Lancaster County Forming Teams for Premier Animal Science Event (PASE)

Livestock Judging
Livestock Judging

This year, Lancaster County 4-H is hoping to increase our county’s participation at the statewide Premier Animal Science Event (PASE). This is a two-day event designed to help youth learn about issues related to the animal industry, explore career opportunities, compete with other 4-H youth from across the state and have FUN! PASE will be held June 17–18 at University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus. Youth must be 10 years of age by January 1 to compete. For more information about PASE, visit https://4h.unl.edu/pase.

If you are interested in participating and any of the following contests, contact Calvin DeVries at 402-441-7180 or calvin.devries@unl.edu by April 15. Practices will start in late April or early May.

LIVESTOCK JUDGING
The Livestock Judging contest will include placing classes as well as reasons and questions on designated classes. These classes can consist of any combination of breeding and/or market classes within beef, swine, sheep and goat species. Performance data (EPD’s and/or actual data) may be provided on breeding livestock classes along with production scenarios.

Senior contestants will give reasons on 4 classes and answer questions on 2 classes. Intermediate contestants will give reasons on 3 classes and answer questions on 2 classes.

In each age division, A team consists of 3 or 4 members with total scores of the three highest individuals making the team score. An Intermediate Division team consists of 3 or 4 individuals, age 10 to 13 before January 1 of the current year. A Senior Division team consists of 3 or 4 individuals, 14 years of age or older before January 1 of the current year.

Lancaster County teams are coached by 4-H volunteer Roger Bell.

LIVESTOCK SKILL-A-THON
The contest will consist of six team stations. Each station is worth 100 points, for a total of 600 points in the contest. Stations will be 18 minutes each. It is expected that stations will have enough tasks or problems to complete that in order to complete an entire station, all team members will not be able to work together on all tasks/problems. Stations will include meats, breed and/or equipment identification, breeding scenario problems, feed identification, feeding/performance problems, quality assurance, animal evaluation and marketing problems.

The livestock skill-a-thon contest has two age divisions. In each division a team consists of three to five individuals. All members of a team work together throughout the contest for one team score. An Intermediate Division team consists of individual’s ages 10-13 before January 1 of the current year. A Senior Division team consists of individuals aged 14-18 before January 1 of the current year.

Lancaster County teams would be coached by Extension Assistant Calvin DeVries.

LIVESTOCK QUIZ BOWL
This contest will consist of three phases.

Phase One will consist of eight one-on-one questions. During the one-on-one competition, only one member of each team who the specific question is directed to will be eligible to respond. This eligibility will rotate with each question beginning with the team captain of each team, and rotating to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th contestants of each team, respectively, until all eight questions have been asked.

Phase Two will consist of eight questions. Each team will have first opportunity to answer four questions on alternating basis. The team may discuss questions prior to answering, but only the team captain can report the answer in this round.

Phase Three will consist of regular, toss-up and bonus questions with a possible total of 16 questions worth 15 points each. During this phase, any team member from either team may buzz in to answer a regular or toss-up question. The first two questions will be regular questions. Every third question will be a toss-up question with a bonus attached.

The General Livestock Quiz Bowl has two age divisions. An Intermediate Division team consists of four individuals, age 10 to 13 before January 1 of the current year. A Senior Division team consists of four individuals, 14 years of age or older before January 1 of the current year. If a unit does not have four members who are 14 years or older, they may use members who are Intermediate Division age, but who are not also on an Intermediate Division team.

Lancaster County teams would be coached by Extension Assistant Calvin DeVries.

POULTRY JUDGING
This contest consists of two classes of judging hens for past production, one set of oral reasons, grading eggs based on interior and exterior quality, broken out egg grading, grading of ready-to-cook poultry and identification of ready-to-cook parts. “National Poultry Judging” (4H460) will be used as a reference for this contest.

There are no age divisions for this contest. A team consists of 3 or 4 members with total scores of the three highest individuals making the team score.

Lancaster County teams would be coached by UNL graduate research assistant Ashley Bigge.

MEATS JUDGING
The Meats Judging contest consists of retail meat cut identification, food safety practicum lab exercises, a written test and two placing classes of retail cuts. This contest will take place in the Loeffel Meats Laboratory at the Animal Science Complex. Participants will need to be prepared for 35–40°F conditions for this competition.

There are no age divisions in this contest. A team consists of 3 or 4 members with total scores of the three highest individuals making the team score.

Lancaster County teams would be coached by Extension Assistant Calvin DeVries and 4-H volunteer Roger Bell.

More details at: https://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/contest/PASELancasterCo19.pdf