are being recorded so that if someone is not able to attend, they can review it later.  Each month we will be focusing on a new topic/species in helping youth across the state prepare for various contests available to them.

The OSU Virtual Junior Swine Day is scheduled for February 20, 2021. The complete agenda and registration information can be found at this link: www.go.osu.edu/jsd2021

This is a great opportunity for all youth participating in a hog project.  Please consider signing up.

ALL HOG EXHIBITORS: PLEASE READ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PAYLEAN

The Greene County Agricultural Society (GCAS) voted at the January 2020 board meeting to ban the use of paylean (Ractopmaine) in all market hog projects at the 2020 Greene County Fair from birth to time of slaughter. This decision was based on two major issues:

1. Packers will be testing for and rejecting any hogs that have been fed paylean at any time during their life.
2. Union Stockyard will not accept any market hogs that have been fed paylean at any time during their life.

Union Stockyard and the GCAS will be requiring all market hog exhibitors, and their parent/guardian, to sign an affidavit stating that the hog(s) exhibited/sold have never been exposed to paylean.  Affidavits will be turned in at weigh in with DUNF forms.  Greene County Fairboard reserves the right to test hogs, feed, or equipment for traces of ractopamine resides.

More information will be made available as we receive it from the State.