4-H Newsletter. April, 2018

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1 4-H Newsletter April, 2018 APRIL 3 4-H Council Meeting, Courthouse 7-8 State Hippology & Horse Judging & Quiz Bowl, Fargo 8 Aerospace Camp, Grand Forks 17 Communication Arts Contest MAY 15 Extension Youth Conf. Reg. due 15 ND Ambassador Application due JUNE 10 Animal Care & Lease due 12 Consumer Choices reg. due tba District Communication Arts contest 19 Consumer Choice contest Extension Youth Conference Ransom County Extension Service PO Box 950, Lisbon ND Phone: ndsu.ransom.extension@ndsu.edu Amazing Carnival and Showcase! Way to go Ransom County 4-Hers and families. Once again you helped to make the carnival a successful and fun event. Set up on Thursday night went very well with so many willing helpers. The majority of the carnival was ready to go in less than an hour. The carnival went well too with all of the clubs and families again so willing to dig in and get the job done. Every year we hear comments from the public about what a fun event this is. Thank you for helping to make this not only a good promotion and fundraiser for 4-H but a fun event for families to come to and enjoy an evening together. Showcase participants, you were totally awesome and amazing!! The West Wing was packed with great projects and displays. You continue to wow me with the ideas that you come up with. Once again you made the judges work hard to determine first, second and third place in each category. Participants in junior project expo were: Lyla Gillespie, Addisyn Berglund, Thomas Gerber, Luke Schwab, Abby Freeberg, Cody Freeberg, Taylar Wolf, Haley McLeod, Addisyn Cavett, Blake Qual, Hailey Qual, Charles Dagman, Jillian Hughes, Jeran Hughes, Mara Kempel, Mikkanna Christl, Ellie Baasch, Ava Baasch, Carter Keller, Ethan Schwab, Tristan Schwab, Nolan Schlect, Kaytlynn Miller, Adria Larson-Holub and Clair Alger. Receiving 1 st place: Taylar Wolf; 2 nd place: Abby Freeberg; and 3 rd place: Tristan Schwab. Participants in senior project expo were: Gabriella Birchem 1 st place; Jena Smith 2 nd place; and a second display from Gabriella Birchem 3 rd place. Decorate Your Duds Participants: Addisyn Berglund, Jocelyn Birklid, Hailey Qual, Blake Qual, Luke Schwab, Tucker Mairs, Carly Mairs and Kaytlynn Miller. Receiving 1 st place: Luke Schwab; 2 nd place: Jocelyn Birklid; and 3 rd place: Carly Mairs. Buy and Show Junior Participants were Hailey Qual, Blake Qual, Carly Mairs, Carson Qual and Ellery Qual. Receiving 1 st place: Ellery Qual; 2 nd place Hailey Qual; and 3 rd place: Carson Qual. County Commissions, North Dakota State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperating NDSU is an EO/AA university

