MURRAY COUNTY 4-H NEWSLETTER

Punch cards for the Murray County 4-H Eatstand are available for purchase before and during the fair!

Increments of $20, please contact the office if you or your family are interested in purchasing!

📱(507)-836-6927

The federation meeting is always a well-attended event in July. Please help the Murray County 4-H Staff welcome our next year's leadership team of

President: Sophia Nelson

Vice President: Erica Doeden

Secretary: Welsey Hause

Social Media Director: Emma Risacher

Officers at Large: Erin Klein and Royalle Siedschlag

This is a great team of young leaders, and we are excited to have you leading our federation in the upcoming year.

In an effort to create a more streamlined process for our livestock families, we are requesting each family to complete a short survey telling us what your needs are for stalls/pens/cages for your county fair animals. Please complete this survey by Friday, August 2, by 5:00 p.m. In the past, our livestock superintendents have called all the families exhibiting livestock for each species to determine stalling and pen needs; however, using this survey system to get preliminary stalling information makes the process more efficient for our superintendents, so we will continue to use it and ask families to submit their own information online.

This survey will ask the following questions:

• How many stalls, pens, and/or cages your family will need for the animals that you are planning to bring to the county fair
• If you have a Cloverbud in your family, are they bringing their own animal(s) and how much space will each animal need or are they borrowing someone else's animal(s) and whose animal they will be using.
• Saturday livestock departure details: do you need an assigned release time to bring your vehicle/trailer up next to the barns to load out your animals, or do you plan to walk/carry your animals out to your vehicle/trailer in the trailer parking lot?

2024 Murray County Fair 4-H Barn Stalling & Animal Release Survey

We are looking for volunteers to assist in the 4-H Building as well as Heritage Hall to help answer the publics questions, greet people, and make sure the building is kept in order (no projects getting moved around and/ or stolen).

Please check out the link below to sign-up!

Murray County 4-H Exhibit Hall Sign-up

Please view online here or contact the office for a paper copy!

We will allow a first come first serve basis to choose your item, we prefer to not have any repeats. Please fill out the selection on how many bales you will need and which type of bale you would like. If you would like to send a drawing to Kim or Mallory, it really helps the fair board with getting the bales set up. Decorating can begin on Monday, August 12 or Tuesday, August 13 before the fair. Bale decorations need to be removed after the fair by Sunday Aug 18

Mark your calendars for the 2024 Pipestone County Livestock judging contest on August 7 at the Pipestone County Fairgrounds.

Registration begins at 9:00 A.M. with the contest to start at 9:30 A.M. Classes will consist of beef cattle, sheep, swine, and meat goats in addition to three sets of questions and oral reasons.

Cost to register is $5 per youth. All youth completing grades 3 - 13 are eligible to participate. Lunch is provided.

Register by Monday, August 5 at: z.umn.edu/pipestonelivestockcontest If you have any questions, please contact Brandi Schaap at bmraatz@umn.edu.

Please submit one form per team/individual.

4-H Video Workshop is a hybrid program for beginners and experienced filmmakers alike for youth in grade 8+ and up. Youth will meet virtually for three 1-hour sessions to prepare for the in-person, overnight experience on the U of M St. Paul campus and Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Youth create a short narrative video in teams. This program culminates in a film festival with youth films taking center stage during the Minnesota State Fair!

Instructors include University faculty who teach video production alongside professional filmmakers. The in-person portion includes field trips related to filmmaking in the Twin Cities. You’ll be filming with the Minnesota State Fairgrounds as a backdrop and sleeping and eating in the 4-H Building. Generous donors to the 4-H Video project allow the cost to be kept low for this program.

• Dates: online sessions July 15, 22, 29
• In person: overnight August 6-8
• Cost: $100 (Scholarships may be available from your local county 4-H program). If additional scholarship is needed due to financial constraints, please contact steve020@umn.edu to discuss.

The Minnesota 4-H Youth Development Cloverbud policy creates a uniform set of rules for participation to maintain developmental appropriateness and safety for our youngest 4-H members. A rule related to Cloverbuds and animals has been updated.

When Cloverbuds and animals are together at a 4-H program, families may now choose one of two acceptable ways to guide and monitor involvement in non-mounted activities:

1. The responsible person is in control of the animal with the Cloverbud at their side.

2. The Cloverbud is in control of the animal with the responsible person at their side to assist or take control of the animal when needed or as directed by staff, volunteers, or show managers.

In the horse project, the second option does not apply to mounted activities. When a Cloverbud is mounted on a horse, the horse must always have a lead line and be under the control of the responsible person.

Cloverbud families may choose either option. Either way, Cloverbud exhibitions will continue to be non-competitive. Complete Cloverbud rules are found in the Cloverbud information sheet.

Please help spread the word about this rule change to Cloverbud families involved in your local programs!

Visit the University of Minnesota Extension website to check out their listing of scholarships!

2024 High School graduates that have been a Murray County 4-H member for at least four years are eligible to apply. Applications must be submitted by October 1, 2024. Scholarships will be awarded at the Fall Annual Awards Banquet.

Please click here to apply.

The Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association is offering two $500 scholarships for postsecondary students.

Please see the links below to apply!

2024 Reid Mason Scholarship

2024 Dennis Bottem Scholarship

Please complete your re-enrollment for the 2023-2024 year, visit 4-Honline to complete this task. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to the Extension staff!

Need activity ideas for your 4-H club? Check out our Youth Development Curriculum Library for fun, educational lesson and activity resources designed for youth workers, 4-H volunteers, and youth themselves! 86 resources and counting! More content is added every month. Current categories: Animals and livestock, civic engagement and leadership, Cloverbuds (K-2), environment and earth science, expressive arts and communication, family and consumer science, gardening and agriculture, healthy living, icebreakers, games, and reflection activities, including youth of all abilities, independent learning, outdoor adventures, STEM, and themed 4-H club agenda samples. If you have specific content you’d like to see, contact Jessica Russo at pier0239@umn.edu.

Please take a moment to download or print the 2023 - 2024 Murray County 4-H calendar.

Fair will be here before you know it!

Official dates are: August 14 - 17.

Ambassadors - please be on the lookout for information from Kim regarding helping at the Murray County Fair August 14 - 17!

Amber Martin and Karlie Heezen are our newest Murray County 4-H volunteers!

Amber and Karlie will be the coaches for our SWIM team this summer.

Thank you for your willingness to give back!

Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development

University of Minnesota Extension, Murray County

📍2848 BROADWAY AVE ☎️(507)-836-1144 ✉️hausek@umn.edu

SLAYTON, MN 56172

Administrative Assistant, Murray County Extension

📍2848 Broadway Ave ☎️ 507-836-6927 ✉ carl5049@umn.edu

Slayton, MN 56172

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