Author: John Fourqurean
Planning Unit: McLean County CES
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Plan of Work: Developing McLean County
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
The McLean County Ag fair has been in existence for several years and livestock shows have always been a large part of the Ag fair. It allows 4-H and FFA members to exhibit their livestock projects from the surrounding counties as well as the local area. The local 4-H Council has been borrowing pens so that the exhibitors would have a place to pen their livestock when they came to McLean County, which was a lot of work for the Volunteers. This agent saw an opportunity to solve this issue for the local community by using Ag Development Funds to secure new pens for McLean County.
The 4-H Council applied for these funds, with the help of the McLean County Extension Agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources, with donations and monies derived from some fundraising activities. Forty new pens and gates for a show ring were secured with a 50/50 grant from the GOAP for a total investment of just over $15000. These pens will help the exhibitors when exhibiting their livestock at the McLean County Ag Fair as well as present the opportunity for the McLean County Livestock Club to host jackpot shows throughout the show season for several different species of livestock.
This year the 2024 Poultry program had agents from McLean, Grayson and Ohio counties coordinate a pr... Read More
The 2024 McLean County Farm to Fork program was held August 6th, 2024, at the Extension Facility loc... Read More
Every year, one of my biggest events is our McLean County Youth Ag & Safety Day. We bring in all the... Read More
After the formation of our county Teen club we have been working together as our teens are starting ... Read More