2 Senior Buy & Show: 1 st place went to Gabriella Birchem. Cloverbuds each receive a participation ribbon and those participants were Charlie Birklid, Faith Schwab, Lizzie McLeod, Griffin Mairs, Audra Kempel, Grace Schwab, Adaleene Hansen, Andy Jones and Presley Johnson. You can be so proud of your participation, representing your club and doing an outstanding job on your project. Remember all of these displays and projects can be entered as exhibits at the fair. Cloverbuds are not eligible to participate in the state fair but anyone else can take their project or display to the state fair if you would like. Talk to us in the office if you are interested or if you have questions and we will be happy to help you. Once again congratulations and awesome job to each showcase participant! Bowling Party Winner... Hill & Valley 4-H Club Congratulations to Hill & Valley for having at least 50% of your club participate in the H Showcase event. We had a record number of participants this year with some of those participants competing in two or three areas! The West Wing looked so great with all the displays that showed what our 4-H ers have learned and can do. There were several members of the community who looked at those displays and clothing items and were very impressed. 4-H Council Meeting The Spring 4-H Council meeting will be held on April 3 at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the Ransom County Courthouse. Everyone is invited to attend. The agenda is attached to this newsletter. Agenda items are: Carnival Review, Western 4-H Camp, Livestock Committee Recommendations, Bio Blitz. 4-H Camps are open! 4-H Camp in Washburn is now open for registration of all the camps. There is early-bird registration for the camps so make sure to read them over carefully. For May and June camps the discount cutoff date is May 20. For July camps the discount cutoff date is July 1. 4-H Camp details and Registration are online under the Camp Information & Forms section at: Ransom County 4-H Camp Scholarship The council approved to award $1,000 in scholarships to be used for 4-H Camp in Washburn. Scholarships are $50 per member, which must be a current Ransom County 4-H member, and are awarded to the first 20 members who submit a request to help pay for 4-H Camp in Washburn in A Request Form is available by contacting the Ransom County Extension office, the Ransom County 4-H website or by clicking on the link below. The scholarship will be mailed to the family of the member after they have returned from camp. This scholarship is on a firstcome-first-served basis. Scholarship application Washburn Camp Scholarships The state has scholarships available for anyone wanting to attend the 4-H Camp at Washburn. The scholarship is available at: Camp Scholarships Scholarships remove barriers so all youth who wish to participate in a camp experience have that opportunity. We are fortunate to have a variety of sponsors of camp scholarships. Below are scholarships available for the 2018 camp season. Contact Diane.f.hahn@ndsu.edu for any of these scholarships 1. General Camp Scholarship Application form and instructions on Center for 4-H website (General Camp Scholarship) 2. Military Connected Youth Available to youth of any service branch and can be used for ANY camp at ND 4-H Camp Covers $225 towards registration and families are responsible for remaining $50 and canteen Funded by the 4-H Military Partnerships grant First come first served 3. 1st Time Camper Award Available to youth who have not attended ND 4-H Camp Covers 100% of registration fee

3 Funded by Margaret C. Cargill (MAC) camp grant 4. 2nd Year MAC Available to st Time Camper award recipients who return to camp in 2018 Covers 50% of registration fee Funded by MAC grant 5. 2nd Year MAC Bring A Buddy to camp Available to st Time Camper award recipients who also bring a buddy to camp in 2018 (the buddy is also eligible from scholarship #3 in the list) Covers 100% registration Must be bringing a new camper buddy to camp Transportation assistance is also available. Interested individuals can contact the Center for 4-H for information. Spring Fever Garden Forum sessions: March 26 What s New in the Display Gardens Horticulture as Therapy Growing Ornamental Grasses April 2 Small Statured Ornamental Trees Elms for North Dakota Tough Trees for Tough Sites April 9 Invasive Insects to Watch Out For Preventing Diseases in Your Yard Research on High-Value Crops Goat Shows & Sales Below are sales in the area of Goats, Lamb and Swine. Communication Arts Contest The contest will be held on Tuesday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lisbon High School. Participants can choose to either give a Speech, Broadcast, Commercial, Interpretive Reading (reading a short story from your favorite book), a demonstration on making a food or project, or Cloverbuds can recite the Pledge. Winners will advance to the District Contest in June. District Contest winners will advance on to the State Contest held during the ND State Fair in Minot. The Ransom County 4-H dress code is required. The Registration form and category details are in the 2018 TIPS Book. Horticulture Training Opportunity NDSU Extension is offering a horticulture webinar, Spring Fever Garden Forum. Classes are held at the Ransom County Courthouse Community Room from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Samples are provided to those who attend the training at the courthouse. Please contact our office if you plan to attend Club Pig, Lamb and Goat Sales in North Dakota Saturday, April 7 Brett Levos at the Farm 11:00 a.m. Approximately 30 head of goats th Ave. SE, Chaffee Sunday, April 8 Northern Elite Goat and Lamb Sale 1:00 p.m. Morton County Fairgrounds Approximately 50 head goats, and 20 head lambs Jonna Friesz , Jamie Lundquist Ryan Galbreath Saturday, April 14 Making Memories Sale Noon Ransom County Fairgrounds Approximately 70 head pigs, 20 lambs and 6 goats. Ryan Galbreath , Billie Jo McLeod Saturday April 21, Top of Dakota Sale North Dakota State Fairgrounds Daryl Lies Saturday April 28 Pride of the Prairie Pig Sale NDSU Sheppard Arena Approximately 30 pigs Skip Anderson Noon 1:00 p.m.

