Plans Well State Fair is over and HBC time is drawing near.  In that regard, we now have the Schedule, Trade Show Information, All Star and Breed Sales Information, Junior Show Rules and Entry Forms posted for the 2010 HBC.  Please take time to read through those documents and start sending in those entries.  The entry deadline for the sale consignments is October 15th and the deadline for Junior Show entries is November 1, 2010.
There are some exciting new things planned for the 2010 HBC.  One of the new requirements is that all steers and Commercial Heifers exhibited at the 2010 HBC must be tagged with an 840 program compliant RFID tag before they come to the scales to be weighed.  The Indiana Board of Animal Health has these tags available for free for breeders who would like to put the tags in prior to the event and they will also staff a booth and chute to tag animals at the event with the compliant tags for free.  Just make sure that you have these tags in your animals ear prior to coming to the scales to be weighed.
Another change for this year is the addition of a Red Angus division in the Heifer portion of the Junior Show.  The Indiana Red Angus Association hosted a successful sale at HBC last year and had a division at the 2009 Indiana State Fair 4-H show and now they also have a class at HBC.  Last year the addition of the Shorthorn Plus, Maintainer and Percentage Simmental classes was well received.  In fact the Supreme Female came out of one of these new divisions and we will again be offering divisions for these three breed programs.

If you have additional questions concerning HBC, please feel free to give us a call at the office.  Thanks and we look forward to seeing you on the first weekend in December.