4-H Crops Project
- Grow a plate of each crop in which you are enrolled
- Attend workshops and complete the Crops Record Sheet as prescribed by the project leader for each
category and turn the record sheet in with the project exhibit at check-in time, even if a member elects not to exhibit at the fair - Classes will be provided as follows:
- Corn - three corn stalks for judging
- one corn stalk with washed roots (no dirt)
- two corn stalks cut off at top of ground
- exhibit corn stalk with roots in white five gallon bucket
- Hay - Make wooden display box out of 1" x 6" material with a 1/4" bottom. Box dimensions should be 20" x 15" x 6". 4-H’er required to bring 1 square bale to judging. Bale will be broken at time of judging. One (1) flake will be exhibited in box.
- Soybeans - five green plants including roots free of soil
- Wheat - one gallon of wheat in clear one gallon container.
- After the Fair, the wheat exhibits become the property of the Boone County 4-H Club, Inc.
- Corn - three corn stalks for judging
- An information sheet will be provided for each crop exhibitor, to complete and place with exhibit. (Hay and wheat omit no width of rows or population planted per acre)
- Variety or hybrid and number
- Date of planting
- Maturity (early, medium, late)
- Kind and amount of fertilizer applied
- Width of rows
- Approximate population planted per acre
Exhibits will be judged in accordance with the following criteria:
- CORN SCORE CARD
- Freedom from nutritional deficiency - 25 points
- Root and stalk development - 25 points
- Freedom from disease and insect damage - 25 points
- General appearance and uniformity - 25 points
- HAY SCORE CARD
- Correct identification - 10 points
- Quality - 20 points
- Freedom from weeds - 20 points
- Color - 10 points
- Moisture - 15 points
- Odor - 15 points
- Neatness of total exhibit - 10 points
- WHEAT SCORE CARD
- Freedom from disease - 20 points
- Freedom from insect damage - 20 points
- Freedom from foreign material - 15 points
- Mechanical damage - 10 points
- Freedom from weed seed - 20 points
- General appearance and uniformity - 15 points
- SOYBEAN SCORE CARD
- Freedom from disease - 15 points
- Freedom from insect damage - 15 points
- Freedom from nutritional deficiency - 15 points
- Pod formation - 15 points
- Nodule formation - 15 points
- General appearance and uniformity - 25 points