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Empire Swine Youth Scholarship Rules

 
ESYS Download Central

Following in the Hawaiian theme this year we are offering you a FREE t-shirt with this year’s theme logo (the luau pua’a ). See Details Below....

Click to Download - Presentation Evaluation Form.doc

Click to Download - Project Record.doc

 Click to Download - ESYS Letter Youth.doc

Click to Download - ESYS Contest.doc

FREE t-shirt

 

And following in the Hawaiian theme this year we are offering you a FREE t-shirt with this year’s theme logo (the luau pua’a ). On the back it will advertise all of the ESYS 2010 donors. To get a shirt in your size you MUST email me your name and shirt size by July 6th.   Your blue shirt will be waiting for you at the Fair in August.  If I do not hear from you by July 6th, we will have some shirts available at the Fair but you may not get the size that you would like. I will be watching for your emails…..my address in willow14005@yahoo.com and my phone 585-315-6778.

 
So keep your pua’as hu’i hu’i (pigs cool) in this wela (hot) weather and get ready for a great time at the 2011 New York State Fair !
 

 

FREE T SHIRT OFFER

Email Laurie Miller @ willow14005@yahoo.com by July 6th with your name and t-shirt size.

 For example: Nate Summers--Youth Medium

Note: All sizes are generous.

SIZES: Youth     Small (6-8)      Medium (10-12)     Large (14-16)

Adult       Small        Medium       Large       X Large        2 XL

 

Youth Swine Scholarship
EMPIRE SWINE YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP
 

This contest is a combination of the Empire Market Hog and Youth Swine Scholarship contests, and is run by the New York Pork Producers. It is open to all youth market hog exhibitors. Division A is for youth who are exhibiting their hog at the New York State Fair. Division B is a non-showing contest. Those youth will submit a record on a market hog they have raised, participate in the interviews, and take the knowledge review. For more information call Laurie Miller at (585)547-3676 or cell (585)315-6778 or call Karen Hargrave at (585)534-5382. Recommended references are the New York Empire Market Hog book available at: http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/4H/swine/index.html and the Ohio State University Swine Resource Book available from most Cornell Cooperative Extension offices and from Ohio State University.

 Anyone wishing to donate and support these ambitious youth, who are learning our industry, may do so by sending their donation to the New York Pork Producers with a note labeling the donation for the ESYS.  All donations received go directly back to the youth in merchandise prizes or in cash awards.  Every youth receives money according to the points earned in the contest.  Donations received by August 1 will have the donor's name posted at New York State Fair.

State Fair 2010

Niagara County Youth Reves Grand Champion
Swine Scholarship at State Fair

Courtney Luckman of Niagara County received the Grand Champion Swine Scholarship at the 2010 New York State Fair. She was one of 36 contestants who competed for over $5000 in scholarships in the New York Pork Producers' Empire Swine Youth Scholarship Contest. Receiving the Reserve Grand Champion award was Stephen Quanz of Steuben County. Third and fourth places went to Denille Pingrey of Wyoming County and Zoe Guttendorf of Courtland County respectively. Each of the 36 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. This new contest is actually a combination of Cornell Cooperative Extension's 4-H Empire Market Hog Program and the New York Youth Swine Scholarship Program contests. The objective of the new contest is the same as the two previous ones: to help youth develop life skills like interviewing, financial record keeping and evaluation while encouraging and expanding interest in agriculture. The donor support comes from across New York State and the North East. Gold donors were Farm Credit's Northeast Ag Enhancement Program and The Northeast Agricultural Education Foundation. Silver donors included The New York State Fair, Willow Ridge Farms and New York Pork Producers. Many other businesses and individuals also contributed.

 

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.

 
Guide to Youth Swine Projects

 
   
 
 
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