Entry Forms, Rules & Important Dates

The Skill-A-Thon is MANDATORY for all Large Livestock exhibitors (Swine, Steer & Heifers). If you are showing both swine & beef, you are required to attend and participate in BOTH skill-a-thons. There is a $100.00 fine for any exhibitor that does not attend the appropriate skill-a-thon.

Skill-a-thon location: Ag Center Auditorium

Times by age division are as follows:

10:00 am - Junior Swine Exhibitors

10:45 am - Junior Beef Exhibitors

11:30 am - Intermediate Beef Exhibitors

12:30 pm - Intermediate Swine Exhibitors

1:30 pm - Senior Swine Exhibitors

2:15pm- Senior Beef Exhibitors

times are tentative subject to change depending on # of exhibitors and age divisions

2023 Topic: Health Care Management. Please read the Skill-a-thon Information sheet in the front of your Fair issued Record Book for full details

If you are an exhibitor of a swine, steer or beef heifer at the Putnam County Fair you must attend one of these meetings, to be eligible to show your animal at the fair.

Mandatory meeting location: Fairgrounds Expo Hall (subject to change per local, state or federal mandates).

** If you cannot attend the meeting for your designated age group, you MUST contact Heather Pogue (386-329-0318) and she will discuss options and possibility of attending another meeting**

*Ages below are as of Sept. 1, 2022

JUNIOR MEETING - ages 8-10, Mon., Jan. 30, 2023 @ 6pm

INTERMEDIATE MEETING - ages 11-13, Thu Feb 9, 2023 @ 6pm

SENIOR MEETING - ages 14 and over, Tu Feb 21, 2023 @ 6pm

Cattle Exhibitor Meeting

Saturday, Mar. 18, 2023 @ 7pm, (weigh-in day) Fairgrounds Arena

Swine Exhibitor Meeting

Monday, Mar. 20, 2023 @ 7pm, Fairgrounds Arena

Monday, June 5, 2023 @ 6pm