2024 Sale Information and Updates:
- The 2024 Jr. Fair Sale would be “partial terminal.” Details of that decision are linked here.
- Live animals will be taken in the sale ring.
- Due to limited availability for custom livestock harvest and processing capacity, buyers must now finalize arrangements prior to the start of the fair for the hauling and/or pickup of their KEEP animals. Your buyers can find more detail linked here and also visit the Buyer Info page.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – 5:00 p.m. – Feeder Creek Vet Show Arena
Sale Order: Market Beef, Dairy Feeders/Steers, Dairy Products, and Market Hogs
Friday, October 11, 2024 – 10:00 a.m. – Feeder Creek Vet Show Arena
Sale Order: Market Lambs, Market Poultry, Market Rabbits, Dairy Goat Products, and Market Goats
- All market animals except poultry will be packer bid and sold based on the Saturday/Sunday weigh-in weight except for MQP animals.
- The following minimum/maximum weights will be used to be eligible to sell individually: Market Beef – 1100 pounds; Dairy Feeders – 300-700 pounds; Dairy Steers – 1100 pounds; Market Hogs – 225-295 pounds; Market Lambs – 100-150 pounds; Market Goats – 60 pounds; Market Rabbits – 7.00 to 15.50 pounds total pen weight; Pen of Three Market Chickens – 12-23 pounds pen weight; Market Duck – 6-10 pounds.
- NOTE: In 2024 the Fairfield County Jr. Fair Sale will be partial terminal as indicated above.
- With the exception of poultry which will go home as in the past, if you make the decision to take home your market animal in 2024, the ‘take home’ affidavit must be completed at your specie weigh-in. Paper forms will be available from your Superintendent. Take Market Animal Home Affidavits are due at weigh-in at the fair, no exceptions. Review Fairfield County Junior Fair Rule Book for more information.
- Exact sales commission that will be deducted from the Junior Fair Exhibitor’s checks will be determined after the expenses of the sale are known, but will not exceed 4%.
- 4-H and FFA Advisors can pick up their club/chapter buyer lists from the OSU Extension Office no earlier than Tuesday, October 15th, 2024.
- Exhibitors must submit a stamped thank you note to their advisor prior to November 1st. Advisors will be required to turn in their Buyer Checklist with verification of thank you notes sent in order to receive an exhibitor’s check.
- Checks will TENTATIVELY be available the first Saturday in December for the head Advisors of 4-H and FFA to pick-up. These advisors will be responsible for the distribution of checks in their club/chapter. If a check is not cashed within the specified 90 day period from the check date, there will be a Stop Payment Fee deduction imposed and a replacement check issued to the exhibitor. If checks are not picked up the first Saturday in December, they will be deposited back into the Sale Committee Fund.
Additional information:
- Again this year every market turkey, duck or chicken will go through the sale either individually or in a group. Regardless there will not be a packer bid for poultry that exhibitors are required to accept. Similar to 2016 and prior, 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.