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Vegetables & Crops

Vegetables & Field Crops

Here is a complete list of all the areas available for Vegetables, Grains and Grasses and Field Crop classes. Click the link below for a complete copy of only this section of the Fair Book. 

Grains and Grasses- Class 25

Sponsored by Pioneer Hi-Bred Ltd. and Port Perry Seeds, Jim Roefs

All entries to be in to Secretary by Saturday August 19th. All exhibits must be in the Arena before 11:30 a.m. Friday August 25th. Only one entry per family will be allowed. All exhibits must be the present year’s crop except grain soybeans. Prizes: 1st $14 2nd $12 3rd $8 4th $6

Chair – Katie Grove

1.      Soft Red Winter Wheat, named, 2023, approx. 4 litres.

2.      Hard Red Winter Wheat, named, 2023, approx. 4 litres.

3.      Soft White Wheat, named, 2023, approx. 4 litres.

4.      Grain, Soybeans, named, 2023, approx. 4 litres.

5.      Sheaf ensilage corn, named, 10 stalks.

6.      10 cobs of Grain Corn, named.

7.      Baled Hay, first cut, 10” slice or equivalent.

#7 sponsored by Bob Swain

8.      Baled Hay, second cut, 10” slice or equivalent

9.      Haylage

10.   Whole plant soybean, named, specify row width.      

 

Vegetables- Class 26


Sponsored by
Linton’s Farm Market, Oshawa

Chair-    Helen Coates (905) 985-3985      

All entries to be in to Secretary by Saturday August 19th.  All exhibits must be in the Arena before 11:30 a.m. Friday August 25th. Vegetables MUST be on paper plates unless otherwise specified. Tags must be securely fastened. Exhibits may be picked up Saturday August 26th at 6 p.m.

Prizes-  1st-$5   2nd-$4   3rd-$3   

1.       3 potatoes, white, named

2.       3 potatoes, any other colour, named

3.       2 zucchini, maximum length, 12”, stem on

4.       2 squash, not summer squash, stem on

5.       5 carrots, 1” tops

6.       3 onions, Dutch set, not skinned

7.       3 Spanish onions, not skinned

8.       3 sweet peppers, any colour, stems on

9.       5 green beans

10.   5 beans, any other colour

11.   3 beets, round, 1” tops

12.   3 beets, cylindrical, 1” tops

13.   5 pickling cucumbers

14.   2 slicing cucumbers

15.   3 green tomatoes, min 2 ¼ “diameter, stems on

16.   3 red tomatoes, not plum, min 2 ¼ “diameter, stems on

17.   3 plum tomatoes, stems on

18.   5 ripe tomatoes, cherry or miniature, stems on, any colour

19.   3 garlic, 1” top, roots on

20.   1 Oddly Shaped Vegetable

21.   5 vegetables used in vegetable soup displayed in a cooking pot

Most Points in Sections 1-21 will receive a Veseys Seeds Gift Certificate $25

Junior Vegetables- Class 27


Sponsored by
Murray Hill Farm, Blackstock
Open to children age pre-school to Grade 8. Tags must be securely fastened.

Prizes-  1st-$4   2nd-$3.50   3rd-$3.00    4th-$2.50    5th- $2.00

1.       5 green beans

2. 5 beans, any other colour

3.       3 Carrots, 1” top

4.       3 tomatoes, cherry or miniature, any colour

5.       3 peppers, any colour

6.       1 zucchini, 6”-12” long

7.       Longest bean

8.       Longest zucchini

9.       Longest carrot, measured to end of tap root

10.   5 vegetables used in vegetable soup displayed in a cooking container

Most Points in sections 1-10 will receive a Seed Starter Gift Kit from McKenzie Seeds