2025 Quality Assurance Dates and Times

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Quality Assurance is an Ohio Department of Agriculture requirement that all youth that are exhibiting at the junior fair must complete each year unless they test out. (Exemptions are the following animals being exhibited: Pocket Pet, Cavy, Horse)

DATE	TIME	LOCATION	Quality Assurance
11/6/2024	6:30 p.m.	CCCTC Auditorium	BQA-Only for BEEF Projects-Steer Committee
2/15/2025	9:00am	United High School Auditorium	Hog clinic following at 10:30 and Beef Clinic following approx.   at 11:15)
2/22/2025	10:30 a.m.	Robert Bycroft School	Quality Assurance Training (in conjunction with Rabbit and Poultry Clinics check Jr Fair website for times of clinics)
2/22/2025	10:00a.m.	CCCTC Auditorium	Quality Assurance (in conjunction with Turkey Clinic check Jr Fair website for time of clinic) QA taught by Jamie Stacy
4/12/2025	10:00a.m.	Columbiana County Fairgrounds Government Building	Quality Assurance Training (in conjunction with Dairy Beef Feeder Clinic check Jr Fair website for time of clinic)
5/15/2025	5:30 p.m.	East Fairfield Church	Quality Assurance Training (in conjunction with Goat Clinic check Jr Fair website for time of clinic)

 

No admittance to any Quality Assurance training 10 minutes past start time.

2025 Test Out Date

 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, call Audrey Dimmerling, 4-H Educator to schedule at 330-870-1165. MUST BE COMPLETED BY MAY 1,2025

Test out Guidelines:

• Youth ages 12-14 years of age who pass the QA test out will need to retake the test when they reach the age of 15
• Youth ages 15-18 years of age who pass the QA test can test out of their annual QA program permanently
• All ages are based on a member's 4-H age (the age that they are as of January 1 of the current year)

What will be on the Quality Assurance Test?

This year the test will primarily be over the Good Production Practices 7,8, and 9 but other Good Production Practices will be included.  We are no longer able to have the review session before the test, so we recommend that members study their 4-H project resource books focusing on the Quality Assurance section of the book.

You can also use the following references to study:

• Introduction to Quality Assurance
• Good Production Practices 1
• Good Production Practices 2
• Good Production Practices 3
• Good Production Practices 4
• Good Production Practices 5
• Good Production Practices 6
• Good Production Practices 7
• Good Production Practices 8
• Good Production Practices 9
• Good Production Practice 10

 

If you have any questions, please call the Extension office at 330-424-7291.