Nebraska 4-H is seeking teens interested in leading and facilitating this year’s Ag Innovators Experience! 3 State Teen Leaders will be selected to attend the Ag Innovators Experience Training in Columbus, Ohio. If selected to be a teen on the State Leadership Team for Nebraska, youth will be expected to attend the Ag Innovators Experience Training in Columbus, Ohio February 3rd – 5th. They will be traveling with two Nebraska Extension Educators & travel expenses will be covered. The team will bring the information back to Nebraska to train 20+ other teen leaders across the state to reach youth in their local communities with the Ag Innovators Experience activities. This training will be in March.
An additional 20+ teen facilitators will be selected to deliver this year’s Ag Innovators Experience in their local communities.
Applications are due Saturday, December 31.
Learn more at 4h.unl.edu/aie.
Link to Teen Leader Application Form: https://go.unl.edu/aieteenleader
Link to Local Facilitator Application Form: https://go.unl.edu/aiefacilitator
2023 4-H Camp
We’re so excited to announce Adventure Together, the new Nebraska 4-H Camp series for 2023! Registration information will be coming soon. In the meantime, mark your calendars: Chadron – June 5-9; Cozad – June 16-20; Ashland – June 26-29; Burwell – July 16-20; Louisville – July 27-30.
State Achievement Applications
State Achievement Applications are due by January 5. Only Senior Achievement Applications are accepted for state-level awards and recognition. These applications are used for selecting National 4-H Congress delegates, National 4-H Conference delegates, and Nebraska 4-H Foundation scholarship recipients. Learn more at 4h.unl.edu/achievement-application
Special Garden Project
We are excited to announce that entries are officially open for the 2023 Nebraska Cattleman's Classic Youth Livestock Judging Contest. Entries must be submitted by Feb. 5th and this year's contest will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18th . Per usual, the contest will be held at the Buffalo County Fairgrounds there in Kearney, NE and check-in will open at 7am with the contest beginning promptly at 8am. We look forward to another great contest with an outstanding awards dinner and banquet to follow!
For more information visit: https://nebraskaclassic.org/winter-edition/judging-contest.php
The Nebraska Extension Special Agronomy Project gives 4-H members an opportunity to experience a crop that is grown, was grown or has the potential to be grown in Nebraska. Youth participate by receiving seed and resources to grow the crop, research traits of the crop and determine the viability of that crop in the part of the state they live. The project allows 4-H members interested in agronomy to grow something fun, new, and different.
In its third year of the special agronomy project, youth will explore tepary beans. Tepary beans are a traditional Native American food crop. This legume can be enjoyed as a dry edible bean in cooking or as a forage or hay for livestock and is drought tolerant. In fact, too much water can reduce stands and yields.
Youth should enroll for the Special Agronomy Project through 4-H Online. Youth will have access to the educational materials including the growing newsletter & evaluation on our website: https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/lincolnmcpherson/2023-special-agronomy-project-tepary-beans/
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. (M-F)
Email: caitlyn.jacobson@unl.edu
Website: https://llm.unl.edu
Phone: 308-532-2683
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