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Guide to Youth Swine Projects


 
Guide to Youth Swine Projects

EMPIRE SWINE YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST
NEW YORK PORK PRODUCERS’ EMPIRE SWINE YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST
 
In an effort to improve the swine youth educational programming at the New York State Fair, the New York Youth Swine Scholarship Contest has combined with the Empire Market Hog Contest to form the New York Pork Producers’ Empire Swine Youth Scholarship Contest. Elements of the contest still include interview, knowledge review, herdsmanship, showmanship, live animal placing, loin & backfat scan, swine judging and records. The Empire Market Hog Book will be used and will be available through a link on the State Fair website or the New York Pork Producers’ website--- www.newyorkpork.org The time schedule for the contest at State Fair will remain the same as before. The New York Pork Producers will collect donations (NYPP, PO Box 124, Fayette NY 13065) and administer the contest with the help of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
 
Please contact Laurie Miller (585)547-3676 or (585)315-6778 or Karen Hargrave (585)534-5382 with questions.

State Fair 2009

 

      

 

Chautauqua County Youth Receives Grand Champion
Swine Scholarship at State Fair 2009
  

  Chautauqua County Youth Receives Grand Champion - Swine Scholarship at State Fair Matt Morrison of Chautauqua County received the Grand Champion Swine Scholarship at the 2009 New York State Fair. He was one of 38 contestants who competed for $4,775 in scholarships in the New York Youth Swine Scholarship Contest. Receiving the Reserve Grand Champion award was Zoe Guttendorf of Cortland County. Third and fourth places went to Courtney Luckman of Niagara County and Denille Pingrey of Wyoming County respectively. Each of the 38 youth who participated was given a scholarship based on the number of points that they accumulated in swine showing, judging, conformation, knowledge, records, interviewing and herdsmanship

The program help youth develop life skills like interviewing, financial record keeping and evaluation while encouraging and expanding interest in agriculture. The donor support comes from within New YorkState as well as Pennsylvania. 

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