CROP SCIENCE DIVISION

Project Interview (required)

All exhibits must be production of current year or immediate preceding year and identified by variety on entry tag.

Entries of forage or sheaf grain shall be a sheaf three-to-five (3-5) inches in diameter at the first tie below head - tie in three places.

 

CLASS 100           Display related to your visit to a bakery

CLASS 101           Collection of various products made from small grains

CLASS 102           Display telling about your visit to a local livestock feed store

CLASS 103           Poster with a labeled cereal plant attached

CLASS 104           Display of germinated seeds

CLASS 105           Exhibit showing the nine stages of plant growth

CLASS 106           Collection of small grains in containers

CLASS 107           Display of various varieties of small grains

CLASS 108           Display of a spring and winter cereal grain

CLASS 109           Display showing the differences in seed quality

CLASS 110           Exhibit of germinated seeds from exercise 10

CLASS 111           Display with different seed varieties and their resistant

CLASS 112           Display showing the effects of different planting depths

CLASS 113           Collection of soil types

CLASS 114           Display showing growing plants in different soil types

CLASS 115           Display showing small grain insect pests

CLASS 116           Display identifying weeds

CLASS 117           Collection of small grain pests

CLASS 118           Exhibit showing how to determine field acreages

CLASS 119           Display showing how to determine small grain harvest loss

CLASS 120           Display how to determine the volume of storage structures

CLASS 121           Present a marketing plan

CLASS 122           Display a balance sheet of prices over time of small grains

CLASS 123           Show how production costs are determined

CLASS 124           Exhibit related to careers related to crops

CLASS 125           Plant press

CLASS 126           Other related item 1

CLASS 127           Other related item 2

CLASS 128           Other related item 3

 CROP SCIENCE INDEPENDENT STUDY 

CLASS 200           Educational display

CLASS 201           Other related item 1

CLASS 202           Other related item2

CLASS 203           Other related item 3

WEED SCIENCE DIVISIONS

Project Interview (required) 

All exhibits of plant collections to be pressed, mounted and labeled, no duplications.

WEED SCIENCE LEVEL 1

CLASS 100     Educational Display

CLASS 101      Display showing the ten highest cost weeds in Montana and the crops they affect.

CLASS 102      Display showing different ways weed seeds spread to new locations.

CLASS 103      Plant press created in project

CLASS 104      Display of pressed plants and/or photos you have taken illustrating the following terms:  weeds and native non-native, invasive and noxious plants

CLASS 105      Chart showing the exponential growth of a knapweed plant

CLASS 106      Display that illustrates the effects of erosion

CLASS 107      Other related item 1

CLASS 108      Other related item 2

CLASS 109      Other related item 3

WEED SCIENCE LEVEL 2

CLASS  200          Educational display

CLASS  201          Collection of 8 weeds poisonous to livestock

CLASS  202          Exhibit 5 noxious weeds from your county

CLASS  203          Collection from first year plus 18 weeds

CLASS  204         Farm Weed Map according to Manual

CLASS  205         Other related item 1

CLASS  206         Other related item 2

CLASS  207         Other related item 3 

 

WEED SCIENCE LEVEL 3

CLASS  300          Educational display

CLASS  301         Collection of 8 weeds poisonous to livestock

CLASS  302          Exhibit 5 noxious weeds from your county

CLASS  303          Display of five different crop seeds with three different weed seeds

CLASS  304          Collection from first and second year, plus 20 weeds

CLASS  305         Other related item 1

CLASS  306         Other related item 2

CLASS  307         Other related itme 3

 

WEED SCIENCE INDEPENDENT STUDY 

CLASS 400           Educational Display

CLASS 401           Other related item 1

CLASS 402           Other related item 2

CLASS 403           Other related item 3