4 All these sales with information can be found on Facebook. Contact the individuals listed for further information about their sales. Many of these sales have multiple consignors. I just listed the main contact for each of the sales. All these sales offer high quality livestock that 4-H and FFA youth should have a successful season with. Ransom County Extension Service and 4-H Website Keep informed of Ransom County Extension and 4-H events by visiting our website often. We post current topics and changes to event dates due to weather related issues. Youth Livestock Quiz Bowl Saturday, May 5 in Dickinson If you are interested in participating there will be an initial meeting on April 3 at 6:00 p.m. prior to the 4-H Council Meeting. The meeting will be held in the Community Room of the Ransom County Courthouse. Like us on Facebook! NDSU Extension Service Ransom County If you have any questions or comments please call the Ransom County Extension Service at Sincerely, Brian Zimprich Extension Agent Deb Lee Extension Agent rlh

5 Ransom County 4-H Spring Council Meeting April 3, p.m. Community Room, Courthouse Call to order Secretary's report Treasurer's report OLD BUSINESS: NEW BUSINESS: Carnival Review Western 4-H Camp Livestock Committee Recommendations Bio Blitz Clubs interested in attending June 21 at the Grasslands. Youth in 4 th grade to high school are invited from 1-5 p.m. Please let us know if your club is interested. UPCOMING EVENTS/REMINDERS: Showcase Bowling Party Winner: Hill & Valley Healthy N.D. 4-H Club deadline July 1

