OMGP Youth Scholarship Program � Updated � There will only be ten Scholarships available this year. Your application must be received by March 31, 2010 for Committee review and awarded applications will be notified by April 30, 2010. Youth Scholarship application
Cash Awards or cash to purchase Awards for the youth shows and project throughout the state. A Request for funds needs to be submitted two months in advance so actions can be taken to provide the request.
Direction in how to run a Jackpot Meat Goat Class
| This person will: Contact the local 4-H/FFA organizations' Meat Goat Clubs to see what help OMGP may be able to provide. Encourage the groups to have a Meat Goat Class in their local fair and send winners to their State Fair. Be an ear to the youth of the area. Get the registered Boer goat shows to provide a youth class for Showmanship, Youth Breed Stock classes, and Youth Jackpot Meat Class. Both US Boer Goat Assoc and American Boer Goat Assoc have a youth division class set up for the show organizer to use. Report to the OMGP Youth Program Coordinator monthly with a report of activity. |
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| Area | Area Coordinator | Contact |
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| Douglas County Meat Goat Association (Area 1) | Bonnie Wuergler | Email: bonniewuergler@yahoo.com Phone: 541-836-2601 Phone: 541-513-3881 Cell |
| Rogue Region Meat Goats of OMGP (Area 3) | Open | |
| Mid Willamette Valley-Coast Meat Goats (Area 4) | Open | |
| North Central Oregon (Area 5) | Sandi Lauer | Email: blkcowldy@yahoo.com Phone: 503-310-2865 |
| Central Oregon Goat Producers (Area 7) | Open | |
| High Desert Meat Goats (Area 8) | Open | |
| Greater OMGP (Area 18) | Open | |
| This person will: Recruit Area Youth Coordinators for each active area of OMGP Keep monthly contacts with each Area Youth Program Coordinator Report to the Board Liaison monthly with a report of activity Write a brief report for the newsletter on what is going on with the Youth |
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| Committee | Chair Person | Contact |
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| Youth Programs | Open | |
| Youth Programs Liaison | Manda Doffing | Email: mandad@frontiernet.net Web: http://www.tri-r-ranch.com/ Phone: 541-832-3349 |
As the youth contact for your area you will need to do a few things to promote youth to participate in meat goat projects and become youth members of OMGP.
This information is to help you find ways to help the youth of your area to become interested in the raising of meat goats. By participating in 4-H or FFA the youth are exposed to the raising of a market project animal. This may spark an interest in raising their own market project prospects. If then the youth gains an interest in the meat goat raising business OMGP will have expanded the meat available for sale on the open market.
Contact the 4-H leaders that have goats in their clubs. Your local OSU Extension Service has this information. Contact the FFA advisors at the local area's high schools. The OSU extension agent may have this listing or you will need to contact the schools themselves. Meet with these leaders. Explain the joys of raising meat goats and the options available thru OMGP. Even better is to go to one of meetings of the clubs and extol the advantages of meat goats as a project for fair. This needs to be done before the 'possession date' for the counties involved.
Find out the date of the meat goat projects 'pre fair' and 'fair' competitions. File with the OMGP Special Events Coordinator two months prior to this date to request funding for a monetary award to be given to a youth. Awards can be given to anyone you feel deserving, but must be stipulated in your funds request. Examples may be: Champion, Champion and Reserve Champion, split up as in jackpots, Best Showman, etc. It is not up to OMGP Board to know you need funds Organize the youth into finding a 'buyer' situation that will work for your group to purchase the meat goats after fair time. Most of these goats are not going home from fair so need a buyer to pay the youth for their animals and remove them from the fairgrounds.
Use the information below when you go before a group of youth to help promote OMGP as the place to be. Contact the OMGP Board Youth Program Coordinator for more information or help with your projects. You will find contact information for the current person in this position within the monthly OMGP Newsletter.
| Farm | Contact |
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| Cherry Creek Farms Pat & Matt Monroe 99850 Lone Pine Lane Myrtle Point, OR 97458 | Email: plmonroe@wildblue.net Phone: 541-572-0400 |
| OMGP Request for funds |
| Youth Scholarship application |