Ag Informer – Choose Iowa 4-H Contest – Mix 94.7 KMCH

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging school-age college students to take part within the 2023 Select Iowa Calendar Contest hosted by the Iowa Division of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Art work submitted ought to function a minimum of one facet of Iowa agriculture, with an emphasis on meals, livestock or crop manufacturing. Submissions might be judged on each creativity and the connection of agriculture to on a regular basis life. Entries are due June 1, 2023, and winners might be introduced on the 2023 Iowa State Truthful.

Secretary Naig will honor the successful artists throughout a particular awards ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 15 within the Agriculture Constructing on the 2023 Iowa State Truthful. Successful submissions can even be included within the 2023/2024 Select Iowa calendar distributed on the Division’s sales space within the Assorted Industries Constructing throughout the Iowa State Truthful and on-line at ChooseIowa.com all yr.

College-age college students as much as 18-years-old are invited to take part within the contest. Photos must be drawn on plain white, 8.5 by 11-inch paper in a horizontal orientation utilizing solely black traces. The images shouldn’t be coloured in. For artistic inspiration, earlier calendars could also be seen right here.

Entries could be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to the Iowa Division of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Attn: Select Iowa Calendar, 502 E ninth St., Des Moines, Iowa, 50319. Every submission ought to embrace primary details about the artist (on the again of the entry or a separate sheet), together with the artist’s identify, age, grade, faculty, and hometown, in addition to the identify, electronic mail and telephone variety of a mum or dad or guardian. For consideration, entries have to be postmarked or e-mailed to the Division by June 1, 2023.