Before You Register:
4-H Enrollment
Head to http://mn.4honline.com to sign up for 4-H, re-enroll, or make any changes to your contact information. Please make sure everything is up to date and current on your member profile before you begin fair registration.
Animal ID’s
Animals must be ID’ed online by May 15 (February 15 for Market Beef) . Late animal entries will be ineligible to receive State Fair Trips and purple ribbon or higher awards. 4-H ear tags are required on market beef and commercial females, dairy steers, meat and dairy market goats, sheep (except registered ewes), gilts and barrows. See http://z.umn.edu/animalidinfo for more information.
Registration Important Notes
Final Deadline: June 9
Registration tells us which projects you would like to exhibit at the fair. Head to the projects section of this website to read the information and requirements for each project. Be sure to read this thoroughly for each project you are entering.
Pre-register for classes by June 9 online. Entries received after this date are not eligible for MN 4-H State Trips, purple ribbons, or higher awards and may not be included in printed materials (show catalogs, back tags, etc). Registration errors are the member's responsibility and may result in penalties.
Deadlines, Consequences, and One-Time Exemption - Every Minnesota 4-H member is eligible for a "one-time" member exemption. This exemption provides the ability one-time in a 4-H member's career for the 4-H member to acknowledge they missed a 4-H deadline related to enrollment or competitive event participation and waive the consequences for the named deadline. Some restrictions apply; please contact office staff for more information and procedure.
Exhibits will be judged in the classes they were pre-registered for only; judges will not switch projects to a different class. Please choose your classes carefully and contact the office for help. It is the member’s responsibility to choose the proper class for their project.
You need to sign up each project you are bringing. Enter the project as many times as the number of projects you are bringing (check for limits). For example, if you plan on bringing two scrapbook projects, you will need to add that project in the online registration twice.
There are no penalties for signing up for a project you don't end up bringing to the fair, but there is a penalty if you sign up for a project after the deadline is passed. For this reason, be sure to sign up for anything you might potentially bring on your initial registration and then contact the office later if you know you wont be participating.
Project specific reminders:
Clothing/Fashion Revue: Signing up for Clothes You Buy does not automatically enter you into Fashion Revue; you need to sign up for this separately!
Livestock: Remember that even if showmanship and interviews are required for your livestock project, you still need to sign up for it on your registration in order to have your name in the judge’s book and show program
Livestock: If you are not sure at registration time which animal you will be showing at the fair, please choose the one that is most likely. Staff will have the ability to change the animal for you (with no penalties) up to and including at check-in at the fair as long as it's ID'ed. Calling/emailing as soon as you know a change needs to be made will help to expedite the check-in process at the fair.
Communication/Video Entries: You will need to sign up for a time-slot for judging in addition to registering the project. See premium book for further instructions.
Auction: Use the menu at the top to register for the blue ribbon auction You can sign up multiple animals and then narrow the options down later at the fair.
Special Considerations
Our goal is to make County Fair a positive learning experience for all youth. Sometimes there are considerations and requests that we need to be aware of in order to make this possible. If you have any of these, please fill out a “special considerations” form to let us know! These forms can be found online at: http://z.umn.edu/specialconsiderations. For more information see: http://z.umn.edu/4Haccessibility.
Step-by-Step Instructions
When you’re ready to register for the fair, head online to:
Click on “Sign in with 4HOnline”. This will bring up a popup window - watch for pop-up blocker notices and/or a hidden window.
In the popup window you’ll need to enter your 4HOnline login email and password (or this is an opportunity to request a forgotten password).
If this is your FIRST TIME logging in, you will see a welcome screen:
Click “Register an Exhibitor”
Click on “Individual”
Click on the 4-H member you are registering and click on “Continue”
The next step is to create entries:
Click “Continue to Entries”, then “Add an Entry” to proceed
Select the desired Department and Division
Click on “choose”
At this point, the registration option you see will depend on the Class being entered. For general/static exhibits:
Your club should be pre-selected on the left-hand side, double check the information and change if necessary.
Check the box to the left of the desired Class
Change the Quantity as desired (keeping any class limits in mind)
Click “Continue” at the top when you’ve selected all applicable classes.
Review Entries and then click on “Create Entries”
For livestock entries, you can add multiple entries for an animal using the following steps:
Select the animal to be entered from the list of animals previously ID’ed by your family in 4HOnline
If this is the first time entering this particular animal, it must be “added” to the screen, by clicking on “Add Animal”.
Once the animal is listed, click on the radio button to select it.
Then, choose the Class(es) that this animal will be entered into
Click on [Continue] to review entries
Click on [Create Entries] to complete the process.
- In some cases you may run into errors or situations where you cannot proceed. If you see a “blue” button or information, follow the instructions to complete the tasks indicated. Most often, it will be a question about entering the animal into the auction.
- Review the entry and then click “Continue”
- Click “Add another Entry” to continue adding entries
- Click “Register another Exhibitor” to change to another family member
- Click “Continue to Payment” (there are no fees or payments needed, but this step is required to complete your registration)
- If you select “Continue to Payment”, to submit the registrations for the whole family, follow the steps as prompted to submit the “invoice”
- Once an invoice has been submitted, it will automatically be approved so that you can go back to submit additional invoices. Staff will manually approve all invoices at a later time, and follow up with you if there are any errors or concerns.
- You can log back in at any time to review entries previously created.
- If you select “Continue to Payment”, to submit the registrations for the whole family, follow the steps as prompted to submit the “invoice”
Invoice un-submitted
- You can continue adding or completing entries on that invoice (click the “edit” button next to the 4-H’ers name).
- Entries cannot be changed, but they can be deleted from an un-submitted invoice
Invoice submitted and approved
- Prior to June 10, you can add new entries by starting a new invoice.
- Previously submitted entries can be reviewed but cannot be deleted or changed. Please contact the office to make any changes or deletions.