October 2015 Tennessee 4-H 865-974-2128 Tennessee 4-H Ideas Volume 15 : Issue 42 Important Dates October 24 Senior High Archery, Air Rifle and Shotgun Competition - Columbia STATE OUTDOOR MEAT COOKERY WINNERS ANNOUNCED Nine teams participated in the Outdoor Meat Cookery Contest at State 4-H Judging Day, October 17. The event was held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Results are as follows: October 25-29 NAE4-HA Conference Portland, OR November 27-Dec 1 National 4-H Congress Atlanta, GA Team Placings 1. Wilson County 2. Sumner County 3. Rutherford County 4. Morgan County (B) 5. Sullivan County 6. Houston County (A) 7. Morgan County (A) 8. Houston County (B) 9. Montgomery County Beef Allison Parker, Sumner County Lamb Jarrett Folkerts, Wilson County Pork Kaylee Headden, Morgan County (B) Poultry Ahmon Watkins, Rutherford County The contestants were scored on their safety and efficiency; appearance; imagination and recipe; and palatability and attractiveness of the final product. Each member of the winning team will receive a $50 cash award. Members of the winning Wilson County team included Aaron England, Jarrett Folkerts, Alexandria Dies and Cody Warren. They were coached by 4-H Extension agent Johnny Barnes.The top two contestants in the poultry division will participate in the National 4-H Poultry and Egg Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in mid-november. Ahmon Watkins of Rutherford County will represent Tennessee in the National 4-H Chicken Barbecue Contest, and Wylie Randall of Montgomery County will be our contestant in the National 4-H Turkey Barbecue Contest.
STATE FALL JUDGING DAY RESULTS Fall judging day was held on October 18, 2014, at the University of Tennessee agriculture campus in Knoxville. Twentyeight teams representing 25 counties gathered to compete in consumer decision making, dairy products, forestry and poultry judging. Results are as follows. Consumer Decision Making 1. Wilson County 2. Knox County 3. Campbell County 4. Hardeman County 5. Madison County 6. Bedford County 7. Benton County 8. Crockett County 9. Robertson County 1. Meredith Rippy, Campbell County 2. Mary Beth Nehls, Knox County 3. Kaitlyn Nelson, Campbell County 4. Holdon Guy, Wilson County The Wilson County consumer decision making judging team will participate in the Western National 4-H Roundup in Denver, Colorado, in January 2016. Team members included Holdon Guy, Andrew Franklin, LeAnna Tanner and Nancy Temple. The team was coached by Extension Agent Amanda Woody and 4-H volunteer Karen Franklin. Dairy Products 1. Morgan County 2. Hickman County 3. Robertson County 1. Clayton Price, Morgan County 2. Carley Baker, Hickman County 3. Abigail Loveless, Hickman County 4. Jamiee Headden, Morgan County The MorganCounty dairy products team will go on an educational tour. Team members included Bree Davis, Clayton Price, Caleb Ritter and Jamiee Headden. They were coached by 4-H volunteer leader Julie Crowe. Forestry 1. Shelby County 2. Putnam County 3. Claiborne County 4. McNairy County 5. Sequatchie County (A) 6. Carter County 7. Williamson County 8. Knox County 9. Hardin County 10. Hancock County 11. Sequatchie County (B) 12. Dyer County 1. David Crenshaw, Shelby County 1. Shelley Griffith, Sequatchie County 3. Emily Welte, Putnam County 4. Allison Rison, Claiborne County The Shelby County forestry judging team will participate in the National 4-H Forestry Invitational at Jackson s Mill State 4-H Center in near Weston, West Virginia next summer. Team members included Kyle Weiner, Anna Holt and David Crenshaw. The team was coached by 4-H volunteer Weida Ringley. Poultry 1. Sumner County 2. Lincoln County 3. Knox County 4. McMinn County (overall) 1. Erin Moore, Lincoln County 2. Rachel Millard, Knox County 3. Henry Hinton, Sumner County 4. Ethan Garrison, Sumner County Sumner County's Ethan Garrison placed first in both production and market products. The Sumner County poultry judging team will participate in the National 4-H Poultry Judging Contest in Louisville, Kentucky in November.. Team members included Henry Hinton, Aleise Hill, Hunter Crowson and Ethan Garrison. Team coach was Extension Agent Clint Parker.
3 Curriculum Corner- Jennifer Richards On-going: TODAY is the last day to complete the Curriculum Needs Assessment survey. If you would like to have input in this process, please complete the survey TODAY! Link: https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/se/?sid=sv_6dr5hj96plxvno5 If you intend to survey your county's volunteers, please do so before November 1. If you would like to survey your volunteers and do not already have the survey information, please email me (jennifer.richards@utk.edu). Content review of activity sheets and project books has begun. 4-H Lesson Plans currently available on SharePoint are being cataloged and reviewed. Upcoming: Visits with Specialists in each region. Developing a protocol for peer-review and dissemination of agent development materials. County and Event visits. Curriculum Tip: Experiential Learning is foundational to the mission of 4-H. In step 1 of the 5 step model for experiential learning, the focus is on creating and experience for youth. These experiences can be large and elaborate, like a field trip to the Mississippi River to examine soil samples, or small events that you can do in club meetings in 15 minutes or less. The important element is to allow students to touch, see, feel, hear, smell the experience so they engage their senses in such a way as to create a memory of the experience. Here is an example of an experience from an environmental science 4-H lesson plan (Dig In! W292-C) that you could do in a single club meeting: You can find the full 4-H lesson plan for this activity here: https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/documents/w292-c.pdf. Next week we will look more closely at Step 2: Share.
