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To enter your exhibits, please visit seward.fairwire.com.

If you need a paper form, click here.

Deadline is July 10th!  Paper forms to the Extension Office by 5 pm, online by 11:59 pm.  For Horticulture, Floriculture, and Poultry entries, you have a bit more time! These will be accepted online until July 31st.

The June 15th deadline has passed for the free County Fair t-shirts. Fortunately, you are still able to purchase a t-shirt at the link below until July 8th.

https://go.unl.edu/dmwx

2024 FAIR 4-H SCHEDULE

 

Saturday, June 15

5:00 p.m.                     Animal ID Sheets Due (beef, sheep, swine, dairy, meat goats, dairy goats) T-shirt orders due

11:59 p.m.                  4-H Enrollment for the year is due.  Sign up at v2.4honline.com       

 

Wednesday, July 10

5:00 p.m.                     Horsemanship level testing due

August 8-11, 2024

Entire Seward County Fair Book

Cover, Index, Schedule, & General Rules & Regulations 

Department A - Citizenship & Civic Education

Department B - Communications & Expressive Arts

Department C - Family & Consumer Science

Sarah Browning, Extension Educator...
Presents at the Seward County Extension Office.

Turfgrasses are one of the best multi-use groundcovers for home, community
and commercial use, and they can be kept healthy and vigorous with lower
amounts of fertilizer and water than are typically used. Learn how to assess your
lawn's need for fertilization and normal turfgrass water requirements, so you can
customize the management of your lawn.

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Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Society award two from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

July 3, 2024
Two with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center were among those awarded at the Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Society (NSWCS) awards night on Wednesday, June 12, in Scottsbluff.

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Nebraska Extension projects look at viability and economics of mint in Panhandle

July 3, 2024

Lincoln, Neb. —

Two recent projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff involved growing peppermint and spearmint, doing it well, and saving money and greenhouse gasses.   

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Tractor Safety course educates next generation of agriculturalists

June 28, 2024

Lincoln, Neb. —

Tractors are part of rural life. They are agricultural equipment that can be spotted in fields, dirt roads, and highways. Typically driven by adults, farm families often hire their teenage children or their neighbors' teens to help with planting, harvesting, and other work. Each Spring across Nebraska, Tractor and Equipment Safety courses are held for 14-and 15-year-olds looking to be employed on farms and ranches.  

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Nebraska Extension projects look at viability and economics of mint in Panhandle

June 26, 2024
Two recent projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff involved growing peppermint and spearmint, doing it well, and saving money and greenhouse gasses.

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