The Missouri State Fair is proud to celebrate youth on Youth in Agriculture Day, sponsored by the Missouri Department of Agriculture, on Saturday, Aug. 17.
New this year – the Best of Missouri Awards and Sale, sponsored by America’s Heartland Packing, LLC, will benefit the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture scholarship program and showcase exhibitors divisional champion products. It will take place at the Lowell Mohler Assembly Hall with the Carcass Awards beginning at 10:30 a.m. and the Sale of 19 lots beginning at 11:15 a.m.
The Sale of Champions auction will take place beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Lowell Mohler Assembly Hall. The Sale will feature 12 young agriculturalists and their livestock projects including the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion steers, barrows, lambs, meat goats, pens of chickens, and pens of rabbits from 4-H and FFA shows. This Sale supports the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture Fund, providing educational programs, competitive events and scholarships for agricultural youth.
Here’s a quick glance at the day’s schedule:
- Let’s Talk Livestock – Equine demo – 11 a.m., south of the Coliseum; Rabbit demo – 4:30 p.m. at the Rabbit Barn.
- Contests including the Lick Your Chops, Missouri! Cooking Contest and 4-H Missouri Grown Foods Specialty Contest.
- Livestock shows all day including beef cattle, dairy goat and swine shows, 4-H/FFA Supreme Beef Heifer Show, 4-H/FFA All Supreme & Reserve Heifer Show, 4-H/FFA Dairy Heifer Show and Jr. Dairymen Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Draft Horse Halter Classes and Classic Cart Series and Draft Horse Hitches, sponsored by BTC Bank.
- Free entertainment all day for all ages including the Elton Dan and the Rocket Band and Dirt Road Addiction on the Budweiser Stage and The Girls Next Door KC on the Superior Sleep Stage.
- Military Flag Retreat Ceremony honoring Holli D. Meushke of Warrensburg – 5:30 p.m. at the flagpole in front of the Historic Administration Building.
- Alabama with Restless Road – 7:30 p.m. in the State Fair Grandstand, presented by CFM Insurance; Tickets on sale now. Fireworks display, sponsored by Missouri S&T, immediately following the concert.
Join us to celebrate Missouri’s youth in agriculture, Saturday, Aug. 17, at the 2024 Missouri State Fair! Check out the complete daily schedules on the Fair’s website. The Missouri State Fair is going on now through Aug. 18, in Sedalia.
