Bow Knot 4-H Newsletter 431 So. 10 th Avenue Broken Bow, NE 68822 (308) 872-6831 www.custer.unl.edu March 2018 UPCOMING EVENTS MARCH 1 Deadline for ad sales 1 Deadline for Premium Book Cover Photo Contest 2 4-H Scholarship Application deadline 3 County 4-H Indoor Archery Match, Shooting Range, Fairgrounds 11 2018 CWF Curriculum Meeting, 4-H Building, 2:00-4:00 p.m. 15 Final 2018 CWF Payment Due 17 Nebraska State 4-H BB Gun Championships, Beatrice 18 Nebraska State 4-H Air Rifle Championships, Beatrice 19 4-H Council Meeting, 4-H Building, 7:30 p.m. 24-25 Nebraska State 4-H Pistol Championships, Broken Bow 24-25 4-H Roping Clinic, Grand Island 26 PSA s Emailed and Registrations for 4-H Public Speaking Contest due online APRIL 1 **Deadline for 4-H ONLINE Enrollments** 1 Deadline for 4-H membership contest 2 4-H Public Speaking Contest, 4-H Building, 6:30 p.m. 13 Deadline for 4-H membership fees due in the Extension Office from Organizational Leaders 15 Market Beef DNA Deadline for State Fair & Aksarben 21-22 Nebraska 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor Certification, Scottsbluff 27 Office closed for Arbor Day Holiday 28 West Central Regional 4-H Speech Contest, North Platte 29 Nebraska State 4-H Clay Target Championships, Grand Island MAY 1 Camp Counselor Applications Due 1 4-H T-Shirt Orders due 11 4-H Horse ID s due in Extension Office 11 State and District 4-H Horse Show Entries due in Extension Office 15 2020 CWF Payment Due 21 4-H Council Meeting, 4-H Building, 7:30 p.m. 20 6th Annual Custer County Challenge Beef Progress Show, Fairgrounds in Broken Bow 24 Animal Science Youth Field Day, Curtis 28 Office closed for Memorial Day 30 Animal Quality Assurance Training, Broken Bow City Auditorium, evening 4-H PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST Monday, April 2, 2018 4-H Building, Broken Bow 6:30 p.m. Contest rules were included with the February 4-H Bow Knot newsletter. Registration will be online this year. Registrations must be made by March 26. The registration link is: https://goo.gl/forms/amcrocyotasbsvqf1. PSA s must also be emailed to cpeterson2@unl.edu by March 26. PSA text is not required this year. All speech contestants must also be enrolled in 4-H through the 4-H ONLINE enrollment system by March 26 in order to compete in the contest. Contact Colleen if you have any questions. CUSTER COUNTY YOUTH ANIMAL QUALITY ASSURANCE TRAINING Nebraska Extension in Custer County is once again partnering with Adams Land and Cattle to hold a Youth Quality Assurance Training. We have some exciting things planned for this year s Youth QA Training. Please mark the evening of Wednesday, May 30 on your calendar for the 2018 Youth Quality Assurance training. A registration form will be included with the April Bow Knot newsletter.
4-H ENROLLMENT DEADLINE APRIL 1, 2018 As you know, Nebraska 4-H introduced a new 4-H online enrollment system, called 4-H Online, in 2015. enrollments are no longer used. The process is easy and should only take a few minutes per member. Paper Enrollment for ALL MEMBERS (YOUTH) AND ADULT VOLUNTEER LEADERS, must be completed on 4-H Online. There are instructions for the following: 4-H Members - New Enrollments 4-H Members - Re-enrollments 4-H Volunteer Leaders - New Enrollments 4-H Volunteer Leaders - Re-enrollments These instructions and 4-H Online link are available at the Extension Office or can be found online at: http://extension.unl.edu/statewide/custer/4h-online-registration/ Enrollment deadline is April 1. There is an online payment option for membership fees, however, Custer County will not be using this option. The fee online for Custer County will be set to $0. That does not mean there is not a membership fee. It means that organizational leaders will need to collect the $7.00 per member and turn it in to the Extension Office as in the past. Checks should be made payable to: 4-H Activities. For Organizational Leaders Only As soon as the April 1 deadline is past, we will create reports of your members and send them to you very quickly so that you will know who is enrolled in your 4-H club. We will give organizational leaders until Friday, April 13, to turn in their $7.00 per member fees based on the 4-H Online enrollments for their club. You can be collecting the $7.00 per member fee prior to that time, as you know members have enrolled. Please turn in your club s membership fees to the Extension Office on or before Friday, April 13. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call, (308) 872-6831. 2018 BIG RED SUMMER ACADEMIC CAMPS The 2018 Big Red Summer Academic Camps, to be held June 10-15, are only four months away! Information about Big Red Summer Camps is available online at: https://4h.unl.edu/big-red-camps Big Red Summer Academic Camps will all be held at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Campuses. Some of the camp offerings include: Discover Education, Discover Engineering, Discover Entrepreneurship, Discover Filmmaking, Discover Outdoor Nebraska, Discover Veterinary Science, Discover Weather & Climate Science, and Discover Unicameral Youth Legislature. If youth are interested in any of these topics as careers, these camps would be an excellent introduction!
