Kaufman County Shooting Sports Project

The Kaufman County 4-H Shooting Sports Project is in need of Texas 4-H Ceritified Coaches in Archery, Pistol, Shotgun, and Rifle in order to offer proper supervsion for our youth.

All adults wishing to participate in a coach training must be certified adult volunteers through 4-H Connect and through the Youth Protection Standards Program (YPS). The YPS process must take place through the Kaufman County AgriLife Extension Office and may take a few weeks. If a voluteer is currently certified by a nationwide background check through another entity, this YPS process may be skipped by disclosing the proper credentials and documentation.

The next training is offered in Victoria, Texas

• October 13-14, 2012
• Registration Opens: September 3, 2012
• Registration Closes: September 28, 2012

Please consider this opportunity to serve our Kaufman County youth.

Thank you,
Shalena F. Reese, Texas 4-H Certified Archery and Rifle Coach
 

Livestock Judging Practice Starting up

 The Livestock Judging Team / Beef Quiz Bowl will be having their first meeting Tuesday Sept. 4 at 7PM. This will be an information meeting and sign up at the County Extension Office 2471 N State Highway 34
Kaufman, TX 75142.
 This is important for all interested including parents. I will have dates and we will discuss where we will be competing, money, required practices and other important information.
 Our regularly scheduled practice is the 3rd Thursday of each month and other barn trips to be scheduled. If you are interested and cannot attend please contact the extension office. 

5th Annual Beef Blow Out Show

State Fair of Texas Agriculture Awareness Day

Canned Food Drive

•  8:00 AM - Gate 11 - FOOD DRIVE DROP OFF
  -Drop off behind police stand - middle of parking lot
  -NOTE: Clubs/Chapters bringing 100 pounds of food (or more) will receive a commemorative gift for each attendee (while supplies last)
  
  
• 12:00 PM - Hall of State Stage - AWARD PRESENTATION

 AgriQuest

8:00 AM - REGISTRATION - Gate 11 Adjacent to Food Drive
- Club/Chapter Registration
- AgriQuest Packet pickup

11:15 AM - AgriQuest Packet Turn In - Hall of State Stage
- Register for Individual Prize Drawings w/completed packet turn in

 

2nd Annual Cattle Fitting and Showing Clinic

Texas 4-H Night at the Ballpark - Deadline COMING!!

JUST 2 MORE DAYS TO ORDER YOUR TICKETS.   

All Lexus Club Terrace seats are SOLD OUT!   

The game is scheduled for September 15th at 7pm, the Texas Rangers v Seattle Mariners.   Counties will earn $2.85/ticket sold.  Commemorative t-shirts will be offered again this year, sponsored by the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance.  Order deadline is August 31st.   

As of this morning just over 600 tickets were ordered under the 4-H special program.  Last year we almost sold 1,000, so if you haven't bought your tickets yet, do so soon.  Help us to hit the 1,000 plus mark this year.   A person does not have to be a member of 4-H to take advantage of these ticket deals, by purchasing through this program they would be supporting your local county 4-H.

Download Ticket Order Form

Deadline to Order August 31, 2012

MAIL COMPLETED ORDER FORM AND PAYMENT TO: Texas Rangers, Attn: 4-H, 1000 Ballpark Way, Ste. 400, Arlington, TX 76011, FAX ORDER TO 817-273-5180, CALL 817-273-5257, OR EMAIL dengland@texasrangers.com. 

All orders are subject to a $3 service charge. Tickets are subject to availability. *Shirts will be available for pick up one hour prior
to first pitch through the end of the second inning at the on the Center Field Concourse, behind the visiting bullpen.

Texas 4-H Night at the Ballpark t-shirts are sponsored by Texas Farm Bureau Insurance.  

2012 4-H Achievment Banquet

 

The Kaufman County 4-H program ended another successful year on Friday night, August 11th at the Annual 4-H Awards Reception at the Poetry Community Christian School in Poetry, Texas.

