Bow Knot 4-H Newsletter 431 So. 10 th Avenue Broken Bow, NE 68822 (308) 872-6831 www.custer.unl.edu March 2017 UPCOMING EVENTS MARCH 1 Deadline for ad sales 1 Deadline for Premium Book Cover Photo Contest 3 4-H Scholarship Application deadline 3 Application deadline for 2017 Governor s Agricultural Excellence Award 6 Entries due in county office for 4-H Horse Stampede and Companion Animal Challenge 11-12 Nebraska State 4-H Air Pistol Championships, Lincoln 12 2018 CWF Curriculum Meeting, 4-H Building, 2:00 p.m. 15 2018 CWF Payment Due 17 Registrations for Custer County 4-H Indoor Archery Match due in Extension Office 18 Nebraska State 4-H BB Gun Championships, Kimball 19 Nebraska State 4-H Air Rifle Championships, Kimball 20 4-H Council Meeting, 4-H Building, 7:30 p.m. 25 County 4-H Indoor Archery Match, Shooting Range, Fairgrounds 26 Registrations due for 4-H Roping Clinic 30 Registration and PSA s for 4-H Public Speaking Contest due in Extension Office APRIL 1 Deadline for 4-H ONLINE Enrollments 1 Deadline for 4-H membership contest 1 4-H Horse Stampede and Companion Animal Challenge, Lincoln 1-2 Nebraska 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor Certification, Albion 1-2 4-H Roping Clinic, Grand Island 6 4-H Public Speaking Contest, 4-H Building, 6:30 p.m. 10 Deadline for 4-H membership fees due in the Extension Office 15 Market Beef DNA Deadline for State Fair & Ak-Sar-Ben 23 State 4-H Clay Target Championships, Grand Island 28 Office closed for holiday 29 West Central Regional 4-H Speech & Interview Contests, North Platte MAY 1 Camp Counselor Applications Due 1 Pre-registrations due for 5 th Annual Custer County Challenge Beef Progress Show 1 4-H T-Shirt Orders due 8 Deadline for Life Challenge Sign-Up 12 4-H Horse ID s due in Extension Office 12 State and District 4-H Horse Show Entries due in Extension Office 15 2018 CWF Payment Due 15 4-H Council Meeting, 4-H Building, 8:00 p.m. 21 5 th Annual Custer County Challenge Beef Progress Show, Fairgrounds in Broken Bow 23 Custer County Youth Animal Quality Assurance Training, Evening, Broken Bow 25 Animal Science Youth Field Day, Curtis 29 Office closed for holiday 4-H PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST Thursday, April 6, 2017 4-H Building, Broken Bow 6:30 p.m. 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 Tuesday, May 23 on your calendar for the 2017 Youth Quality Assurance training. A registration form will be included with the April Bow Knot newsletter. Contest rules were included with the February Bow Knot newsletter. If you would like to enter the contest, give your entry information to your organizational leader. Organizational leaders received a contest entry form with the February Bow Knot newsletter. Contest entry forms are due in the Extension Office by Thursday, March 30. CONTEST RULE FOR PSA ENTRIES.The actual PSA s will be due in the Extension Office on Thursday, March 30, along with the club s Public Speaking Contest Entry Form. PSA s may be judged prior to the contest. At the contest, PSA s will be played at the end of the contest while judges are making final placing decisions. Contact Colleen if you have any questions.
4-H ENROLLMENT DEADLINE APRIL 1, 2017 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 youth who are competing in any 4-H shooting sports event prior to April 1...they MUST enroll in 4-H Online by the time of the registration deadline and enroll in the discipline they are shooting. 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 Monday, April 10, 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 Monday, April 10. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call, (308) 872-6831. NEBRASKA 4-H ROPING CLINIC A 4-H Roping Clinic will be held April 1-2 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 26. Contact the Extension Office for registration forms and more information.
