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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE 2008 4-H Youth Cornbread Cook-off Contest UPCOMING EVENTS February 1
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February 29-March 1
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Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/08-index.htm 2008 4-H YOUTH CORNBREAD COOK-OFF CONTEST Fourth grade 4-H'ers get ready to bake! It is time for 4th graders to enter a recipe in the National 4-H Cornbread Cook-Off sponsored by Martha White and Lodge Cast Iron. Past winning recipes have been unique, creative and of course very tasty. Entries have included cornbread to appeal to everyone's taste from Papaw's Cornbread Pudding to Hot and Spicy Cornbread Casserole. Last year's winning recipe was Cheesy Corny Cornbread prepared by Kinzee Clark from Kingston, Tennessee and her twin sister Linzee Clark placed second with her Broccoli Cheese Cornbread. Enter today by sending in an original recipe. Each recipe must be cooked in Lodge cast iron and prepared with at least one cup of Martha White corn meal or one package of Martha White corn meal mix. Recipes will be judged and ten lucky finalists will be invited to prepare their recipe at the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg, Tennessee on April 26, 2008. The first place winner of the 4-H Cook-off will win $400 cash prize. The 4-H teacher and 4-H agent of the winning student will also each receive $50. The second prize winner takes home $200 and the third place contestant will receive $100. The remaining seven finalists each will win $50 and all ten finalists receive special gifts from Martha White and Lodge Cast Iron. Also, youth traveling more than 100 miles to the competition will receive $100 travel money. Mail your recipes by March 3 to:
For more information and complete contest guidelines, call your 4-H agent or log on to www.nationacornbread.com. Adults can also find out how they can enter on this Web site. Vicki Lofty 2008 4-H JUNE DAIRY MONTH POSTER CONTEST The guidelines are out for the 2008 4-H June Dairy Month Poster Contest sponsored by the American Dairy Association of Tennessee.
Posters are not judged on a regional level. The American Dairy Association of Tennessee will handle all judging. More information can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/dairypromo/dairyposter.htm. Please note the 4-H member submitting the winning poster will receive a $500 savings bond and the county office will receive a $100 cash award. Steve Sutton Junior high and senior 4-H members will have to opportunity to portray their 4-H involvement through their cameras in the 2008 4-H Photo Search activity. A 4-H’er may enter by submitting either a print and the negative, a color slide or a diskette/CD containing the photo in a digital format along with a completed entry form. The information you will need to conduct your county competition is available online:
Each county is eligible to submit up to ten entries for state judging. All entries should relate in some way to 4-H. Entries should be mailed to the state 4-H office by June 15. Steve Sutton DYER COUNTY LIVESTOCK TEAM COMPETES IN NATIONAL WESTERN
After arriving in Denver, the team members traveled to a work out session at Magness Land and Cattle Company. While there, students toured the ranch and evaluated six classes of Limousin heifers and bulls. On Thursday morning, the students took a break from judging and boarded a bus for Winter Park, Colorado. There the students experienced a full day of skiing on some of the best snow in the world. On Friday, the team traveled to the Colorado State University Equine Center in Fort Collins for a morning workout session that involved six classes of swine, cattle and sheep. They then traveled to Brighton, Colorado, and visited Ritchey Show Goats where the team evaluated and judged four classes of Boer and Boer-cross wether dams. On Saturday, the team competed in the judging contest. During the contest, the teams evaluated 10 classes of livestock and gave six sets of oral reasons. There were 24 teams competing in the contest, which included one team from Canada. The Dyer County team placed 11th overall, and were 6th in goats, 7th in cattle and 10th in reasons. Kris Newsom was 18th high individual and John Shultz was 19th high individual in the overall contest. Clint Bain FORMER MISSISSIPPI 4-H’ER IS AMERICAN IDOL FINALIST Mississippi 4-H alumnus Drew Poppelreiter has accepted to go to the next round of American Idol in Hollywood. Mississippi State 4-H Leader Susan Holder says Drew “is a hardworking young man on his family's farm and is a very good singer (country music).” Drew performed at National 4-H Congress, was a 4-H Leadership Team member and received the Bronze Congressional Award medal winner. You can help get him into the finals of American Idol by voting on the following link... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22699627. Click on the link to view results; vote and keep your fingers crossed! Our congratulations to Drew! Steve Sutton JUNIOR HIGH ACADEMIC CONFERENCE OFFERINGS FOR 2008 The 2008 Junior High Academic Conference is scheduled for June 10-13 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This year’s conference will again feature 15 subject matter areas... beef, cat, consumer education, dairy, dairy foods/food-nutrition, dog, garden/home horticulture, horse, line and design, petroleum power, plant science, poultry, sheep, swine and veterinary science. Here are some things to consider as you work with your junior high members in preparation for Academic Conference:
Please do not have members “develop” F305A's when they have done no work to back it up. Cooking pork chops does not make a swine project and pouring a glass of milk does not constitute work in the dairy foods area! You will receive registration information from your regional office in the near future. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. Steve Sutton STATE 4-H HORSE SPEECH/INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM DEMONSTRATION CONTESTS The 2008 Tennessee State 4-H Horse Speech, Individual Demonstration and Team Demonstration Contests will continue as in 2007. The 2007 contests were a great success, and we look forward to a better and bigger event in 2008. The event will be held prior to the Tennessee State 4-H Horse Bowl and Hippology Contest, February 15, at the Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion on the Tennessee Tech University campus. The events will begin at 5:00 p.m. CST. General information:
Bridgett McIntosh THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.
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