Committee: Phil Blevins and Lisa Little
GENERAL RULES
- All field crops, tobacco, and vegetables must be entered in the name of the producer on Sunday, September 13, 2026, between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
- Entries must be removed on Sunday, September 20, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
- Only one entry per exhibitor in any class, and all products must be of the current year's growth.
- In any class where there is no competition, a blue ribbon will be awarded (if worthy) and second money paid.
- Any exhibit that deteriorates during the week may be discarded. Premiums will still be awarded and ribbons will be displayed.
- Any person entering 10 items will be awarded a one-day pass to the Fair. Weekly passes will be given to the Best of Show winner in each department.
- Best of Show winners need to pick up weekly passes at the main gate on Monday of the fair.
Departments
Department A — Field Crops and Vegetables
Premiums: First — $5.00 · Second — $3.00 · Third — $2.00
Section I — Open
- Yellow or White Corn Stalks with ear — 3 stalks
- Yellow or White Corn — 3 ears (shucked but shuck attached to ear)
- Popcorn, any variety — 3 ears
- Ornamental Corn — 3 ears
- Irish Potatoes — 3 specimens
- Irish Potato, largest — 1 specimen
- Sweet Potatoes — 3 specimens
- Red Tomatoes, table type, slicing — 3 specimens
- Yellow Tomatoes, table type, slicing — 3 specimens
- Small Novelty Tomatoes — 6 specimens
- Peppers, sweet bell — 3 specimens
- Peppers, banana — 3 specimens
- Peppers, hot — 3 specimens
- Green Beans, snap — 6 specimens
- Pole Beans — 6 specimens
- October Beans — 1 pint
- Beets with tops — 3 specimens
- Broccoli — 1 bunch
- Carrots, with tops — 3 specimens
- Chicken Eggs — 1 dozen in carton
- Chestnuts — 5 specimens
- Sweet Corn, untrimmed, in shuck — 3 ears
- Cucumber, slicing — 3 specimens
- Cucumber, pickling — 3 specimens
- Yellow Onion — 3 specimens
- Red Onions — 3 specimens
- White Onions — 3 specimens
- Pumpkin, any variety, good quality — 1 specimen
- Pumpkin, largest — 1 specimen
- Pumpkin, Jack-O-Lantern type — 1 specimen
- Squash, any variety, good quality — 1 specimen
- Gourd, ornamental display — 3 or more
- Gourd, large type — 1 specimen
- Okra — 3 pods
- Squash, winter type — 1 specimen
- Summer Squash — 3 specimens
- Grapes — 3 bunches
- Sunflower, good quality — 1 head
- Vegetable Plate, exhibitor’s choice — 5 or more specimens
- Watermelon — 1 specimen
- Cantaloupe — 1 specimen
- Honey with comb
- Honey, strained
- Miscellaneous
- Hay, alfalfa — 1 bat in clear plastic bag
- Hay, orchard grass — 1 bat in clear plastic bag
- Hay, Timothy — 1 bat in clear plastic bag
- Hay, mixed grass — 1 bat in clear plastic bag
Section II — Youth
Classes are the same as Section I, for youth under 18 as of the day of the show.
Premiums (paid in addition to ribbons): First — $5.00 · Second — $3.00 · Third — $1.00
Department B — Burley Tobacco
Premiums (paid in addition to ribbons): First — $25.00 · Second — $15.00 · Third — $10.00 · Fourth — $5.00
Class
- Stalks, 3 green, 2026 crop — fresh cut