4-H SHOOTING SPORTS NEWS The State 4-H BB Gun and Air Rifle Championships are scheduled for March 17-18 at Beatrice. Pre-registrations were due online by March 3. Registration information is available at the Extension Office or can be found online at http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/calendar. The State 4-H BB Gun Championships will be held on March 17 and the State 4-H Air Rifle Championships will be held on March 18. The Nebraska State 4-H Pistol Championships will be held on March 24-25 at the Custer County Fairgrounds, Broken Bow. Register online at: http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/calendar. For more information, contact Jeff Krivohlavek at (402) 646-9049 or Ron Carda at (308) 872-3371. A Nebraska 4-H Shooting Sports Leader Certification Workshop is scheduled for April 21-22 in Scottsbluff. Partial scholarships will be available from the Custer County 4-H Council. Contact Colleen at the Extension Office for scholarship information. More details on the workshop will be available soon at: https://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/instructor/calendar. The State 4-H Clay Target Championship will be held April 29 at the Heartland Public Shooting Park in Grand Island. This will also be a qualification match for the 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships. Registration information will be available at http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/calendar. The Nebraska State 4-H Outdoor & 3D Archery Tournament will be held June 2-3 at the Heartland Public Shooting Park in Grand Island. More details will be available at a later date. Event information will be available on the internet at http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/calendar. The 2018 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships will be held June 24-29 in Grand Island. The 4-H Firearms Shooting Matches will be held on July 27-28 at the Custer County Fair. The 2018 Nebraska Youth Smallbore Silhouette Invitational will be held on Saturday, September 29 at the Pressey Wildlife Management Area near Oconto. Watch the State 4-H Shooting Sports website for more competition dates and registration information at: http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports * * * * * * * * * * * * ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF A HIPPOLOGY TEAM? Hippology (from Greek: ἵππος, hippos, "horse"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is the study of the horse. Today, Hippology is the title of an Equine Veterinary and Management Knowledge Contest that is used in 4-H, FFA, and many horse breed contests. Christy Berghorst is interested in working with 4-H members who would like to learn more about Hippology and possibly compete in some contests. If you are interested, contact Christy at (308) 935-1105. NEBRASKA 4-H ROPING CLINIC A 4-H Roping Clinic will be held March 24-25 at the Lilienthal Indoor Arena in Grand Island. Topics of the clinic will be breakaway roping, tie down roping, and team roping. The main instructors for the clinic will be Justin and Garrett Nokes. The Nokes train roping horses, are PRCA ropers, and have been qualifiers for the National Finals Rodeo. Registration fees are $60/day without a horse and $80/day with a horse. Spectators are free! Registrations and payments are due March 16. Contact the Extension Office for registration forms and more information. TURN UP THE HEAT! 2018 CHOICE GAS CONTEST Constellation serves 60 counties in Nebraska as part of the Choice Gas program. In the past five years alone, Constellation has contributed more than $197,000 to 4-H and FFA in these counties. Customers have the opportunity to choose Constellation as their competitive natural gas supplier during the Choice Gas selection period (April 13-26, 2018). Constellation provides a base amount of support to 4-H in each county and all 60 counties are guaranteed of this base amount. Constellation provides additional dollars based on the number of customers who choose Constellation in that county. The more customers in a county who choose Constellation, the more dollars contributed to 4-H and FFA in that county. Additionally, the Turn Up The Heat contest provides even more dollars for the top five counties showing the greatest percentage of increase of customers during the selection period compared to the previous year. The video created by Constellation featuring many Nebraska 4-H youth, volunteers, and staff members can be viewed at http://go.unl.edu/constellation. The Custer County 4-H Council benefits from the donations from Constellation! The funds have been used for 4-H awards and donations for trips for youth. Let s Turn Up The Heat in Custer County!
