Erickson 4-H update

By Chet Woychyshynr Erickson 4 -H Club

The Erickson 4H Beef Club has been busy with preparation for the upcoming achievement days.

Along with the April meeting a clipping demonstration was held at Woychyshyn’s. Thank you Geoff and Rylee Paterson and Greg Woychyshyn for all of your knowledge to help on getting our beef projects fit for the ring.

On May 8, the club held a regular meeting night at the Clanwilliam Curling rink. On May 15, members and parents from the Erickson, Neepawa and Rapid City clubs got together at Clanman Jersey to bag the joint order of over 400 bags of compost, 12,000 lbs of compost was bagged! The club would like to thank everyone who supported this years Neepawa & Area Fat Stock Show Compost fundraiser. A big thank you to Clanman Jersey for once again partnering with us on this fundraiser.

On Sunday, June 11, the club had a wind up Barbecue and Field Day along with the June meeting. We brushed up on our showmanship skills and made halters and neck ties.

Thank you to the Paterson’s for hosting.

Our Club level Achievement Day was held at the Minnedosa Ag Barn on Sunday June 25.

The Neepawa & Area Fat Stock Show and Sale day is Wednesday July 5, steer sale is at 7:00 p.m.

The event is open to the public to take in, we welcome everyone to come out and watch us show off this years projects!