4-H members, leaders and supporters were recognized for their efforts in the 4-H program over the last year at this event.28 4-H members were recognized for their individual project work and for participating at county, district, state and national events.  18 4-H members were recognized for completion of the 4-H Program Record Books.

 

Individual honors were bestowed on the following:

Bronze Star – Dylan Heathcock, Abby Celella, Hannah Celella, Juliann Reese, Dakota Heathcock, Katlin Lumpkin

Silver Star – Quentin Gravelle, Jacob Long

Rookie of the Year – Junior –Hailey Knight

Rookie of the Year – Intermediate – Juliann Reese

Leadership Award – Jacob Long and Kaitlyn Pagel

Danforth I Dare You Award – Jacob Long

Gold Star – Meagan Gravelle, and Jacob Long

4-H Leaders were recognized for their tireless efforts with the program with their years of service certificates.

The Most Supportive Parent for support to the council went to Scott Long of Forney and Leader on the Town for support to their community and club went to Vicki Stecher of the County Liners 4-H Club.

 

The Outstanding Leader of the Year award went to Ruminants Unlimited Goat and Lamb club – Mr. David Thompson and Horse Club Leader – Mrs. Laurie Celella.

Each year our program singles out one person or business that has gone above and beyond in their support of our 4-H program and our membership. This award is known as the Friend of 4-H. This years recipient is Kaufman County Farm Bureau Board.

The Kaufman County 4-H Council Scholarship recipient for 2012 went to Cassie Boyd.
Texas Senator Bob Deuell and House Representative Lance Gooden assisted in presenting awards to the 4-H'ers and leaders.

 

 Pictures:

IMG_0072 - Junior Rookie of the Year award - Hailey KnightIMG_0074 - Intermediate Rookie of the Year award - Juliann Reese
IMG_0099 - Jacob Long award recipient for Silver Award, Leadership Award, Gold Star and I Dare You with Texas Senator Bob Deuell presenting.
IMG_0097 - Gold Star award recipient Meagn Gravelle with Texas Senator Bob Deuell presenting.
IMG_0104 - Scholarship Award Recipient - Cassie Boyd with Texas Senator Bob Deuell presenting the scholarship.

4-H Dairy Goat Reminder

Reminder:  4-H Dairy Goat Club meeting-first for the 2012-2013 year.  

Date: Tuesday, August 21

Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Kaufman County Extension Office

Details: We will spend a little time getting to know each other, look at the events planned for each meeting, discuss and finalize paperwork for the State Fair of Texas shows (deadline Sept. 1), introduce the new 4-H year, and look at other upcoming shows and clinics. 

Bring: Goat stories-even goats in the city have skills!

If you have or want to learn more about dairy goats, come join us.  We have a fun year planned with some new and exciting events.  If you have any questions please let me know.

James Craft

2012-2013 Stock Show Update reports

Every year the stock shows meet with the FFA Advisors and 4-H Agents to give their updates for the upcoming shows.  Here is a short list of some of the major changes.  You can get a PDF version of each of the stock shows (State Fair of Texas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Angelo, Houston, and Austin).  If you would like a copy go to the Kaufman County website to get the updates or email Carrie Sharp, CEA-4-H (cl-sharp@tamu.edu) to have them sent to you.

Another note is you may want to look closely at the show dates for your projects.  Several dates have moved!!! 

State Fair of Texas
~Livestock Auction  - Exhibitor MUST walk the Animal Through!!! No substitutes!!
~Rabbit shows have flipped flopped weekends. Check Dates on the website.
~The Unloading process and parking has changed.  There is a new parking lot.  The Junior Show Parking Pass will come with a complimentary gate pass.  They WILL be checking for all passes for passengers as you drive through that gate.

Fort Worth Livestock Show website
Update PDF
~Added a Ag Mechanics Show
~Reminder of the Substitute Exhibitor Rule - you can not substitute for a school event or ineligibility in school.
~There are 700 Additional tieouts added for the show. So the parking and entry into the show has TOTALLY changed.  Please refer to the website for the neat changes to the grounds.

San Antonio Junior Livestock Show
Update PDF
~Keeping a 2 day format for the Junior Heifer show
~Market Steers pay close attention to the bolded rule on tail switch definition.

