Buyers Club Support Youth at 2023 Jr. Fair Livestock Sale!

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Thanks to the generosity the 28 local donors listed below, the 2023 Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Buyers Club was able to directly benefit 188 local youth as they marketed their Junior Fair market projects. The Buyers Club was made up of local donors who, prior to the sale, pooled a total of $13417 that were in turn used to bid on and purchase market animals during the 2023 Fairfield County Junior Fair Livestock Sale.

Many thanks to the donations of these 2023 Buyer Club members:

Amanda Family Dental

Anthony J Mampieri-Merit Advisor LLC

Ag Bag-Golden Hills Sales

Barbara Miller

Bentz Farms in Memory of Charles Bentz Sr

Brad and Jenna Shirey

Buckeye Automotive Family-Nissan Honda Toyota, Georgesville Nissan

Connie and Stan Smith

DEYO Construction INC. & Deyo Farms

Dr. Carrie L Brown, County Auditor

Fairfield County Antique Tractor Club

Fairfield Financial Solutions Inc

Grube Farms LLC

Heaston Heating and Cooling

Keller Family Chiropractic

Keller Farms Greenhouse

Millersport Lions Sweet Corn Festival

PMM Hauling LLC

Rube’s Concessions, Ronda Spangler and Rachelle Ruble

Ruff & Associates CPA

Ruffwing Farms LLC

Shawn Evans and Brian Kilbarger dba The Carriage Company

The Beery Family

The Keller Group

The Savings Bank

T & T Ag Solutions

Twin City Legacy Freezer Beef, Jerrod George

Walker’s Shoe Center

Market projects belonging to 188 different youth were bid on throughout the sales that were held on Thursday and Friday during the Fair. Ultimately the Buyers Club purchased the market projects of 47 different youth.

The Buyers Club is managed by the Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Committee. Contributions are accepted throughout the year in any amount and are 100% tax deductible.

The funds that are contributed to the Buyers Club are then pooled and used to bid on and make purchases of projects throughout the sale that may have lesser buyer support. The goal is to ensure that all youth earning a sale slot are rewarded for their hard work and effort while also allowing another opportunity for additional buyers to participate in the Junior Fair Livestock Auction.

To become a member of the 2024 Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Buyers Club all you need to do is complete this form and submit it by October 4, 2024 along with your tax deductible contribution to the Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Committee.

As you know the Junior Fair Sale is the culmination of months, and for many youth years of dedication and hard work with their 4-H and FFA market projects. Many of these young people use the proceeds of the sale of their animals to fund their next project while also saving money for their college fund.

Many thanks to those who made the 2023 Buyers Club a success, and thank you for considering this as an opportunity to support the 4-H and FFA youth of Fairfield County, and investing in their future. If you have any questions, please contact Sale Committee President Doug Shell at (740) 404-1505 or lshell171@gmail.com, or visit https://u.osu.edu/livestocksale/buyers-club/

Buyers Club Supports 287 Youth at the 2022 Jr Fair Sale!

Thanks to the generosity 21 local donors, the 2022 Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Buyers Club was able to benefit 287 local youth as they marketed their Junior Fair market projects. The Buyers Club was made up of local donors who, prior to the sale, pooled their dollars that were in turn used to bid on and purchase market animals during the 2022 Junior Fair Livestock Sale.

Many thanks to the donations of these 2022 Buyer Club members:

Amanda Family Dental

Andrea and Scott Anderson

Anne Keller

Bachman Brothers

Bartlett Benner Realty

Buckeye Nissan/Georgesville Nissan

Cheryl Ricketts

CLM Ventures

Connie and Stan Smith

Fairfield County Antique Tractor Club

Fairfield County Democratic Party

Frank E. Smith Funeral Home and Crematory

Golden Hill Sales

Grace Ahrens

Grube Farms LLC

Keller Farms Greenhouse and The Keller Group

Majors Farms

New Day Ag Services

Oakland Grocery

Rube’s Concessions, Ronda Spangler and Rachelle Ruble

The Savings Bank

Market projects belonging to 287 different youth were bid on throughout the sales that were held on Thursday and Friday during the Fair. Ultimately the Buyers Club purchased the market projects of 42 different youth.

The Buyers Club is managed by the Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Committee. Contributions are accepted throughout the year in any amount and are 100% tax deductible.

The pool of funds that are contributed to the Buyers Club are then used to make purchases of projects throughout the sale that may have lesser buyer support than others. The goal is to ensure that all youth earning a sale slot are rewarded for their hard work and effort while also allowing another opportunity for additional buyers to participate in the Junior Fair Livestock Auction.

To become a member of the 2023 Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Buyers Club all you need to do is complete this form and submit it by October 6, 2023 along with your tax deductible contribution to the Fairfield County Junior Fair Sale Committee.

As you know the Junior Fair Sale is the culmination of months, and for many youth years of dedication and hard work with their 4-H and FFA market projects. Many of these young people use the proceeds of the sale of their animals to fund their next project while also saving money for their college fund.