6 4-H & FFA Livestock and Equine Committee Meeting January 18, 2018 The Ransom County Livestock and Equine Committee met on Thursday, January 18th at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Ransom County Courthouse. Committee members present for the meeting were Kim Myers, Ryan Galbreath, Tom Nord, Dan Bear, Sara Lyons and Brian Zimprich. The first item up for discussion was the Open Class Horse Show during the fair. A suggestion was brought to the committee to combine the Open Class Horse Show with the 4-H Horse Show on the Sunday prior to the start of the Ransom County Fair. The major reason for suggestion this is that the Open Class Horse Show has become very small and it takes a lot of time to run another horse show for very few exhibitors less than a week apart. The committee suggested to move forward with combining the two shows. It was also stated to keep the three age divisions currently in place for the 4-H Show and to use the same guidelines for age as 4-H. It was also recommended to create an additional age division that would be titled Adult and would be for those exhibitors that have turned 19 before September 1 of the previous year. Dan and Tom will take this recommendation to the Fairboard to get approval to move forward with the changes. In addition to combining the two horse shows it was suggested to bring in a barrel racing event in place of the open class horse show on Sunday with proceeds from the event going to make improvements and purchase equipment for the horse arena. Sara Lyons indicated she would help to line up an individual to work with this event. Next up was discussion on the livestock schedule and premium sale. There has been a lot of talk about the schedule over the last couple of years and even more talk this last year after the Jr. Points Show moved out of the fair and more than likely will not return to the fair. This has opened up the weekend with not much happening around the barns on Saturday and Sunday. There have been complaints that shows are running too late into the evening on Thursday, and the premium sale is getting too late on Friday. The committee reviewed many scenarios, and also reviewed the results from a survey the Extension Office conducted with past premium sale buyers about the possible move of the sale. After much discussion it was decided to leave the premium sale on Friday evening, but would continue to collect feedback from potential buyers as well as exhibitors and families participating in the sale and the committee will review again next year. The committee then looked into the schedule and decided to not make many changes. It was noted that these shows take time and we have a large number of livestock to evaluate over the course of a day and a half. Shows will still run all 4-H lots for a species followed by FFA lots and then conclude the species with anyone that wants to exhibit in the open lots. What will help keep the shows running are for the exhibitors to make sure they are ready to go into the ring when their class is going in and we are not waiting for individuals or looking for someone to get their animal to the ring. The office will work on putting together a show list that will include all exhibitors in a lot and these will be posted in a prominate place in each barn. To try and help with getting shows done early on Thursday evening it was suggested to start the Dairy Cattle show at 11:00 a.m. regardless if the rabbit and poultry shows are complete with dairy goats to follow immediately and beef to follow dairy goats. Because poultry showmanship could be a concern if the poultry show is not complete prior to the start of the large animals the committee also suggested to move both the 4-H and FFA Poultry Showmanship to the beginning of the Poultry Show then if there is a conflict with animals showing the exhibitor could find another showperson to help show one of their animals in the other species. The committee reviewed the livestock sections of the fairbook. The committee made a recommendation to eliminate the Goat Tying Class from the Horse Show. The reason for this is most kids have not had any practice with this event prior to the fair and therefore very few kids are able to successfully tie the goat. It was also noted that it is hard to find goats for the event as many people do not want to loan their goats out for this event as injury could occur and if we can find goats there is usually a rental fee associated with them. Another item suggested for elimination are the group classes that would include the production group and market pen of three in the beef division, the progeny class in the dairy cattle division, the pair of ewes and rams and market pen of three in the sheep division, the preview pen of three and market pen of three in the swine division and the production and progeny groups in the goat division. The reason for this elimination was again to continue to move towards bringing our class list more in line with the state fair class list. Brian brought to the attention of the committee that those livestock exhibitors that would be exhibiting livestock, poultry and rabbits at the 2018 NDSF in the 4-H Division will need to be Youth for the Quality Care of Animals certified. There are a couple ways to become certified. One way is to complete the certification online and the fee for this is $12, and the other way is attending a face-to-face training which will cost $3. Certifications are good for one year. At this time it is considered optional at the county level and Brian asked the group if they thought we should proceed and make it a requirement. At this time the committee recommended to leave it as optional even though they feel it is a very good thing and would highly encourage youth to get certified. Brian will be offering at least one training this spring for those that need to be certified for other shows and the class will be open to anyone that would like to participate and get certified. If there is strong interest in getting certified, Brian will look at additional trainings.

7 Brian also brought up that there is discussion taking place at the state level to introduce a livestock identification program. Because of the current timing this will probably not move forward until Preliminary discussion is that it will be mandatory for youth planning to exhibit at state fair to turn in their livestock identifications by the state fair deadlines in order for those animals to be eligible to be exhibited at the state fair. Again, this will initially be an optional program at the county level. Brian also asked the group if they thought the Animal Care and Lease Form was still doing what it was intended for? The committee agreed at this time it is, but when and if an id system is implemented the form may no longer be needed as there will be other ways to track ownership at that point. It was stated by the committee that in the premium sale section of the fairbook it indicates all members participating in the sale must wear a white shirt with emblem. The committee would like to see this up for discussion at the fall council meeting when the policy manual is reviewed. However, at this time it is in place for 2018 and the superintendents need to make sure all exhibitors going through the sale are appropriately dressed. It was noted that last year there were a few kids that went through in shirts other than white and there was a kid that went through in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. As a reminder these are all recommendations to be brought to the Fairboard, 4-H Council and local FFA Chapters for final consideration. Recommendations may or may not be passed or there may be additional changes to the recommendations prior to passage. Submitted by Brian Zimprich Extension Agent