Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Page A-5
4-h program still strong in josephine County
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
4-H has been around since the late
1800s and was created because researchers
found that adults in the farming community
were resistant to new agricultural
development methods. Instead of directly
making a connection with adults they
appealed to children who would share their
experiences with their family or carry the
knowledge for later in life if they became a
farmer themselves.
About 200 kids in Josephine County
are participating this year in a program that
aims to teach youth how to raise market
animals; specifically beef, sheep, swine
and goat to sell at auction at the Josephine
County Fair. “Our program focus is youth
development,” Sue Hunt said before
continuing on, “We use the kids’ interest in
animals to get them into the program.” 4-H,
with this developmental mission in mind,
teaches youth via hands on techniques in
the subjects of health, science, agriculture
and citizenship.
goats are up and coming because they
are the least expensive market animal
to start and maintain. This year will be
4-H’s third year with goats as a choice
for the program. “It’s a Middle Eastern
food for the most part but it’s becoming
more popular,” Hunt said of goat meat
before further explaining, “There’s a lot
of Hispanic food that’s made with goat
too so I think as those populations grow
and migrate throughout the state we’ll
see a much larger number of those
animals being sold. Particularly when
people learn how to use them and cook
them.”
Another area related to raising
market animals is judging them for
which 4-H also has a program. On the
topic Hunt said, “We have a team of
kids that like to compete so they learn
how to judge livestock then they go
around to the different county fairs and
they take part in those livestock judging
(Photo by Dan Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
contests and then ultimately they end
Sierra Ferry and her second place hog
up at state fair. The winning team gets
“Vienna” during the 2016 Josephine
to go to national livestock judging,”
“The kids who are interested, and
want to raise a market animal of those four
species, then raise that animal to hopefully
sell at auction for ultimately someone to
eat,” Hunt said. However, participants can
also choose to donate the animal to one of
many philanthropic organizations in town.
The animal auction is held on the last day
of the fair on Saturday, Aug. 19. It starts
at 10 a.m. for beef, goats and sheep then
swine are auctioned after lunch. The judges
who rate the youth’s market animals are
hired from around the state and are cycled
out after two years.
The youth get to keep the money from
the auction but are charged fees to cover
the costs of the program. Participants are
only allowed to auction one animal at any
given fair but for the ambitious young
entrepreneur there are auctions twice a year
so, at maximum, two animals can be sold a
year.
“Swine’s the biggest one,” Hunt said
with regard to the most popular animal to
raise, “It’s been around the longest and it’s
not as expensive as beef to get into and
feed out.” However, according to Hunt,
County Fair.
Oregon seeing decrease in sports officials
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
Over the last five years the number of officials qualified
and able to oversee high school sports games have decreased
16 percent and the Oregon School Activities Association
(OSAA) and Oregon Athletic Officials Association (OAOA)
are beginning to cancel games, mostly at the sub-varsity levels,
because of the shortage. Jack Folliard, long-time official and
executive director of the OAOA, gave some insight as to why
this is happening and what can be done about the problem.
“I think that most people think there are a variety of
reasons, not necessarily in this order, but society has changed
such that people are really busy with their jobs and their
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their association. Generally, for those who are interested, it’s
a four to six week program which, according to Folliard, is a
great program with lots of hands on learning and mentorship.
Folliard further added that previous experience in the sport is
recommended but just because you’ve played the sport in the
past doesn’t automatically qualify you for official duty.
In total, registration and other fees amount to $50-80
but after that comes the cost of uniforms and other necessary
equipment. Softball and baseball, according to Folliard, is the
most expensive sport to start officiating because of umpire
padding and other equipment. Despite this, he also mentioned
that associations tend to have hand-me-down equipment which
can help a fledgling official get started.
families. It takes a lot of time to be an official,” Folliard
said before continuing on, “Another reason is frankly that
officials are being abused more by spectators then in the past.
I think it’s a cultural thing.” Furthermore, Folliard suggested
that those who are interested in becoming an official have a
“thick skin,” or in plain terms, a mentality tough enough to
ignore disrespectful spectators. Folliard went on to explain
that coaches at the high school level are generally respectful
and they have ways of disciplining the ones who are not but
officials have no way of controlling the vulgar enthusiasm of
the spectators.
“There’s quite a bit of training,” Folliard said of the
requirements necessary for becoming an official. Oregon
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