Many thanks to those who made the 2022 Buyers Club a success, and thank you for considering this as an opportunity to support the 4-H and FFA youth of Fairfield County, and investing in their future. If you have any questions, please contact Sale Committee President Doug Shell at (740) 404-1505 or lshell171@gmail.com, or visit https://u.osu.edu/livestocksale/buyers-club/

“Partial Terminal” Sale; Frequently asked questions answered

To further clarify the details of implementing a partial-terminal livestock sale in 2021 and beyond, review these FAQs:

  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my gilt home after the show and she ends up being Champion gilt, but not overall Grand or Reserve, do I lose my sale slot for that animal?
  • Yes, you do lose that sale slot. In order to have a sale slot the animal must remain at the Fair and be available to participate in the Jr. Livestock Sale. Take home or exhibitor ‘keep’ animals are released and expected to go home after their shows are complete.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my gilt home after the show and she ends up being Champion gilt, but not overall Grand or Reserve, does the Reserve Champion gilt move into that sale slot?
  • That’s a decision the Show committee will make as they assemble the sale order.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my gilt home after the show and she ends up being Champion gilt, but not overall Grand or Reserve, can my second gilt that I’m not taking home have the sale slot earned by my higher placing first gilt that I am taking home?
  • No, each animal will must earn it’s own sale slot based on how it places and the criteria used by the Show Committee as they assemble the sale order.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my dairy feeder calf home and it makes the sale as third overall dairy feeder, do I lose that sale slot?
  • Yes, you do lose your sale slot. Much like the gilt example above, in order to have a sale slot the animal must remain at the Fair and be available to participate in the Jr. Livestock Sale.
  1. If a dairy feeder forfeits a sale slot as indicated in Q #4 above, do all the calves below that calf move up one, thus allowing what was the 7th overall dairy feeder to then make the sale?
  • Yes, 6 dairy feeders will still earn sale slots so if a sale slot is forfeited, the calves below each move up.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my ewe lamb home and she becomes the third overall market lamb, do I lose the sale slot that animal earned?
  • Like the gilt and dairy feeder examples above, in order to have a sale slot the animal must remain at the Fair and be available to participate in the Jr. Livestock Sale.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my ewe lamb home and she becomes the third overall market lamb, does the 4th place overall lamb move into that sale slot?
  • Like examples above, that’s a decision the Show committee will make as they assemble the sale order.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking my market beef steer(s) home and I become Premier Exhibitor, do I lose my sale slot because I don’t have a market beef to sell?
  • Yes, you will lose the Premier Exhibitor sale slot which is the third to sell the beef sale. As indicated above, you must have an animal in a respective specie’s sale in order to participate in that sale.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in to take my market beef home, can I still be the Premier Beef Exhibitor, but just without a sale slot?
  • Yes, you will remain the Premier Exhibitor.
  1. If I lose my sale slot because I decide to take my market beef animals home, does the second place Premier Exhibitor get my sale slot?
  • No, only the 1st place Premier Exhibitor earns a sale slot, and in their absence there will simply be no Premier Exhibitor sale slot this year.
  1. If I declare at weigh-in that I’m taking a market animal home, thus forfeiting any potential sale slot with that animal, do I also forfeit the privilege of receiving any “add-on” premiums from a sale buyer for that animal?
  • In order to receive add-on sale premium money it must be added on to an animal that is in the sale as either an individual sale animal or being sold in a group.
  1. Does the same hold true for any potential premiums a dairy feeder might have earned as the result of the sale of the dairy products?
  • No, regardless if a youth takes their dairy feeder home, their ability to share in dollars resulting from the sale of the dairy products is unchanged. Premiums earned from the sale of the product ‘baskets’ through the sale are tied to the youth and have never been tied to individual animals.

“Partial Terminal” Sale Approved for Junior Fair Market Animals

During their regular monthly meeting on March 16, 2021, the Fairfield County Sr. Fair Board passed a motion declaring the 2021 Jr. Fair Livestock Sale will be “partial terminal.” Specifically, that motion reads:

The 2021 Fairfield County Fair Junior Fair will have a partial terminal sale/show for all species. The only exception to this is the 8 champions that must be slaughtered and inspected at a designated packer according to ODA (grand/reserve market beef, grand/reserve market hog, grand/reserve market lamb, grand/reserve market goat). Take homes will be allowed for all species with the exception of those 8 declared grand/reserve champions. Take homes must be declared before the animal leaves the scale during check-in (no exceptions). Take home animals will lose their sale slot and will not be eligible for a premium and packer bid. Exhibitors who do not take home must qualify for their sale slot (as individual or group) at the discretion of the species show committee.

Since the “partial terminal” sale will be continued in 2022, points for exhibitors of market animals to consider include:

  1. Since there is no packer bid available, all market turkeys, market chickens and market ducks will go back home at the conclusion of the Fair as in past years. No Exhibitor Intent to Take Market Animal Home affidavit is required for those poultry animals.Buyers of the Grand and Reserve Champion turkeys, chickens and ducks have the privilege of ‘keeping’ their purchases. Similar to 2016 and prior, beyond the champions it will be the responsibility of the exhibitor to decide whether to process their birds and give them to their sale buyer or market them privately.
  2. Exhibitors of all other market animals that have an opportunity to earn a sale slot must declare before they leave the scales during weigh-in at the beginning of the Fair if they will choose to take home a market animal by submitting the Exhibitor Intent to Take Market Animal Home affidavit.
  3. Per Ohio Department of Agriculture rules, the ‘live’ Champion and Reserve Champion market beef, market hogs, market lambs and market goats must go to slaughter and may not go home with the exhibitor regardless their choice during weigh-in prior to fair.
  4. Unless named Grand Champion or Reserve Grand Champion market beef, market hog, market lamb, market goat, market duck, market turkey, market chicken or dairy feeder calf during their respective Junior market show, animals designated by their exhibitor to go home after the fair will forfeit the opportunity to accept buyer add-on dollars or earn a livestock sale slot with that animal.
  5. Animals not designated by the exhibitor during weigh-in to go home will compete for an individual or group livestock sale slot as they have in the past.
  6. Buyers will once again have the opportunity to ‘keep’ animals they purchase in the sale.

To further clarify the details of implementing a partial-terminal livestock sale in 2021 and beyond, review the answers to the FAQs linked here.

The Exhibitor Intent to Take Market Animal Home affidavit linked here is to be used to designate a youth is choosing to take home a market animal.