If you have an interest in joining Steer Pool for the 2026 Hartford Fair and you have not already registered, please click the link below to complete your registration.
Registration can be completed online at https://go.osu.edu/2026SteerPool
Registration and deposit must be submitted by noon on October 8.
Come be a part of the team! The application for the 2025 Hartford Fair Junior Fair Board is now available HERE. Completed applications must be turned in by November 15, 2025. Applicants must be age 14 as of 01/01/2026 to apply for the junior fair board. Interviews will take place on Saturday, December 6th at the Licking County Extension Office. Once you have submitted your application, please call our office at 740-670-5315 to schedule your interview.
If you have an interest in joining Steer Pool for the 2026 Hartford Fair and you have not already registered, please click the link below to complete your registration.
Registration can be completed online at https://go.osu.edu/2026SteerPool
Registration and deposit must be submitted by noon on October 8.
The 2026 Hartford Fair Steer Pool organizational meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 24 @ 6:30 p.m. at the Licking Valley High School Ag Building. If you have an interest in joining Steer Pool for the 2026 Hartford Fair please click the link below to complete your registration and then join this session where important information about the program will be discussed.
Registration can be completed online at https://go.osu.edu/2026SteerPool
Registration and deposit must be submitted by noon on October 8.
Come be a part of the team! The application for the 2025 Hartford Fair Junior Fair Board is now available HERE. Completed applications must be turned in by November 15, 2025. Applicants must be age 14 as of 01/01/2026 to apply for the junior fair board. Interviews will take place on Saturday, December 6th at the Licking County Extension Office. Once you have submitted your application, please call our office at 740-670-5315 to schedule your interview.
Results from the 2025 Hartford Fair are being posted to the Exhibitor page of the Hartford Fair website. While results for several shows/events are already posted, we will be working over the next few weeks to get the rest of the results posted there, so if you don’t see a show posted just yet, check back in a few weeks!
Junior fair exhibitors! Please remember that there are livestock skillathon contests throughout the week at the fair. All junior fair exhibitors are encouraged to participate. You do not need to show a specific species to participate in that species skillathon; they are open to all! The skillathon competitions are a great way to show your knowledge! See the full schedule of skillathon competitions below or click HERE.
The Livestock Drug Use Notification Form (DUNF) and Livestock Exhibition Producer Form are REQUIRED for many of the species showing at the Hartford Fair. Please review the list HERE or below to ensure that you complete the appropriate forms for the species that you will be bringing to the fair. Exhibitors are NOT eligible to weigh-in or show their animal(s) if they have not submitted the DUNF and Producer Form (when applicable). Please be sure to complete all forms by 11:59pm on Friday, August 1st.
Drug Use Notification Form (DUNF): go.osu.edu/2025HartfordDUNF
Exhibition Livestock Producer Form: go.osu.edu/ProducerForm2025
SPECIAL NOTE: In the past, market hog exhibitors could not complete their DUNF until their hog was tagged in at the fairgrounds. With hogs now being tagged in May, Market Hog exhibitors will follow the same August 1st deadline as the other species.
We’d like to challenge our 4-H Clubs and FFA Chapters that will be participating in the Hartford Fair to help our Junior Fair Board in collecting non-perishable food items, along with money, to support the Food Pantry Network of Licking County! Every single dollar, or food item, will directly benefit people inside of our fair district! We are challenging each club/chapter to collect $100 or 50 lbs of food!
Bonus: If the Hartford Junior Fair Board collects more than the other fairs in our region, our fair will receive $5,000! HELP US WIN! We’ve placed third the past two years – but with your help, we can do better!
Please follow the 2025 Hartford Fair Traffic Pattern for Livestock Move-In on Saturday, August 2, 2025. Following these patterns is the most efficient way to get everyone onto the fairgrounds and livestock unloaded throughout the morning:
Please note the pattern that will be in place for those who will be hauling in hogs for the Hog Wild Open Swine Show on Friday, August 8, 2025:
All trailers should enter through gate A4, then turn left and follow the road around towards gate A3 and then turn right to follow to road north that runs just east of the swine complex. After unloading, please then turn right to follow the road that runs between the Horse Complex and Preferred Parking, then turn right to head back out gate A4.
