COOPERATIVE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IMPERIAL COUNTY INTERCOM WHAT S INSIDE Leader's Council Meeting.2 Livestock Leader's Meeting..2 Teen Involvement Conference....2 Junior Department Rules..3 Cap Etiquette.....5 4-H/FFA Relations 6 Flower Show. 8 Our website http://ceimperial.ucdavis.edu GREEN LETTER DAYS JANUARY 2005 January 01 New Year's Day 03 Last Day To Buy Goat, Feeder Calves, Sheep, Swine, All Breeding & Dairy Animals 06 Leaders Council Meeting 7:00pm 08 Mt. Sac. 15 Flower Show 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 20 Livestock Leaders Meeting 7:00pm 21-23 T.I.C. 29 Holtville's Carrot Parade February 03 Leaders Council Meeting 7:00pm 05 Sm/Lg Animal Clinic 17 Livestock Leaders Meeting 7:00pm 21 Presidents Day Office Closed 28 Still Exhibits & Food due at Fairgrounds March 02 Still Exhibits Judged and displayed 03 Livestock Weigh-Ins 04 FAIR STARTS 04 Horse/Small Animal Judging 05-06 Lg. Animal Judging 08 Sm. Animal Round Robin 10 Lg. Animal Round Robin 11 Sm. Animal Auction 12 Lg. Animal Auction 13 - Last Day of Fair 14 Consignment Day 17 Livestock Leaders Meeting 7:00pm 22 South Area Day Pine 24 North Area Day Westmorland 25 Good Friday Office Closed
4-H LEADER'S COUNCIL MEETING There will be a 4-H Leader's Council meeting being held on Thursday, January 6, 2005, 7:00p.m. at the Farm Bureau Auditorium, 1000 Broadway in El Centro, CA. The agenda will consist of final barbecue fundraiser results, monies going back to clubs, livestock clinics, the Teen Involvement Conference and the upcoming Mid-Winter Fair. This will be our first meeting of the 2005-year. Lets make this one a very rewarding year. 4-H LIVESTOCK LEADER'S MEETING What: 4-H Livestock Leader's Meeting When: January 20, 2005 7:00pm Where: Farm Bureau Auditorium 1000 Broadway El Centro, CA The tentative agenda will consist 2005 livestock schedules and working committees. We will need to know how many sheep, beef, swine, goats, calves, and all small animal projects your club has. We need to start working on pen assignments. *Please note: January 3, 2005 is the last date to purchase goats, feeder calves, sheep, swine and all breeding/dairy animals. TEEN INVOLVEMENT CONFERENCE "Reaching For The Stars" 12 th Annual Teen Involvement Conference January 21 23, 2005 Pathfinder Ranch Idyllwild, CA Registration: Early Bird: Application postmarked before December 6, 2004, registration fee is $95. Final Deadline: If your application is postmarked between December 6, 2004 and January 1, 2005, the registration fee is $105. Late Registration: Applications postmarked after January 2, 2005, registration fee is $125. General Information: ~The Teen Involvement Conference is open to all Southern Section 4-H members ages 13-19 years old. Members must be 13 and not older than 19 by January 21, 2005. ~Ages will be verified by the local club leader when signature is given on application. ~All members must agree to abide by the beginning of the conference. Chaperon Information: ~One chaperon is required per 8 members attending. ~To be a chaperon at TIC you must be an enrolled 4-H leader and over the age of 21. ~Chaperons who are driving: You will not be allowed to leave before the early check out which is Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 10:00am. If this is a problem, please contact Tony Bukhardt, (909) 685-0569, prior to the conference.
