All 4-H members enrolled in livestock projects are required to complete annual quality assurance training and certification through the Youth for the Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) program. This includes youth enrolled in beef, dairy cattle, goat, sheep, swine, poultry, and rabbit projects. Youth may complete online training courses or attend in-person workshops held by their county Extension Office.

In-person training is June 3rd from 1-2:30 in the 4-H Building.

1. You will have to go online to yqcaprogram.org to enroll for in-person OR online training.
2. In-person training is $3.00 online and then $5.00 at the door. Online training is $12.00.
3. Both trainings will have you take the pre- and post-test online.

**Make sure when enrolling you choose the youth's name! It will automatically pull the parent's name (after paying, there is NO correcting it other than paying the amount again for the youth). **

YQCA Certificates are due in the Extension Office on June 15th by 5:00 pm.

Each York County 4-H member planning on exhibiting items at the 2024 York County Fair will need to fill out a pre-fair entry form. These forms are due to the Extension Office by 5 pm Friday, July 5th.

Please list ANY and ALL items you are considering to bring to the fair as exhibits (you can find the online Fairbook HERE). You are not held to bringing all of your pre-entry items, but you will not be able to exhibit something you did not mark down. Items will be entered and tags printed within the following couple of weeks. Watch Blast and Social media to see when they are ready for pick-up.

Clover Kids do NOT need to write down all items being brought, but if you would like your name in livestock programs, please capture those events down.

Consider participating in the Online Horticulture Identification Contest. This event will be available online for youth to participate in between June 7-21st. There are three parts to this contest:

1. Identify plants by common name from a plant list.

2. Knowledge quiz in the form of true/false or a multiple choice quiz.

3. Judging or placing vegetables or containers of flowers based on condition, quality, uniformity, true-to-type, and size.

To learn more, you can find details at https://4h.unl.edu/online-horticulture-judging-contest

To participate, you can follow this link: http://go.unl.edu/online4hhortcontest

New in 2024! All members who were 8 as of January 1 will be eligible to participate in 4-H in-person events (live animal shows, fashion shows, Premier Communication Event, and contests) at the Nebraska State Fair. For more information, visit 4h.unl.edu/state-fair.

4-H enrollment is open for the 2024 Fair Year! Please remember that you must re-enroll every year; when you do, please double check projects, grade level of youth, and T-SHIRT SIZE (we use this info for fair exhibitor shirts!).

Reminder, if you are planning to participate in Shooting Sports, you must select your discipline area from projects to sign consent forms AND make sure you are listing either York Street (BB, Air, and Archery) or Clay Busters (Trap) as either the primary or secondary club.

**New this year** Project areas have condensed! Instead of 200 project options, there are now 50. If you have a question as to an area a project may have moved into, please contact the Extension Office. (Examples: Breeding beef is now "Beef" and Sketchbook Crossroads is now in "Visual Arts")

Jenny Rees - jrees2@unl.edu

Amanda Hackenkamp - amanda.hackenkamp@unl.edu

Macee Parrish - macee.parrish@unl.edu

Laurie Linabery - llinabery2@unl.edu

Email: york-county@unl.edu
Website: https://york.unl.edu
Location: 2345 North Nebraska Avenue, York, NE, USA
Phone: (402) 362-5508
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlextensionyork/?ref=bookmarks