Quality Assurance is a pledge or promise that youth producers...

• Provide a food animal product preferred by consumers
• Provide a safe, wholesome food animal product
• Ensure youth producers maintain food safety, animal handling, care, and welfare standards of the livestock industry.

4-H Members must complete a Quality Assurance training to exhibit at the Greene County Fair. This training must be completed by June 1 of the current 4-H year.

Who Should Complete Quality Assurance?

4-H members enrolled in the following projects must complete Quality Assurance:

• Beef (Including Feeders!)
• Dairy (Beef and Goat)
• Goats
• Llamas & Alpacas
• Poultry
• Rabbit
• Sheep
• Swine

Where & When Can I Take This Training?

State Options:

• The Ohio Beef Expo - March 12-16, 2025 - Ohio State Expo Center
  • Must Present a Certificate to the Extension Office
• Ohio 4-H Volunteer Conference - March 8, 2025 - Columbus Convention Center
  • Must Present a Certificate to the Extension Office
• Youth Poultry Clinic (Spring 2025)
  • Must Present a Certificate to the Extension Office
• Ohio 4-H Dairy Palooza - April 12, 2025 - Canfield, Ohio 
  • Must Present a Certificate to the Extension Office
• Ohio 4-H Swine Day (March 2025)
  • Must Present a Certificate to the Extension Office

Local Options:

• Beef Quality Assurance - December 2, 2024 - Extension Office
• More Dates Coming Soon!