San Angelo Junior Livestock Show
Update PDF 
~Committing to a third weekend (IMPORTANT!! the junior heifer show and junior breeding swine moved to this first weekend!! check the dates!!)
~New market Barrow weight classes.

Houston Junior Livestock Show
~Market Steers pay close attention to the bolded rule on tail switch definition.

Star of Texas - Austin
~added money for the Livestock Auction, and breed champions

Remember validation dates and ownership deadline dates.

For State Fair of Texas - Breeding Animals June 1st and Market Animals had to be validated by Tagging in June (Market Steers and Market Lambs & Goats) and July (Market Swine)

For Spring Majors - Breeding Animals needed to be owned by November 1st.  Market Animals (Market Goats, Swine, and Lambs) are validated in October.  You need to have bought a tag for each animal that you want to show for these shows.

Any Questions... Contest Carrie Sharp, CEA-4-H  (cl-sharp@tamu.edu).

What is 4-H Day - September 8th

The 4-H Council and the project Coalitions will be hosting a "What Is 4-H?" day on September 8th at the Kaufman County 4-H Fair Grounds from 2 - 5 pm for new families to 4-H and the public to come in and see all that 4-H has to offer.

What is needed? 

The event is needing help with the major projects that is offered in the Kaufman County 4-H Program.  Each "Station" will setup examples of the animals, equipment, and supplies that it takes to make the project  a success.  Be able to answer questions on what is the time dedication, etc for the member and the family.

~Livestock (Horse, Beef, Swine, Goats, Dairy Goats, Lambs, etc)
~Small Animals (Poultry, Rabbits)

~Photography
~Food & Nutrition
~Clothing & Textiles
~Dog Obediance
~Science & Technology
~Wildlife & Conservation
~Horticulture
~ and more.

If you would like to help with the day in one of the stations please contact your club manager or the Kaufman County 4-H Office to give ideas or where you can help.  Be a great day for the Teen Leaders to get out and speak about their projects and show off what they know and love about their projects.

After the event that 4-H Council has planned a "Get Together" for all Kaufman County 4-H'ers from 5-7 pm with hot dogs and refreshments.

Welcome to Kaufman County 4-H!!

Welcome to the Kaufman County 4-H family the new club for the community of Crandall.  Crandall 4-H will have their first meeting on September 11th and continue through on the second Tuesday each month. 

Look forward to seeing new 4-Her's coming into the program to have fun!!  Club Manager is Jennifer Hiser.  For more information about the club please contact the Kaufman County 4-H Office (972-932-9069)

Congratulations!! To the State Recordbook Kids!!

Congratulations to Meagan Gravelle and Katlin Lumpkin!!! Through intense judging and competing in some of the biggest record book categories in the state competition both young ladies placed 5th in the state competition.  Congrats Girls on job well done.

NEW!! County Livestock Show Important dates to know

The date for the Kaufman County Junior Livestock show is set!!  The 2013 County Fair is March 26-30, 2013.  

Please make this note in your calendars.  In addition, County Steer and Commercial Heifer Validation Night is October 30, 2012, at the Risinger Vet Clinic in Terrell.

Market goats, Market Lambs, and Market Swine will be validated on January 12th, 2013 at the Kaufman County Fair Grounds in Kaufman from 8 am to 10 am.

All other County fair entries for Kaufman County 4-H'ers (Meat Pens, Broiler orders, Ag Mech Projects, Heifers, Dairy Goats, etc) will be due on January 8, 2013 in the County Extension Office by 5 pm.  Kaufman County 4-H'ers that need to remember that to get a school release you need to turn in their entries to the county extension office for me (the 4-H agent) to sign your entry to make it valid for the county fair.

Creative Talent entries will be due later in February.

For graduating seniors go to the KCJLS.COM website in November to get the KCJLS scholarship application.  This will be due to the County Extension Office by January 8, 2013.

Fall TSC Paper Clover starts September 19th!!