4 Certify Swine Exhibitors for Youth Pork Quality Assurance Plus Now that your entries are submitted, the next step is to Youth Pork Quality Assurance Plus certify your market hog exhibitors for the State Market Hog Show. The Youth Pork Quality Assurance Plus program has two major educational components: Food Safety and Animal Well Being. Exhibitors for the TN Market Hog Show need to be certified by January 4, 2016. Youth can receive training by two methods; 1) a traditional face to face training with a certified Youth PQA Plus training advisor or 2) via online training. For the agents and ag teachers that are certified as a Youth Pork Quality Assurance Plus advisor, you should be ready to go with the training for the youth that need to be certified or recertified. For online training, use the following link: http://www.pork.org/youth-pqa-plus/. Youth 8-11 years of age (Beginner) must recertify annually by attending an approved Youth PQA Plus education program. Exhibitors 12-14 years of age (Intermediate) and 15-19 years of age (Advanced) can certify/recertify for one year by attending an approved Youth PQA Plus education program OR can certify by completing and passing and examination at the appropriate age level. To certify by examination, a minimum of 70 percent of questions must be correctly answered. Certificates by examination are not to exceed three years. Once certified by examination, the youth is not required to recertify in Youth PQA Plus until the next age level is reached. However, certification by examination is not to exceed three years. For example: In the Advanced group, a 15-year old who passes an examination would need to recertify after a period of three years, despite not having reached another age level. When youth reach the next age level or exceed the certification period of three years, they can either attend a Youth PQA Plus training class or take the appropriate examination at their new age level. Certification by examination is valid for a minimum of one year. but will not exceed three years. If you have any questions about your exhibitors' certification, just contact Dr. Dwight Loveday. For the agents that would like to certify as an YPQA Plus Advisor, please send me your name, address, phone, email and date of birth. At that time I will submit the information to the National Pork Board and they will enter your name in the database and provide you the instructions for completing training for certification. After completing the training and examination, you will be qualified to teach, certify (enter youth information) and print certification certificates for the youth you certified. Your certification is good for three years. If you have any questions, please contact Dwight Loveday (hloveday@utk.edu or 865-974-7344).
4-H LAND JUDGING COMPETITION Want to know more about soil texture and water holding capacity? Perhaps you are interested in potential crop yields for a given site? Tennessee 4-H members who participate in state land judging learn all of this and then some. On October 19, twelve 4-H land judging teams, combined with 12 FFA teams, participated in the state contest at the UT AgResearch and Education Center in Greeneville. The state winning team, announced at the awards banquet at the Clyde Austin 4-H Center in Greeneville, was Rutherford County (Taylor Turnage, Morgan Cardiff, Emily Lynch and Kayla Stiles, along with their coach Bruce Haley). Pictured with the winning team is State 4-H Council Senior Representative Christian Dalton, Hancock County. Special thanks to Dr. Hugh Savoy (Biosystems Engineering department) for facilitating the contest and the Tennessee Farmers Insurance Companies for providing support for the event. Congratulations to all teams participating and best of luck to the Rutherford and Wilson county teams in the national event. Team placings 1. Rutherford County 2. Wilson County 3. Bedford County 4. Roane County (B) 5. Grainger County 6. Roane County (A) 7. McNairy County (A) 8. McNairy County (B) 9. Macon County 10. Claiborne County 11. Carroll County (B) 12. Carroll County (A) 1. Morgan Cardiff 2. Kayla Stiles 3. Bo Watson 4. Brian McCarty 5. Matthew Parker --Justin Crowe
AG LITERACY WEEK The Tennessee Beef Industry Council invites 4-Hers across the state to join them in celebrating Ag Literacy Week (November 15 th -21 st ) in Tennessee! The purpose of Tennessee Agriculture Literacy Week is to increase the agricultural knowledge of Tennessee students. This will be accomplished by agriculturalists across Tennessee reading agriculturally themed books to grade school students and then sharing information about the role a farmer plays in our society. The Tennessee Beef Council has Beef Themed books available through the Cowboy in the Classroom program. Each Extension office received the Beef Books last year, however, if additional books are needed the TBIC is happy to provide those. TBIC also offers educational materials for students in grades K-6. Please make arrangements to read to a class in your area! Contact Janna Sullivan at the Tennessee Beef Council (jsullivan@beefup.org or 615-896-5811) at least 10 days prior to school visit to allow ample time for materials to be shipped. Thanks for your support of Ag Literacy Week! --Janna Sullivan TN Beef Council 4-H/LODGE CAST IRON SKILLETS Tennessee 4-H is excited to announce that our long awaited skillets have arrived. These skillets, special cast with the 4-H clover, are currently being distributed to counties that ordered them. They will be used for speaker and donor gifts and awards. We are pleased with the skillets and can t wait to see them being used/displayed across the state. --Justin Crowe