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.
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

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