2025 State Fair
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 27 – Monday, Sept. 1, 2025
Location: South Dakota State Fair @ Huron
Registration Deadline: Aug. 12, 2025
SDSU Extension’s 4-H Youth Development Program helps young people to reach their full potential as competent, confident leaders of character who contribute and are connected to their communities.
In 4-H, youth design and participate in their own projects and related activities. This unique learn-by-doing model teaches essential skills that youth will use throughout their lives. Whether a young person builds a rocket, raises a companion pet, or plants vegetables, 4-H gives youth the skills they need to thrive and succeed.
If you are interested in chaperoning this overnight experience for youth, fill out the coach and chaperone interest form.
Resources
Use the links below to view books, forms and scoresheets. Items are scoresheets unless otherwise labeled. Forms and worksheets are marked with a *.
Animals
Background
- 4-H Youth Experience in Animal Projects – Purposes
- Animal Project Lease Form & Requirements*
- 4-H Animal Ownership and Identification Guide
- Premier Livestock Exhibitor Award
- 4-H Grievance Policy
- 4-H Livestock Project Feed, Worming and Weight Logs
LIVESTOCK SKILL-A-THON
Scoresheets and Resources
- Cat Showmanship
- Companion Animal Book
- Companion Animal - Live Exhibit
- Dairy Cattle
- Dairy Cattle Showmanship
- Meat Goat Divisions
- Poultry Preparation & Showmanship Guide
- Poultry Showmanship
- Rabbit Show Remark Card
- Rabbit Showmanship
Display Exhibits
- Display Exhibits Entry Form*
- Educational Displays and Posters
- Aerospace and Rocketry
- Child Development and Family Life
- Clothing and Textiles
- Companion Animal - Display Exhibit
- Computers and Technology
- Electricity
- Engineering
- Entomology and Bees
- First Aid
- Food Preservation
- Foods and Nutrition
- Forestry
- General 4-H Projects
- Geology and Minerals
- Graphic Design
- Health
- Hobbies and Collections
- Home Environment
- Horse and Pony
- Horticulture, Gardening and Landscaping
- Music and Dance
- Photography
- Plant Science: Crops and Weeds
- Poultry and Eggs
- Range Science and Pasture Management
- Sheep and Wool
- Shooting Sports: Shooting Safety Lesson
- Visual Arts
- Welding Science
- Wildlife and Fisheries
- Wood Science
- Writing and Public Speaking: Poetry and Prose
Youth In Action
Family Consumer Sciences Skill-A-Thon (CDM)
- Food & Cooking ID
- Interior Design & Housing ID
- Sewing & Clothing ID
- How to Fill Out a Scantron Sheet
- Practice Scantron
Fashion Revue
- Contestant Packet (includes registration and score sheet)
Communications Project
Robotics Showcase
STEM Challenge
Special Foods
- Contestant Packet (includes forms, score sheets and worksheets)
- MyPlate Plan
- Cost Per Serving Worksheet (Seniors only)
- Handbook
- South Dakota 4-H Special Foods Flash Cards
- Special Foods Workshop Guidelines
- Special Foods Workshop PowerPoint
Horticulture Skill-A-Thon
4-H Ribbons Explained
4-H encourages all members to "make the best better." An essential role of volunteer judges is to provide feedback to exhibitors on how projects could or should be improved, allowing members to expand their knowledge in a project area.
Use this video as a resource to better understand the Danish system of judging, which compares an exhibit to the ideal standards.
Visit 4-H Judging Resources to review the hot sheets on judging basics, judging 4-H exhibits and providing feedback.
Past Results
Results, recognition and photos from past State Fair 4-H competitions can be viewed below.
View photos in the 2024 State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
Dairy Cattle
Goats
- Dairy Goat
- Dairy Goat Showmanship
- Commercial Breeding Meat Goat
- Registered Breeding Meat Goats
- Registered and Commercial Breeding Meat Goat Showmanship
- Market Meat Goat
- Wether Dam & Market Meat Goat Showmanship
- Wether Dam Breeding Meat Goat
Small Animal
Sheep
Swine
Display Exhibits
Youth in Action
- Dairy Skill-A-Thon
- Family and Consumer Sciences (Consumer Decision Making) Skill-A-Thon
- Fashion Revue
- Horticulture Skill-A-Thon
- Poultry Skill-A-Thon
- Public Presentations
- Special Foods
- Rabbit Skill-A-Thon
- Robotics Showcase
- STEM Challenge
- Youth in Action Mastery Showcase
Premier Exhibitor
View photos in the 2023 State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
Dairy Cattle
Goats
Small Animal
Sheep
Swine
Premier Exhibitor
View photos in the 2022 State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
Dairy Cattle
Goats
Small Animals
Sheep
Swine
View photos in the 2021 State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
Dairy Cattle
Goats
Small Animal
Sheep
Swine
View photos in the 2020 4-H State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
Dairy Cattle
Goats
Small Animal
Sheep
Swine
Display Exhibits
- Participation (sorted by county)
- Judged (final-year members)
View photos in the 2019 4-H State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
- Breeding Beef
- Market Beef
- Market Beef Ultrasound
- Beef Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) McPherson, 2) Brule, 3) Hamlin
Dairy Cattle
Goats
- Dairy Goat Showmanship
- Dairy Goat
- Breeding Meat Goat
- Market Meat Goat
- Meat Goat Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) Kingsbury, 2) Brule, 3) Potter
Small Animal
Sheep
- Breeding Sheep
- Sheep Showmanship
- Market Sheep
- Herdsmanship: 1) Sanborn, 2) Aurora, 3) Brookings
Swine
- Market Swine Showmanship
- Market Swine
- Herdsmanship: 1) Potter, 2) Clark, 3) Hutchinson
View photos in the 2018 4-H State Fair album.
Livestock
Beef
- Breeding Beef Show
- Market Beef Show
- Market Beef Ultrasound
- Beef Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) Clay, 2) Davison, 3) Miner
Dairy Cattle
Goats
- Dairy Goat Show
- Dairy Goat Showmanship
- Breeding Meat Goat Show
- Market Meat Goat Show
- Meat Goat Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) Kingsbury, 2) Brule, 3) Turner
Small Animals
Sheep
- Breeding Sheep
- Market Sheep
- Sheep Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) Codington, 2) Clay, 3) Hutchinson
Swine
- Market Swine
- Market Swine Showmanship
- Herdsmanship: 1) Potter, 2) Bon Homme, 3) Miner
Static Exhibits
- All Results (sorted by county)