CAN ANIMALS BE SHOWN IN BOTH 4-H AND FFA SHOWS? The answer is NO for the county fair! At the county fair, no individual animal may be shown in both 4-H and FFA or in both breeding and market classes. (Taken from 2017 Custer County Fair Premium Book, General Livestock Rules, p. 83.) However, at the Nebraska State Fair...If an animal was shown in the 4-H division at the county fair, they may be entered in the FFA division at the State Fair, or vice versa, if all State Fair identification requirements were met. The designation must be made when entries are made online by the 4-H families by August 10. PREMISES ID & YOUTH LIVESTOCK PROJECTS A current copy of the Premises ID pamphlet is included with this Bow Knot newsletter. The wording under Requirements for Youth makes it clear that any animal carrying an EID tag, regardless if their endpoint is the county fair, State Fair, or AKSARBEN, must have a Premises ID correlated with that entry. This is for ANY species...meat goat, sheep, swine, beef. The pamphlet goes into the reasoning behind EID tags and Premises ID, and also lays out the steps needed to obtain a Premises ID. This pamphlet has been reviewed by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture and Nebraska Extension professionals. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Extension Office. RABBIT IDENTIFICATION PROCESS FOR STATE FAIR State Fair pre-entry deadline is August 10. Rabbit exhibitors will have the option to enter up to 10 rabbit entries into the online entry system...showorks. Rabbit exhibitors will only be allowed to show 5 rabbits at the State Fair. Any rabbit that was pre-entered into ShoWorks by August 10 will be eligible as a substitution. The family would incur a $3 fee per rabbit. There will be no refunds for rabbit entries into ShoWorks. Families are not required to pre-enter more than five rabbits but will not be able to make substitutions at check-in. There will be no identification of rabbits prior to the August 10 pre-entry deadline. Rabbits that will be entered at the Custer County Fair will still need to be identified by June 15 on the Rabbit Identification Form. NOTE TO 4-H CLUBS WHO USE THE SHOOTING SPORTS BUILDING (BUILDING 18) AT THE FAIRGROUNDS The Custer County Ag Society voted at their February 10, 2011 meeting to ask all 4-H clubs who use the Shooting Sports Building (Building 18) at the Fairgrounds for monetary donation(s) to help defray the costs of utilities (heat, electricity, air conditioning) effective immediately. The Ag Society would also consider in-kind labor for projects at the Fairgrounds, in lieu of monetary donation(s) from 4-H clubs. Clubs who would like to provide in-kind labor should contact the Ag Society at 870-2493. 4-H CLUBS SHOULD BE COLLECTING SALES TAX 4-H clubs are considered retailers, and should be collecting sales tax when they make sales of tangible personal property to the general public such as cookbooks, Christmas cards, t-shirts, etc. Also, concession sales of hotdogs, hamburgers, candy bars, etc. at special events such as county fairs are subject to sales tax. When 4-H clubs make purchases of items they will be reselling, they can purchase these items tax free as a sale for resale. If your clubs are considering making these types of sales, they should contact the Nebraska Department of Revenue and apply for a Nebraska Sales Tax Permit. A Nebraska sales tax permit can be applied for by using a Nebraska tax application Form 20. The Nebraska Department of Revenue also provides educational opportunities for taxpayers interested in learning about their sales tax responsibilities as a Nebraska retailer. The Department of Revenue offers sales tax seminars every spring and fall, and will gladly speak to small groups. If your club would like to have a speaker, feel free to contact Taxpayer Services, North Platte, Nebraska, (308) 535-8291.
CAMPS...CAMPS...CAMPS Each 4-H family is receiving a colorful 4-H camp flier with this issue of the Bow Knot newsletter. SIGN UP NOW...EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEE FOR SUMMER 4-H CAMPS...SAVE 10% WHEN REGISTERING ON OR BEFORE APRIL 15! REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: https://4h.unl.edu/camps Youth may attend any of the camps. Camps will be filled on a first come, first served basis, so be sure to get your registrations sent as soon as possible. Youth do not need to belong to 4-H to attend these camps. A more complete camp brochure can be viewed online at: https://4h.unl.edu/documents/camp-brochure-2018.pdf. CAMPERSHIPS AVAILABLE! With the support of the Nebraska 4-H Foundation and its donors, we are able to offer a limited number of Camperships (scholarships) to support participation of young people at the 2018 4-H Summer Camps. If you have a camper in need of such support your request is welcomed. Camperships must be awarded prior to registration. Requests can be sent to: Lindsay Shearer at email lshearer2@unl.edu or by phone at (402) 472-2846. Take a friend, make a friend! Sign up now! 4-H ENROLLMENT DUE APRIL 1! April 1 is the deadline for all youth and leaders to be enrolled using the 4-H Online enrollment system. All youth who would like to participate in the Custer County 4-H program for the 2018 year need to complete the 4-H Online enrollment process on or before April 1. Youth may still join a 4-H club after the April 1 deadline, however, they will be ineligible to participate in exhibiting or competition activities. That includes the Custer County Fair. The 4-H Council policy for late enrollments states, The deadline for membership and project enrollment was discussed. Lori Cox moved and Tom Hoff seconded that the deadline be moved to April 1. 14 voted in favor - 3 opposed. Carried. Lori moved to allow membership after the deadline but that the new member not be allowed to participate in exhibiting or competition activities. Joni seconded. Carried. (From 4-H Council Minutes - January 15, 1996) Enclosures To Everyone 2018 4-H Summer Camps & Trips Flier Premises ID & My Youth Livestock Project Flier Troy M. Walz Extension Educator twalz1@unl.edu Colleen Peterson 4-H Aide cpeterson2@unl.edu