The Fall 2012 Tractor Supply Co. Paper Clover promotion is coming! Fall Paper Clover will launch on September 19th and run through September 30th. Reach out to our local TSC in Terrell.

What is the 4-H Tractor Supply Company (TSC) Paper Clover Promotion?
4-H Paper Clovers are paper representations of the 4-H clover that are sold for $1 or more by Tractor Supply
Company store clerks and prominently displayed in-store. Retailers who partner with National 4-H Council and
run a Paper Clover Promotion in their stores do so because the promotion:
• Drives store traffic
• Helps them develop relationships with 4-H groups, families, and alumni
• Supports all 4-H programming at the local level
• Is a turn-key, customer-driven fundraising program
• Low cost to retailer, big impact

Do counties need to do anything to participate in this promotion?
Spread the word! This promotion is being used by TSC to gauge whether or not they want to progress to doing
larger and more frequent promotions and fundraising initiatives in all of their 44 states. They are most
interested in seeing the 4-H’ers and their families promote the event so that more funds are raised in their
stores and go back to 4-H’ers in their communities. They expect, where possible, for 4-H volunteers, staff, and
or 4-H’ers to reach out their store managers to see if there is any additional in-store events that they can attend
during the duration of the promotion to help draw more traffic to their stores. For example, a 4-H club or a
group of 4-H’ers can arrange to table at their local TSC store for a few hours on one weekend of the promotion.
Ideas such as hosting small-scale demonstrations in TSC stores will be shared in the upcoming conference calls.
The more promotion and publicity counties give the 4-H TSC Paper Clover promotion, the more funds that will
be raised for your local 4-H!
 

Tractor Supply Co. has entered into an official partnership with the National 4-H Council as your National 4-H Project Headquarters.

This means that Tractor Supply will help raise money for our county 4-H programs, as with the Paper Clover Campaign, a national in-store fundraiser that benefits state and local 4-H programming. Local clubs and 4-H members can also reap rewards from Tractor Supply with the new TSC Clover Card.

By registering for a card, you'll get special notifications from TSC and 4-H and access to special deals at TSC only available to TSC Clover Card holders. Best of all, each time you use your card, your club has a chance to win additional funding from TSC.

"Many of our stores have been involved with 4-H clubs for years. Now, Tractor Supply is proud to have an official chain wide relationship with 4-H," said Jim Wright, Tractor Supply Co. Chairman and CEO. "For us, this is an outstanding way to support our current and future customers and future team members, and it's a way to give back to the 900-plus unique communities we serve."

"TSC is excited..... and invites your club to get active with your local store if not already.

 Talk with your store manager about what activities and partnership opportunities exist in your area.

Call the extension office to see what your 4-H Club can do to promote this great opportunity and 4-H!!!  

Texas Rangers 4-H Night at the Ballpark

"Texas Rangers 4-H Night at the Ballpark"  The game is scheduled for September 15th at 7pm.  The game is the Texas Rangers v Seattle Mariners.   Counties will earn $2.85/ticket sold.  Commemorative t-shirts will be offered again this year, sponsored by the Texas Farm Bureau.  Order deadline is August 31st.  Last year we came close to 1,000 tickets sold for the event.  Help us spread the word so we can hit the 1,000 plus mark this year.   This should be an exciting game, into the pennant race at this time.   A person does not have to be a member of 4-H to take advantage of these ticket deals, by purchasing through this program they would be supporting your local county 4-H.

Download Ticket Order Form

Deadline to Order August 31, 2012

MAIL COMPLETED ORDER FORM AND PAYMENT TO: Texas Rangers, Attn: 4-H, 1000 Ballpark Way, Ste. 400, Arlington, TX 76011, FAX ORDER TO 817-273-5180, CALL 817-273-5257, OR EMAIL dengland@texasrangers.com. 

All orders are subject to a $3 service charge. Tickets are subject to availability. *Shirts will be available for pick up one hour prior
to first pitch through the end of the second inning at the on the Center Field Concourse, behind the visiting bullpen.

Texas 4-H Night at the Ballpark t-shirts are sponsored by Texas Farm Bureau