COUNTY JUNIOR FAIR These commissions will be deducted from the consignor’s check. LIVESTOCK AUCTION Funds raised from the commission will be used to fund promotional RULES AND REGULATIONS costs (including pictures and a buyer thank you advertisement in the 2012 “Shopping News”), sale expenses and livestock facility improvements. The allocation of these funds rests with the Grant 1. Mail-in entry deadline is Thursday, July 19, 2012. Walk-in entries are County Fair Junior Livestock Auction Committee. Sale checks will Tuesday, July 24 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Wednesday, July 25 be issued at the 2012 Buyer Appreciation Banquet. Interest from from 8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. NO ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED sale checks is used to offset banquet costs. THE LIVESTOCK AFTER THESE DATES. Special entry blanks are available on line AUCTION COMMITTEE WILL PROVIDE BUYERS UP TO at www.grantcountyfair.org ‘2’ TICKETS TO THE BUYER’S APPRECIATION BANQUET FOR EACH LOT PURCHASED AT THE 2. Youth who are eligible to show at the Grant County Junior Fair and LIVESTOCK AUCTION. THE COST OF THESE TICKETS WIL who meet the following requirements are eligible to sell in this auction, BE PRORATED TO THE EXHIBITORS AND DEDUCTED providing they have not sold an animal at another fair sale in Grant FROM THEIR CHECKS. The banquet is scheduled for September County this year. 19, 2012.

a. 4-H members must have completed fourth grade prior to fair. 4-H, f. The champion or reserve champion dairy goat exhibitor will sell a FFA and approved breed group members may not sell at more than block of cheese immediately following the sale of champions. All of two fairs after their scheduled high school graduation. the proceeds will go to the livestock auction committee and the exhibitor does not have to attend an educational seminar or identify b. 4-H, FFA, and approved breed group members may sell an animal the animal. The exhibitor also has the right to sell another animal in related to their project. the auction provided that exhibitor has met all other criteria for sale in the auction. c. Each beef, dairy beef, dairy, goat, sheep, swine, poultry and rabbit exhibitor must have attended at least one of the educational seminars 3. Animals sold in this auction must have been identified and recorded in approved by the Grant County UW-Extension Office. Notification the Grant County Extension Office according to the following of seminar options is found in the 4-H “ECHO.” procedure and deadline dates:

d. Each exhibitor may consign and sell a maximum of one (1) specie of STEERS - (includes dairy and beef) ear tagged and weighed for the livestock (either beef, sheep, swine, goats, poultry, rabbits or dairy sale and Total Evaluation program at a central location on or before (cheese)) and not more than one (1) head of the species they select December 27, 2011. All steers must be castrated and dehorned can be auctioned with the exception of goat cheese (a pen of rabbits before weigh-in. = one head). Animals must be accompanied in the sale ring by the exhibitor, unless special permission is granted by the auction LAMB WETHERS - ear tagged, tattooed and weighed in committee. If an animal presented in the sale ring by someone other accordance to the schedule established by UW-Extension Agents. than the exhibitor without permission from the Livestock Auction Committee, all proceeds from that animal’s sale will be forfeited and GOAT WETHERS - tagged, tattooed and weighed in accordance to returned to the buyer. To get permission to have another exhibitor the schedule established by UW-Extension Agents. show your animal you must provide a written request to the Livestock Auction Committee by 2:00 pm on Friday containing the BARROWS - ear notched, tattooed and weighed on the farm by 4-H reason for the request and the name of the person who will leaders, FFA Advisors, Vo-Tech personnel or Extension Agents in accompany your animal. accordance to the schedule established by UW-Extension Agents.

Exhibitors that have consigned particular specie of livestock and are RABBITS and POULTRY - identified in accordance to the schedule awarded the Champion or Reserve Champion in another specie, in established by the UW-Extension Agents. any weight class, will be given the option of selling the original consignment or the Champion or Reserve Champion. The substitute DAIRY CHEESE - Animals need to be identified through the animal must be properly identified and all relevant requirements Extension Office using the Grant County Junior Fair Livestock met. Under no conditions will exhibitors be permitted to sell more Auction Dairy Registration Form by May 18, 2012. than one lot with the exception of goat cheese. 4. Livestock sold must meet the following requirements: Dairy exhibitors will sell a 10 pound box of assorted cheese. Cheese STEERS - Prime, Choice of Select Plus 1,000 lbs. and over. will be purchased by the Dairy Cheese Sale Committee and funds Lightweight breeds are exempt from this weight restriction. ALL will come from the commission of cheese sold the previous year. STEERS MUST BE WEIGHED AND GRADED LIVE UPON ENTERING THE FAIRGROUNDS (PRIOR TO FEEDING e. Consignors of steers, barrows and lamb wethers will be charged a AND WATERING). Those receiving a grade of select plus or mandatory 6 percent commission on premiums received over market better and a yield grade under 5.0 will be allowed to sell. THE price. The market price for steers, barrows and lambs will be the DECISION OF THE GRADER(S) IS FINAL. In the event that a market price found on the Equity Livestock Exchange website for steer fails to grade select plus or higher in the carcass contests, the the week of the sale. A 10% commission on the total sale price of buyer has the option to pay market value plus $25.00 for the animal. the cheese will be mandatory. 4% will cover the purchase of cheese for the next year and 6% will cover the regular mandatory expenses. LAMB WETHERS - U.S. Prime or U.S. Choice from 90 lbs. to 150 A 3% commission on the total sale price of goat wethers, poultry, lbs. Wethers weighing more than 150 lbs. may be sold, but will only and rabbits will be mandatory. receive payment for 150 lbs.