4-H SHOOTING SPORTS NEWS The Nebraska State 4-H Air Pistol Championships will be held on March 11-12 at the Nebraska Game & Parks Outdoor Education Center in Lincoln. Match bulletins can be found online at: http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/calendar. For more information, contact Jeff Krivohlavek at (402) 646-9049. The State 4-H BB Gun and Air Rifle Championships are scheduled for March 18-19 at Kimball. Pre-registrations were due online by February 24. 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 18 and the State 4-H Air Rifle Championships will be held on March 19. The Custer County 4-H Indoor Archery Match will be held on Saturday, March 25 at the Shooting Sports Building at the Fairgrounds. 4-H ers may register to shoot at one of the following sessions: Morning Session - Check in at 8:30 a.m., match start time at 9:00 a.m.; Afternoon Session - Check in at 12:30 p.m., match start time at 1:00 p.m. Youth MUST be enrolled in the 4-H archery project in a Custer County 4-H club in the 4-H ONLINE program (by March 17), and under the direct supervision of a certified 4-H archery leader to compete in this match. Contestants must wear blue denim jeans and the choice of a Custer County 4-H t-shirt, 4-H club shooting shirt, or a white shirt with a 4-H chevron. Contestants are to pre-register for the match by returning a completed registration form to the Extension Office by March 17. A Nebraska 4-H Shooting Sports Leader Certification Workshop is scheduled for April 1-2 in Albion. Registration deadline must be completed online by March 24. Adult volunteers and junior leaders can choose one of four disciplines to become certified. Shotgun, Rifle (.22, BB Gun, Air Rifle), Hunting Skills, and Archery will be offered. The Shotgun class is limited to the first 16 paid registrations. The registration fee is $110 per person. The fee includes meals, use of facility, and program materials. It does not include lodging. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and departure will be approximately 4:00 p.m. on Sunday. Partial scholarships are available from the Custer County 4-H Council. Contact Colleen at the Extension Office for scholarship information at least 2 weeks prior to the registration deadline. Online registration information can be found at: http://4h.unl.edu/shooting-sports/instructor/calendar or contact Steve Pritchard at 402-395-2158 or 308-536-2691. Registration deadline is March 22. The State 4-H Clay Target Championship will be held April 23 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 3-4 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 2017 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships will be held June 25-30 in Grand Island. The 4-H Firearms Shooting Matches will be held on July 28-29 at the Custer County Fair. The 2017 Nebraska Youth Smallbore Silhouette Invitational will be held on Saturday, September 30 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * TURN UP THE HEAT! 2017 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 $162,000 to 4-H and FFA in these counties; this amount does not include contributions in previous years made when the company was known as ONEOK. Customers have the opportunity to choose Constellation as their competitive natural gas supplier during the Choice Gas selection period (April 17-27, 2017). 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!
The Aksarben Stock Show is moving to its new location in Grand Island, Nebraska in 2017. The $42 million livestock facilities located at Fonner Park includes nearly 500,000 square feet of state-of-the-art exhibition, livestock, and equine facilities constructed initially for the Nebraska State Fair. These facilities will ensure the sustainability and growth of Aksarben s 90-year-old 4-H livestock exhibition. The dates for the stock show will be Thursday, September 28 through Sunday, October 1, 2017. There will be some scheduling changes from the previous days and times in Omaha. The exact schedule will be coming soon. 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 2016 Custer County Fair Premium Book, General Livestock Rules, p. 85.) However, new in 2016 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 Premises ID pamphlet was handed out at the recent 4-H market beef weigh-in. This pamphlet has been revised since that time. A current copy is included with this Bow Knot newsletter. The wording under Requirements for Youth has been modified to make 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. 4-H CLOVER CHASE: A NEBRASKA 150 EVENT STARTS MARCH 1 Nebraska 4-H, in partnership with the Nebraska 4-H Foundation, is celebrating the Nebraska Statehood 150 with the 4-H Clover Chase! Between March 1-August 15, 2017, Nebraska 4-H will be hosting a photo scavenger hunt for all 4-H members. Using an app, participants will complete challenges and submit photo entries on social media using #NE4HChase. After submitting photos and earning 150 points, participants will be eligible to receive a commemorative water bottle from their local Nebraska Extension Office and will be entered into a drawing to win a drone with video capability. The Nebraska Extension Office with the highest percentage of participation wins a free National Youth Science Day kit! Complete details about the 4-H Clover Chase can be found at http://4h.unl.edu/clover-chase. Celebrate Nebraska s Statehood, and Nebraska 4-H, by participating in this fun-filled opportunity with your friends, club, or family!
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: http://4h.unl.edu/summer-camp 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://unl.app.box.com/s/ru5wavfrcorcot90gm7b7o8g1sr9iahh. 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 2017 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! 2017 BIG RED SUMMER ACADEMIC CAMPS The 2017 Big Red Summer Academic Camps, to be held June 11-16, are only four months away! Information about Big Red Summer Camps is available online at: http://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 Chickens, Discover Culinary Arts, 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 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.
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 2017 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) 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. Enclosures To Everyone 2017 4-H Summer Camps & Trips Flier Premises ID & My Youth Livestock Project Flier To Members & Leaders Enrolled in the 4-H Archery Project Custer County 4-H Indoor Archery Match Registration Form Troy M. Walz Jessye Goertz Colleen Peterson Extension Educator Extension Educator 4-H Aide twalz1@unl.edu jgoertz1@unl.edu cpeterson2@unl.edu