Marion County Fair

Marion County Farm Bureau would like to encourage everyone to visit the Marion County Fair June 30 through July 5. Check out this year’s schedule of Farm Bureau sponsored events!

New for 2025, Marion County Farm Bureau is sponsoring stall signs for exhibitors to display during fair week. This sign gives exhibitors access to exclusive add-on money for their project. Signs can be reserved until Monday, June 2, online or by calling the office at 419- 747-7488.

Continuing is the Feed Sack Decorating Contest where you, either individually or with a team, decorate a feed sack with an agriculture-related theme to be judged. The Feed Sack Decorating Contest will use the fair’s 2025 theme of Under the Big Top! The Feed Sack Decorating Contest judging will begin at 2:15 p.m. Friday, July 4, in Evers Arena. Winners will be announced at 3 p.m. that day before Barnyard Olympics. Participants can pick up their feed sack to begin decorating after 11 a.m. on Monday at the Junior Fair Board Office. There are team and individual divisions. Teams are two or more people in the same individual division. Individual divisions are as follows: 8-year-olds and under, 9 to 10-year-olds, 11 to 13-year-olds, 14 to 15-year-olds, 16 to 18-year-olds, and 19-year-olds and older. There will be cash prizes for individual winners and milkshake tickets for team winners!

Barnyard Olympics is a fun obstacle course that will begin Friday, July 4, at 3 p.m. in Evers Arena. Registration begins at 2:15 p.m., so teams can check in to receive their numbered tags. All participants will receive a free milkshake voucher to the 4-H Milkshake Stand!

Come and join all the fun happening at this year’s Marion County Fair. Marion County Farm Bureau is a gold sponsor and a proud supporter of the Junior Fair and would like to wish good luck to all of the participants showing their livestock and home projects at the fair.

New and beginning farmers
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Greg McGlinch

Darke County Farm Bureau

Growing Tomorrow Grant
We’re just so thankful for the Farm Bureau and the foundation for helping put this together. And of course, the Boyert family for the vision they had with this grant. It’s jumping us forward 10 years. It’s unbelievable.
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Nathan and Jill Parriman

Clermont County Farm Bureau

Bringing the farm back to life
I could not have done it without the resources I have found through Farm Bureau.
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Gretchan Francis

Trumbull County Farm Bureau

Youth pathways in Farm Bureau
It wasn’t until I joined the Wilmington College Collegiate Farm Bureau that I truly saw how my passion could translate into leadership, advocacy and a career.
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Wyatt Morrow

Clinton County Farm Bureau

Giving farmers a voice
The issue of property taxation remains as one of the biggest challenges our members face today. Ensuring agricultural property is valued for its agricultural potential and not development is critical to the continued success of Ohio agriculture.
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Matt Aultman

Darke County Farm Bureau

Select Partner Program
Through the Select Partner program, we became educated in farm insurance and weren't just selling policies. It became more and more clear why farmers need an advocate like Ohio Farm Bureau.
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Chad Ruhl

Farm manager, CSI Insurance

Advocacy
So many of the issues that OFBF and its members are advocating for are important to all Ohioans. I look at OFBF as an agricultural watchdog advocating for farmers and rural communities across Ohio.
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Mary Smallsreed

Trumbull County Farm Bureau

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