The Grant County Junior Fair Livestock Auction Committee BARROWS – 220 lbs – 300 lbs. Buyers will pay up to a maximum reserves the right to adjust the commission for anything sold at the of 280 lbs. Barrows outside the weight limit may show in special auction within two weeks after the auction if it is deemed necessary. “show only” class. They will not be eligible to show for champion. Barrows outside the weight limit will not be eligible to sell. In the animal cannot be sold, another qualified animal, owned by the event that an animal is discovered to be cryptroid (testicles inside exhibitor, may be substituted. Anyone wishing to withdraw a steer, the body cavity) upon butchering, the member shall replace it with barrow, wether, goat, rabbit or poultry from the Auction Sale must another animal (either from their own farm or one they purchase). notify the Extension Office by 2:00 p.m., Friday, August 17. It is the buyer’s prerogative to determine how the animal is used. If a consignor GOAT WETHERS - May be sold up to one year of age. wishes to request the reservation of show rights to an animal he or she must notify the Extension Office by 2:00 p.m., Friday, August 17. RABBITS and POULTRY - Meeting the requirements of market Such a request will be announced at the auction, but it is the buyer’s classes will be eligible to sell. It is the seller’s responsibility to option to honor such a request. slaughter and deliver the animal to the buyer. Delivery must take 6. ALL LIVESTOCK SOLD AT THIS AUCTION on Saturday, August place by the date of the Buyers Appreciation Banquet, unless other 18, will not become the possession or the responsibility of the buyer arraignments have been made. Failure to do so will result in until officially released, Sunday, August 19, 2012. forfeiture of the auction proceeds. 7. Buyers reserve the right to advertise at the fair over the stall or pen of the animals they purchase from auction time to the close of the fair. EXHIBITORS OF ANIMALS DEEMED UNFIT FOR HUMAN 8. Youth may not wear hats or other articles of clothing with firm or farm CONSUMPTION BY USDA INSPECTORS WILL FORFEIT THE identification while in the sale ring. TOTAL AUCTION PRICE PAID BY THE BUYER. SHOW, AUCTION, AND CARCASS ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES FOR DAIRY CHEESE - in addition to all sale criteria the following will be used pertaining to youth SHOW PROCEDURE selling blocks of cheese during the Livestock Auction. Auction will be on hoof, and will be open to packers and the public. All consigned steers, barrows, sheep wethers, goat wethers, Animals may only be represented once in a lifetime by the sale of poultry and rabbits must show in the regular Junior Market Classes of the cheese during a Grant County Junior Fair Livestock Auction. Grant County Fair. There will be no special classes for auction animals.

