DEPARTMENT 12
Hay - Grain - Straw

Refer to General Rules

Section 1 - Grain and Seed Crops

1. One quart glass jars with lids are to be used to show grain in classes 4 through 7. The fair may use its own containers if it so chooses.
2. If the fair management believes any of the exhibits were shown in previous years, those entries may be refused.
3. One award per farming enterprise per class.

Class 1: Corn - 6 ears
A. Hybrid
     1. field corn (white, yellow)
B. Open Pollinated
     1. field corn (white, yellow, red)
     2. Indian corn (colored)
C. Popcorn
Class 2: 3 Stalks
A. field
B. silage
Class 3: Sunflowers - 1 Stalk
A. single head
B. multiple head
Class 4: Oats
A. Ogle
B. Noble
C. Armour
D. Hercules
E. Porter
F. any other
Class 5: Wheat
A. Soft Red
     1. public
     2. private
B. Hard Red
     1. public
     2. private
C. Any Other

Class 6: Winter Barley
A. Wysor
B. Pennco
C. Nomini
D. any other
Class 7: Miscellaneous
A. Alfalfa
     1. public
     2. private
B. Buckwheat
     1. Japanese or Silverhull
     2. Pennquad
C. Red Clover Seed
D. Rye
E. Soybeans
     1. public
     2. private
F. Sunflower seeds - 1 quart
     1. black oil
     2. gray stripe
G. any other
Class 8: Shelled Corn
Class 9: Broom Corn - (bunch)

Section 2 - Hay/Straw

1. Long hay only. An exhibit shall consist of a bale section at least 8 inches thick or an equivalent amount if cut from hay in the mow.

Class 1 - 
Alfalfa or alfalfa grass mixed, first cutting. Not over 50% of grasses
Class 2 -
Alfalfa or alfalfa grass mixed, lated cuttings. Not over 50% of grasses
Class 3 -
Other legumes or legume grass mixtures. Not over 50% of grasses
Class 4 -
Grass first cutting. Mixtures of timothy and/or other grasses and containing not more than 10% legumes
Class 5 -
Grass, second cutting. Mixtures of timothy and/or other grasses and containing not more than 10% legumes

Class 6 - 
Mixed hay - any mixture not classified in the previous classes but which contains 50% or more singly or in combination of alfalfa, timothy, clover and grasses.
Class 7 - New Seeding Alfalfa
Class 8 - 
Summer Annual Grasses - Sudan grass, Sorghum-Sudan, hybrids, etc.
Class 9 - Hay
A. Timothy
Class 10 - Straw
A. Barley 
B. Oat
C. Rye
D. Wheat

Section 3 - Silage

1. Silage crop must be named. Exhibits shall consist of ten pounds. (Large size 2 1/2 gallon clear plastic bags are excellent containers for transporting or showing samples. Bags should be equal to a 1-peck measure or larger.)

Class 1: Perennial crops 

• direct cut, with or without preservatives
  

Class 2: Perennial crops  

• wilted or low moisture, with or without preservatives
  

Class 3: Annuals other than corn

• direct cut, with or without preservatives

Class 4: Annuals other than corn

• wilted or low moisture

Class 5: Corn silage
Class 6: High Moisture Corn

• Shelled or ground