*TIC IS A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE CONFERENCE, SO GET YOUR APPLICATIONS IN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE* ~Applications must include the following: application, signed code of conduct, signed medical release form, and registration fee in the form of a check or money order made out to the South Section Leader's Council. Please mail completed application package to: Keely Oswald 12 Angello Terrace Grover Beach, CA 93433 T.I.C. applications may be picked up at the 4-H Office. Please call and get your application/money in as soon as possible. JUNIOR LIVESTOCK DEPARMENT RULES January 3, 2005 is the last date to purchase goats, feeder calves, sheep, swine, and all breeding/dairy animals for the 2005 fair. All livestock should be ear tagged and the name of owner and ear tag numbers should be recorded at the fair entry office. Show Uniforms: The official uniform to be worn during livestock shows and auctions consist of white sheet, white skirt/pants, the appropriate tie or scarf, and approved 4-H hat. No other hats will be allowed. Independent Juniors: The uniform to be worn consists of white pants and a white shirt. Exhibitor is not allowed to wear any kind of tie/scarf, emblem or hat. Fair Passes 4-H exhibitor's parents may purchase two seasons credentials good for admission to the fair at a cost of $20.00 each. Each family may purchase one season/parking pass at a cost of $10.00. Bedding All livestock must be bedded in clean wood shavings. The Junior Livestock Foundation will provide shavings for all exhibitors. Market beef, lamb, goat, swine, and Holstein feeder calf limits: Each exhibitor may show two market animals but not two animals of the same species. Exhibitors will be allowed to preregister and enter two species, however, only one animal of each specie may be brought to the fair. *Please note: Market beef and Holstein feeders are the same specie. All group 1 (gold ribbon) market animals may sell through the auction. Exhibitors may sell only one animal through the livestock auction/barn sale. Exception to this rule is the requirement that all supreme/reserve and grand/reserve grand champion must be sold in the auction. Exhibitors may sell their second animal to the packer at the flooring price established by cooperating packing house.
All groups 2/3 blue and red ribbon animals will be sold in the barns. All barn sales must be concluded by 8:00pm on Saturday, March 12, 2005. Animals not sold by 8:00pm must pay 6 1/2 % of buy back price before livestock superintendent releases the animal for removal from the fairgrounds. The exhibitor will be responsible for the proper care (including feeding, watering and bedding of their animal until delivery to purchaser on Monday, March 14, 2005, at 6:00pm. Exhibitors failing to properly care for their animals will for the first infraction receive a written warning and the animal must be cared for immediately; second infraction will result in a $100.00 fine to the exhibitor, and the third infraction will result in mandatory removal of the animal from fairgrounds or an additional $100 fine and forfeiture of any auction and/or premium money. declare intent to sell with the livestock office by 5:00pm on Sunday or they will not sell. Monday afternoon the sale order will be posted on the livestock bulletin board for review. Exhibitors are responsible to verify that the information is correct and to notify the livestock office of any corrections by posted deadline. Any changes pertaining to no declaration on the exhibitor's part will carry a $50.00 fine. Once sale order goes to print there will be no changes. Special Note: Entries deadline Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:00pm. New!! Declare animals to be sold in live auction and barn sale (both large and small) one hour after the exhibitor last specie is shown. Every exhibitor must
CAP ETIQUETTE Wearing the 4-H cap is not a requirement for membership. If a member chooses to wear the cap, the following guidelines should be observed: 1. Anytime a member wears the 4-H cap, he or she should be neat and clean. 2. Girls may wear the 4-H cap anywhere a girl usually wears a hat 4-H meetings and events, various public gatherings, and in church. Boys normally wear hats and caps outdoors, rather than indoors. Boys do not wear caps in church, at meals, or at memorial services, either indoors or outdoors, unless they are serving in a color guard. When boys serve as color guards, they wear caps until the flags are placed and they are seated, at which time they remove their caps. 3. When saluting the American Flag, boys remove their caps and hold them in their right hand over their hearts. 4. 4-H members may wear various items on their caps. Service stripes are worn on the right side, next to and behind the 4-H clover. A service stripe is added at the end of each completed year. A gold stripe is added for each completed year of junior or teen leadership. 5. Star and leadership emblems are worn on the left side of the cap with the star award first, starting 2 inches from the front of the cap. Only the highest star award is worn; when a member is awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star is removed from the cap and replaced by the Silver Star emblem, and so on through All Star. If the member is either a Junior or Teen Leader, that emblem is worn behind the current star. 6. Achievement pins are fastened to the service stripe, starting next to the 4-H clover with the first year pin. The All Star pin is fastened to the center of the All Star emblem. 7. Medals received in the California Incentives and Awards Program may also be worn on the cap. No other pins, awards, or ribbons are to be worn on the cap at any time. 4-H AND FFA RELATIONSHIP S To maintain the fine statewide cooperation that now exists between Cooperative Extension, high school vocational agriculture departments, the
