The 2026 Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards Form Packet as well as the 2025 Licking County 4-H Committee Scholarship Packet are now available. Both forms can be found on the Teen Opportunities page of the website. Achievement Awards forms and the 4-H Committee Scholarship are due to the Licking County Extension Office by Friday, October 10, 2025. By completing the Achievement Awards forms, members have the opportunity to be recognized for their comprehensive project work and leadership activities and can be chosen to represent Licking County at the state level competition. Applicants are also eligible to apply for state trips/camps and other opportunities through this process. Members must be at least 14 (as of 01/01/2026) in order to be eligible for this process. Please reach out to Lisa McCutcheon (mccutcheon.46@osu.edu) with questions or for help with the process.
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Teen Achievement Awards Forms and Licking County 4-H Committee Scholarship
The 2026 Ohio 4-H Achievement Awards Form Packet as well as the 2025 Licking County 4-H Committee Scholarship Packet are now available. Both forms can be found on the Teen Opportunities page of the website. Achievement Awards forms and the 4-H Committee Scholarship are due to the Licking County Extension Office by Friday, October 10, 2025. By completing the Achievement Awards forms, members have the opportunity to be recognized for their comprehensive project work and leadership activities and can be chosen to represent Licking County at the state level competition. Applicants are also eligible to apply for state trips/camps and other opportunities through this process. Members must be at least 14 (as of 01/01/2026) in order to be eligible for this process. Please reach out to Lisa McCutcheon (mccutcheon.46@osu.edu) with questions or for help with the process.
All About Goats Webinar
The Fall 2025 series of the All About Goats! webinar will take place starting on September 22nd. Each webinar will take place from 7:00-8:00pm and features a different topic. Register at go.osu.edu/AllAboutGoats25.
September 22 – Goat Health and Care
October 6 – Farm Business and Management
October 20 – Goat Processing
November 3 – Livestock Marketing
November 17 – Hay and Grain Production
December 1 – Coyote Management
December 15 – Open Forum: Ask Me Anything
2025 Hartford Fair Results
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!
REMINDER: Livestock and Equine Skillathons at the Hartford Fair
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.
Drug Use Notification Forms (DUNF) for Livestock Exhibitors
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.
Livestock Move-In Traffic Patterns
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.
Livestock and Equine Skillathons at the Hartford Fair
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.
SPECIAL NOTE: Please make note that the Dairy Feeder Skillathon will take place ahead of the Hartford Fair. Dairy Feeder exhibitors received an email earlier with details.
REMINDER: 2025 Goat Workshops
The Goats R Us 4-H Club will be hosting a goat workshop at the Hartford Fairgrounds in Grubb Arena. The workshop will take place from 6:00-9:00pm on Thursday, June 26th. You can find out more about these workshop HERE.
LAST CHANCE: 2025 Hartford Fair Entry Information
All Hartford Fair entries must be completed through the FairEntry portal again this year. The portal will open on Sunday, May 25, 2025. Please follow the Hartford Fair Entry Instructions when making your entries. Entry deadline is Friday, June 27, 2025.
Please note:
- The Hartford Fair Entry Portal can be found by visiting: http://hartfordfair.fairentry.com
- Please be sure to review the Hartford Fair Premium Book to ensure you know which Classes and Lots you will be making entries for before you start that process.
- All 4-H families must use their 4-HOnline Credentials (email and password) to log into FairEntry. If a member creates a new account in FairEntry, they will be unable to make entries in Junior Fair Departments as those departments require them to be enrolled in the appropriate 4-H project in order to make entries.
- All FFA members making entries in livestock departments will submit their own entries. Those entering projects in the FFA Building will do so through their advisor.
- Please make sure that you add all entries to each exhibitor in your family before you submit the entries and continue to the payment portal.
- REMINDER: All youth planning to participate in Showmanship MUST make an entry for their Showmanship class. Even if a member isn’t sure about whether they want to do Showmanship or not, they should go ahead and make an entry for it.
Photo IDs
NEW THIS YEAR: Members will upload their photo for their Fair ID as part of their entry process in FairEntry. There will be a question early in the process that will ask you to upload a photo. PLEASE NOTE: the system does NOT require you to upload the photo (which means you can accidentally skip this step). We had to make it optional, otherwise it would require it for everyone making entries, including those making just Open Department entries who don’t receive Fair IDs. If you skip this step and do not upload a photo, you will not have a Fair ID. Also, photos for IDs must be uploaded into FairEntry by the deadline of June 27th. All photos will be pulled from the entries at this point and sent for printing so that we have the IDs back to us in time to pass them out in the days leading up to fair. Late photos will not be accepted.
Your photo for your Fair ID must be either a jpeg or png file. The photo should be of the member’s head and shoulders with a light colored, neutral background. Exhibitors should not be wearing hats, sunglasses or bandanas in their photo. Please see examples of photos that don’t meet the criteria and one that does:
Glitches and Issues
As we’ve discovered recently, FairEntry does occasionally have glitches that can occur. If you run into issues please reach out to Adrienne at anderson.1410@osu.edu. Sending screenshots of the error you are receiving can be very helpful in figuring out what is going wrong. Please do NOT wait until the last minute to complete your entries as that gives us less time to help you solve the issue. PLEASE NOTE: Lisa and Adrienne will be at 4-H Camp June 17-21 at 4-H Camp Ohio. Please realize that we have limited access to emails during this time and will not be able to respond quickly in most cases.
FairEntry Help Session
We will be offering our final help session for those who may want/need help with making entries. Our final session will be held at the Hartford Fairgrounds in the Junior Fair Board Office on Thursday, June 26th between 5:00-7:00pm. If you plan to come to the help session, please be prepared with list of items on the flyer HERE or listed below.
