June 2025 - 4-H Animal Lines

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison

2025-2026 4-H/FFA Livestock Show Deadlines

2025-2026 Ownership/Entry Validation/Classification Schedule

All market steers, commercial beef heifers, market lambs, market hair sheep, commercial meat goat does, wether dams, breeding hair sheep, market hogs, and market goats MUST BE validated (DNA hair sample collected) to show at the 2025 Mississippi State Fair and 2026 District and Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows during the week of September 8-10, 2025. During the validation period, steers, commercial beef heifers, market hair sheep, and breeding hair sheep will be classified as well. See the locations and times below. Make your exhibitors aware of these locations and dates so they can make plans to get their animals processed.

• Monday, September 8: Hattiesburg – 8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
• Tuesday, September 9: Raymond – 8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
• Wednesday, September 10: Greenwood – 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.
• Wednesday, September 10: Oxford – 2:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.

For the 2026 District/DNJR shows, all market hogs, commercial gilts, and MS Bred Barrows must be owned and entered by December 1 and MUST BE validated at the locations and times below. All market hogs and commercial gilts will be classified at the 2026 DNJR as listed on the schedule. For newly entered commercial beef heifers, wether dams, breeding hair sheep, and commercial meat goat does that were not processed in September, but were entered by December 1, these animals MUST BE validated, and the commercial beef heifers and breeding hair sheep will also be classified at the same time to show at the 2026 District and Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows during the week of December 8-11, 2025. See the locations and times below. Make your exhibitors aware of these locations and dates so they can make plans to get their animals processed.

• Monday, December 8: Hattiesburg – 8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
• Tuesday, December 9: Raymond – 8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
• Wednesday, December 10: Greenwood – 8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
• Thursday, December 11: Oxford – 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon