{"id":63526,"date":"2015-08-31T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63526"},"modified":"2015-08-30T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:21:03","slug":"herkimer-county-4-h-members-busy-at-herkimer-county-fair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63526","title":{"rendered":"Herkimer County 4-H members Busy at Herkimer County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rabbit<\/a>
Rabbit Showmanship winners Reagan Rudd and AnNi Carroll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Herkimer, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) Herkimer County 4-H members completed a very successful week at the Herkimer County Fair.\u00a0 Members participated in animal shows as well as doing demonstrations in the youth building.\u00a0 Rabbits, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep and goats were shown with 4-H members taking top honors in these youth animal shows.<\/p>\n

In the youth building, 4-H members with the help of some dignitaries competed in the \u201cSmoothie Challenge\u201d seeing who could put together the best tasting and most nutritious smoothie with the ingredients that were provided.\u00a0 NYS Senator Jim Seward and Herkimer County Legislator Raymond Johnson participated in the challenge working alongside the 4-H members helping create their masterpieces.\u00a0\u00a0 Other demonstrations were also put on during the week, engaging fairgoers in the world of 4-H and all it has to offer.<\/p>\n

\"Eleonore<\/a>
Eleonore Collins, Kendra Shaver, Natalee Collins, Madesen Spellman, Jordan Upson, Denten Spellman, Seth Donahoe, Legislator Johnson, Natalie Fredericks, Skye Simmons and Korin Mucurio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Herkimer County Fair culminates the 4-H year for many members and is a showcase for them to display the projects they have worked so hard on all year.<\/p>\n

For more information on this and other things that 4-H has to offer, please contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Herkimer County at\u00a0(315) 866-7920\u00a0or jlr34@cornell.edu.<\/p>\n

\"Youth<\/a>
Youth Dairy – Allison Donahoe, Grand Champion and Chad Collins, Reserve Champion Holsteins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Madesen<\/a>
Madesen Spellman 4-H Earn a Calf Champion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Youth<\/a>
Youth Beef \u2013 Judge Janetta Luekenmilk with Sam Donahoe (Champion Steer) and Rebecca Elwood (Champion Female).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Opening<\/a>
Opening Ceremonies – 4-H members Madesen Spellman, Isabella Smith, Rebecca Elwood, Natalee Collins, Eleonore Collins, Abigail Allen Autumn Borek and Kendra Shaver with Gerry Elthorp, Herkimer County Fair Treasurer (center).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Senator<\/a>
Senator Seward, Rebecca Elwood, Starr Wilt, Kendra Shaver, Eleonore and Natalee Collins and Natalie Fredericks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Herkimer, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) Herkimer County 4-H members completed a very successful week at the Herkimer County Fair.\u00a0 Members participated in animal shows as well as doing demonstrations in the youth building.\u00a0 Rabbits, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep and goats were shown with 4-H members taking top honors in these youth animal shows. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}