North Carolina 4-H Presentation Guidelines: Livestock and Dairy Production

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North Carolina 4-H Presentation Guidelines: Livestock and Dairy Production

Purpose/Objectives

Encourage youth to teach other youth management techniques and educate audiences about issues facing the livestock and dairy industries by using visual aids and/or equipment.
Give youth confidence in their ability to orally present information logically and concisely.
Increase the level of knowledge and expertise of production technologies and issues of the livestock and dairy industries.
Increase members' study skills and ability to use correct English.

Eligibility:

Individuals or teams may compete.

8-10 - 4-H'er must be 8 years old before January 1 of the current year and not have reached their eleventh birthday before January 1 of the current year.
11-13 - 4-H'er must be eleven years old before January 1 of the current year and not have reached their fourteenth birthday before January 1 of the current year.
14-18 - 4-H'er must be fourteen years of age before January 1 of the current year and not have reached their nineteenth birthday before January 1 of the current year.

Suggestions/Helpful Hints:

These presentations should be presented to clubs and associations in the county and surrounding areas to improve the livestock and dairy industries' awareness.

Resources:

N.C. Cooperative Extension Office (in your county)

North Carolina Cattlemen's Association -2228 N Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 ; (919)552-9111

North Carolina Pork Producers Association- 156 Mine Lake Ct., Raleigh, NC 27615; 919/846-9758

National Cattlemen's Beef Association - 5420 S. Quebec St., Greenwood Village, CO 80111; (303)694-0305

Purebred Dairy Cattle Association - c/o Holstein Foundation, PO Box 816, Brattleboro, VT 05302-0816

"Uniform Scorecard for Judging Junior Dairy Fitting and Showmanship Contests" "Dairy Cow Unified Score Card"

NC Pork Industry Handbook - Extension Swine Husbandry - NCSU, Box 7621, Raleigh, NC 27695-7621; 919/515-4000

Sheep Industry Handbook - Sheep Industry Development Program, Inc., 6911 South Yosemite St., Englewood, CO 80112-141; 303/771-3500

Hoard's Dairyman Magazine and Dairy Herd Management Magazine

North Carolina State University

Extension Animal Husbandry Newsletters & Fact Sheets

Extension Dairy Husbandry Newsletter & Fact Sheets

NC Cow-Calf Handbook - NC State University, attn.: Cow-Calf Handbook, Box 7621, Raleigh, NC 27695-7621

"Feeding the Dairy Calf from Birth to Weaning" AG-470 "Feeding Dairy Heifers from Weaning to Calving" AG-471

World Wide Web Sites:

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service - https://www.ces.ncsu.edu

Oklahoma State University - http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/library

Net Vet & Electronic Zoo - http://netvet.wustl.edu

United States Department of Agriculture - http://www.ars.usda.gov

National Pork Producers Council -http://www.nppc.org

Rules/Regulations:

Entrants in this contest may present a demonstration or illustrated talk or combine these two methods in their respective divisions.
Presentations should emphasize the production, management, marketing, industry issues, etc., of the livestock or dairy industries. Any subject or topic related to livestock or dairy that will lend itself to a demonstration that has economic importance would be satisfactory.
The use of visual aids to emphasize major points of a demonstration is encouraged.
8-10, 11-13 presentations must be at least 5 minutes long. 14-18 presentations must be at least 8 minutes long. No presentation should exceed 12 minutes in length. This does not include time allowed for questions.
Areas of consideration:
Entry must be completed in its entirety and meet the deadline date established by the 4-H office to be considered for participation.
The same presentation may be repeated from one year to the next; however, the individual's personal development will be much greater if the presentation is revised and improved.
When the winner cannot attend Congress or participate in the state presentation contest, the district scholarship will be given to the District runner-up if the District runner-up registers and attends Congress for the week and participates in the presentation contest.
Four-H members may continue to compete in a particular presentation category until declared a state winner.
For competition in a presentation category, a "team" may be composed of no more than two individuals.
District winners (8-10, 11-13, 14-18) and runner-ups (11-13 & 14-18 only) are eligible to compete at the State competition.

Awards:

District Winners: Medallion & Monetary awards are listed in the 4-H Awards Handbook.
State Winner: Medallion & Monetary awards are listed in the 4-H Awards Handbook.

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Written By

Greg Daniels Student Assistant