4-H AND FFA RELATIONSHIPS To maintain the fine statewide cooperation that now exists between Cooperative Extension, high school vocational agriculture departments, the California State Grange, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Division of Fairs and Expositions, it is essential that all staff members, leaders and advisors in these organizations and agencies be informed of the joint policy governing projects and enrollment of youth who participate in fairs and expositions as members of the 4-H, FFA, Grange or as Independent Exhibitors. We hope that all leaders, staff, teachers/advisors, fair and exposition officials, and members/exhibitors will observe these policies so that the best interests of all organizations and the member/exhibitors is served educationally. The 4-H, FFA, and Grange organizations recognize the role of the California Department of Food and Agriculture's, Division of Fairs and Expositions to establish and enforce state rules for educational and fair competition at California fairs. These organizations recommend to the Division of Fairs and Expositions that the content of this agreement be supported in the "State Rules For California Fairs" and that equitable rules for independent exhibitors be included. We recommend that the content of this agreement be used as a basis for rule development and enforcement at all endorsed fairs and expositions or other sponsored events. None of the organizations, publicly or privately supported, have the right to determine the extent to which an individual can participate in projects whether as a member of an organization or independent, provided the minimum requirements are met for supervised project work. The member and parents should determine what projects should be undertaken in each organization or independently. Neither the agricultural instructor, the 4-H leader, nor the grange leader should discourage the member from following the choice agreed upon by the member and the parents. It is agreed that when an individual belongs to more than one organization, or exhibits as an independent, he/she must carry a different project in each organization/independent. To further clarify this policy, when a member maintains projects in 4-H, FFA, Grange, or Independently; the projects may not be in the same kind of livestock or crop. For example, an FFA beef project in vocational agriculture and a sheep project in 4-H would be acceptable; but a beef breeding project in FFA and a beef market project in 4-H would not be acceptable even if the animals were of different breeds. A member of an FFA Chapter, Grange, or 4-H unit (club, group, etc.), or independent exhibitor may transfer projects from one organization/independent to another only once during a calendar year. To be able to show a project at an endorsed fair and exposition or other sponsored event, it must be owned and supervised according to the following requirements: * Poultry must be owned for not less than 30 days and be enrolled in the project for not less than 60 days.
* Rabbits must be owned for not less than 30 days and be enrolled in the project for not less than 60 days. * All feeder and breeding animals (except rabbits and poultry) must be owned and supervised for not less than 60 days. * Market sheep, swine, veal and goats must be owned and supervised for not less than 60 days. support the ethical and humane treatment of all animals exhibited at fairs and expositions. We also agree to reinforce the educational emphasis of competitive programs for animals, and maintain the standards of integrity of all participants while attending endorsed fairs and expositions or other sponsored events. * Market beef must be owned and supervised for not less than 120 days. * Horses must be owned/leased and supervised for not less than 120 days. We are in agreement that members are expected to care for, prepare for show, and exhibit their own animals while at the fair or livestock show. However, because of the educational nature of livestock shows it is appropriate on occasion for parents, leaders, or other youth eligible to exhibit at that show, to provide assistance. Assistance should always be given only when the exhibitor is present and actively engaged. We are opposed to inter-organization competition. We agree that separate classes for 4-H, FFA, Grange, and independents should be maintained and strengthened. However, we recognize that in some circumstances combined classes may be appropriate, that decision should be reached with input and agreement by 4-H, FFA, Grange and Independent representatives participating in the affected show. We are in agreement that 4-H, FFA, Grange, and the Division of Fairs and Expositions will unite in an effort to
FLOWER & PLANT SHOW Hosted by: Magnolia & Star Route 4-H Clubs Saturday, January 15, 2005 Place: Rabbit Barn @ Fairgrounds Entries Received: January 14, 2005 4:00pm to 7:00pm Award Ceremony: January 15, 2005 11:00am Pick up plants by 1:00pm January 15, 2005 Rules: 1. All plants must be owned by December 30, 2004. 2. Entries due Jan. 14, 2005 between 4:00pm to 7:00pm NO LATE ENTRIES 3. No entry fees No early registration 4. Limit: 5 per individual, 1 per class 5. Must be enrolled in Plant Science Project(s) 6. Primary members are welcomed to participate with their plants (ribbons only) Judging Criteria: Cultural Perfection The plant those qualities of its species. Is a good representative of the species. Foliage The foliage is a rich green color, of the proper and shape typical of the species. Size According to the variety and pot size. Health The plant is vigorous and free from insect damage, disease, mechanical damage, and sunburn, etc. General Appearance The plant has been groomed; clean leaves, removal of dead branches, damaged leaves and pot is clean. Danish Style Judging: Best of each division receives county winner: Novice, Junior, Intermediate, and Senior. Classes: Class 1 Dish Gardens & Terrariums Class 2 Cut Flowers Class 3 House Plants Class 4 Flower Bowls Class 5 Herb Gardens Class 6 Vegetable Class 7 Trees and Shrubs Class 8 Cactus and Succulents Class 9 Bulbs