A maximum of 12 youth will be allowed to sell a block of cheese at ALL STEERS MUST BE WEIGHED AND GRADED LIVE the Grant County Junior Fair Livestock Auction. The process UPON ENTERING THE FAIRGROUNDS (PRIOR TO FEEDING outlined below will be followed until 12 lots are selected: AND WATERING) on Thursday, August 16, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. to establish show classes. Wethers will be weighed and ear tagged on a. Grand Champion of each breed listed in the Premium List that is Thursday, August 16, between noon and 2:00 p.m. Barrows will be shown at the Junior Dairy Show at the Grant County Fair. In the weighed and ear tagged on Thursday, August 16, between 9:00 a.m. and event that the Grand Champion does not meet all criteria, the 2:00 p.m. Goat wethers will be weighed and ear tagged on Wednesday, Reserve Grand Champion will be given the opportunity to sell. In August 15, between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. the event that the Grand or Reserve Grand does not meet all criteria the Junior Champion will be given the opportunity to sell. In the Sale time - Saturday, August 18- “Sale of Champions” - 1:00 p.m. event that the Grand, Reserve Grand or Junior Champion does not Champion and Reserve Champion of each species will sell at this time meet all criteria the Reserve Junior Champion will be given the and will be immediately followed by the sale of goat cheese. Rabbits, opportunity to sell. dairy cheese, barrows, poultry, steers, lambs and goats will sell in order according to the ear tag number, with the exception that the first animal b. Junior Champions of any breed which exhibits over 25 animals of each species to sell will be a weight division champion to be during the Junior Dairy Show at the Grant County Fair. In the event determined by lot. Animals not ready to sell when called and miss their that the Junior Champion does not meet all criteria, or has already sale order will sell at the end of the auction for that species. been selected, the Reserve Junior Champion will be given the opportunity to sell. All Livestock Auction consignors must be available to have pictures of livestock taken. Any exhibitor needing an alternate time must discuss this c. The winner of the Junior Fair Dairy Senior and Intermediate with the superintendent at check-in. The exhibitor must be in the picture. Showmanship class. In the event that the winner does not meet If an exhibitor fails to have their picture taken with their animal, an criteria, or has already qualified previously, the second place youth additional 2% per year for each year the picture is missed will be added (and lower if need be) will be allowed to sell cheese. to their commission taken from the exhibitors check. The following schedule will be posted in the appropriate barns. d. A selection of eligible youth and animals will then be used to create a maximum of 12 youth selling lots of cheese. The selection Species Time Location will be made as follows: (1) Starting with age of youth in the senior Swine 7:30 a.m. – 8:20 a.m. Swine Barn showmanship class. Those youth not having sold cheese will be Small Animals 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Livestock Pavilion selected first. (2) Must have shown in the showmanship class. (3) Beef, Dairy, Goats, Sheep 9:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. Livestock Pavilion Must have shown dairy in the last 3 consecutive years. (4) If 12 lots have not been selected, the oldest youth who have met the above Only beef, sheep, swine and goats sold in the Grant County Junior Fair qualifications will be selected by a drawing. Livestock Auction are eligible for competition in the carcass contests held at Bloomington Meats, the Butcher Shop, Weber’s Processing and The Dairy Cheese Sale Committee is responsible for purchasing 10 Belmont Fresh Meats. pound boxes of assorted cheese for the dairy youth selling in the current year. The Dairy Cheese Sale Committee will make sure all lots are available the day of the sale.

5. Consignors must notify the Superintendents at time of weighing on Thursday, August 16 as to which animal of the consigned specie they wish to sell. If the consignor wishes to change the animal consigned for another qualified animal, they must notify the Extension Office prior to 2:00 p.m., Friday, August 17. If for some reason a consigned YOUTH WITH A UNIQUE SITUATION, PROBLEM OR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE AUCTION SHOULD CONTACT BETSY OLSON, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENT AT 723- 2125.A BIG THANK YOU 2012 GRANT COUNTY FAIR MEAT ANIMAL SALE BUYER

The Grant County Junior Livestock Auction Advisory Committee would like to thank the following businesses who generously supported Grant County’s 4-H and FFA members by purchasing their animals at the Grant County Junior Fair Livestock Auction held August 21, 2010.

Buyer’s Name City American Bank & Trust-Wisconsin Cuba City Belmont Sale Barn Belmont Bloomington Livestock Exchange Bloomington Bloomington Meats Bloomington The Butcher Shop, LLC Fennimore Cauffmann’s Slurry Transfer Fennimore Citizens Bank Fennimore Citizens Bank Lancaster Dash Dairy Stitzer DeKalb Seeds Dave Holzinger Lancaster Dr. Jodi Breska Arcadia Economy Feed Mill Bloomington Fennimore FFA Alumni Fennimore Fennimore Livestock Exchange, Inc. Fennimore Fennimore Vet Clinic Fennimore Mike French Burlington Fuller’s Milker Center Lancaster Gardiner Appraisal Co. Mineral Point Gasser’s True Value Lancaster Hickory Ridge Farms Woodman Jim’s Building Center, Inc. Fennimore Just-in Donar Trucking Cuba City Keene Farms Potosi Keeney Motors Mt. Hope Lancaster FFA Alumni Lancaster Leibfried Feed Service, Inc. Potosi Les Mack Chevrolet, Buick, Chrysler. Lancaster Les Mack Ford Lancaster Livingston State Bank Livingston Linnemann Farms, John Linnemann Mt. Hope Majestic View Dairy Lancaster Mound City Bank Platteville People’s State Bank Prairie du Chien Reddy Ag Service, Inc. Stitzer Rick Rech Lancaster Scott Implement Co. Platteville Southwest Veterinary Service Bloomington Steinhart Farms Platteville TRICOR Insurance Lancaster Vorpagel Delivery Service Burlington Weber’s Processing Plant Cuba City Windy Hill Repair/LLC Hazel Green Wolf Construction Lancaster