2022 Hamilton County Fair

Hamilton County Fair

July 27- July 31, 2022

Click Here to Order Exhibitor T-shirts

This form is to order your youth's 2022 Hamilton County Fair Exhibitor T-shirt. PLEASE make sure your youth is CURRENTLY enrolled in 4-H at v2.4honline.com AND that your child WILL be competing in a contest or entering a 4-H project in the 2022 Hamilton County Fair before completing this form. Exhibitor t-shirts are sponsored by Hamilton County Farm Bureau and are free to 4-H youth who will be exhibiting at the Hamilton County Fair.

Special Garden Project Information: Rubenza Cosmos

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Exhibit Letter

Project Guide

Preparing Cut Flowers for Exhibits at County Fair and Nebraska State Fair

Online Horticulture Contest: June 3-20

Do you know what it takes to pick the best fruit and vegetables out at the grocery store? Or do you know what judges are looking for when they judge your plants at the county fair? Have you ever wondered, what plant is that!?! We are excited to offer the opportunity to learn these and other important horticulture skills through the Online Horticulture Contest. The contest will be available June 3-20, 2022 at: https://go.unl.edu/online4hhortcontest.

Horticulture judging contest consists of three parts. The first is the identification of plant material. Participants identify the plants by common name from a plant list. Specimens may be alive or preserved plant parts like stems, twigs, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, roots, bulbs, tubers, or plant products.

The second is a knowledge portion, usually in the form of a true/false or multiple-choice quiz. Questions will test the contestant's knowledge of cultural practices for horticultural crops, plant science, pesticides, horticultural careers and other topics related to the production, processing and consumption of horticultural crops.

The last portion is judging or placings. This is where four different plants, plates of vegetables, or containers of flowers are ranked from best to worst based on a set of criteria. Classes are judged on the basis of condition, quality, uniformity, true-to-type, and size.

More information can be found here: https://4h.unl.edu/online-horticulture-judging-contest