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To enroll in 4-H go to v2.4honline.com or click on the QR code below. If you have never enrolled in 4-H using 4HOnline, click DON’T HAVE AN ACCOUNT and answer the questions. Once you complete your family’s information, click CREATE ACCOUNT. Enter your family’s address information and click VERIFY. Then continue to the section for adding a new member to the family and answer all questions until you finish and pay. If you already were in 4-H and have a 4HOnline account, go the website or click the QR code and enter your email address and password to sign in. Click the blue +ADD MEMBER button to add a new member, then select the program the member is joining. Click NEXT. Complete the information about the member and click NEXT. Continue answering the questions until you click FINISH and get to the payment section. You can pay online!
Attention 4th-12th graders! Do you want to learn how to make fun items for yourself, as gifts, or to donate to others? Do you like to work with your hands! If so, join our Lafourche Parish 4-H SEWcial Club! Club members will learn lots of stitching and sewing skills, sewing safety, and create fun projects! Use the QR code below to register! Non-refundable yearly membership dues are $25 and include a t-shirt. The first meeting of the year will be held on Tuesday, September 9th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Ag Building in Raceland (115 Texas Street). Please have at least one adult attend with the student. Dues can be brought to the meeting or dropped off or mailed to: Lafourche 4-H Foundation, Attn: SEWcial Club, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA 70394. You can call the 4-H Office for more information. Hurry! Space is limited!
SEWcial Club QR Code
Robots are all around us! From our foods to our cars, robots make our lives easier, efficient, and fun! If you are interested in learning how to design, build, and program robots, complete the Lafourche 4-H Robotics interest survey using the QR code below as soon as possible. Space is limited! The first meeting of the year is Wednesday, September 10th from 5:30 P.M.-7:00 P.M. in the Ag Building, 115 Texas Street, Raceland. Non-refundable yearly dues are $25 and include a club t-shirt! We have several additional robots to program this year! We are also planning to incorporate eSports into our club this year and are seeking an interested adult volunteer to assist with eSports! Please contact Mrs. Suzanne at 985-446-1316 or email her at stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu if you are interested!
Robotics QR Code
Wanted: Awesome 4-H adult volunteers! Are you an adult interested in helping the Lafourche Parish 4-H Youth Development Program? If so, 4-H wants YOU! Interested adults are invited to our 4-H Volunteer Roundup Interest Meeting on Monday, September 15th at 5:30 P.M. at the Ag Building, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA. We have volunteer opportunities in cooking, sewing, livestock, shooting sports, public speaking, fundraising, equine, Junior Leaders, Robotics, and so much more! We hope to see you there! Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by registering with the QR code below to let us know you will be attending!
Volunteer Roundup QR Code
Join 4-H'ers around the country in celebrating National 4-H Week during the week of Oct. 5-11, 2025. The school week kicks off on Monday, October 6th with National Go Green Day! Schools and clubs are encouraged to celebrate the beginning of National 4-H Week on this day! This week is set aside by the Cooperative Extension Service and 4-H Clubs in each state to focus attention on the value of 4-H.Through their 4-H clubs, they have fun, make friends, explore new adventures, and develop skills for future success! Louisiana engages more than 113,000 youth in areas including agriculture, STEM, healthy living, leadership and the environment! Lafourche Parish has approximately 900 members in 35 school 4-H clubs. Observed since 1927, National 4-H Week has been a time for 4-H members and their volunteer leaders to celebrate all that is wonderful in 4-H! To celebrate the week, we are sponsoring a Show Your 4-H Pride Contest. We would like each club to create a display to put outside in front of your school. The theme is Beyond Ready. Some of the things the judges will look for are creativity, involvement of the 4-H’ers, appeal, and originality. We want the community to see them, so be creative! We will award First Place and Honorable Mention for each division (Elementary, Middle, Senior, and K-12).Judging begins on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.More details will be sent to leaders.
Calling all 4-H school club officers and leaders! The Lafourche Parish4-H Executive Committee Elections and Officer and Leader Training will be held on Thursday, October 9, 2025, at the Ag Building in Raceland. Each school may send two voting delegates and officers. If you want to run for a parish office, you must be a voting delegate from your school, and we must receive your application electronically sent to stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu in the 4-H Office by September 30, 2025.4-H’ers who are in the 4th – 12th grade may run for office. Please see your 4-H leader for more details and an application.
Please call the 4-H Office at 446-1316 as soon as possible if you are a new exhibitor interested in showing livestock or horses in 4-H during this school year so you can receive information on any upcoming events. There are important deadlines that need to be met and are posted on the website. Possession dates for each species are as follows:
As in past years, all market animals and commercial breeding animals are required to be validated through a process of collecting hair samples. The animals are then tagged and “validated”. You will be responsible for contacting the 4-H office to get your validation kits, validating your own animals, and returning the kits to our office with your fees before November 10, 2025, for commercial beef, commercial dairy, market lambs, commercial ewes, market goats and commercial does. Market and commercial hogs will have to be validated before December 1, 2025, using the same process. If you need assistance or have any questions, please call Abbie Halley at the 4-H office at 985-446-1316.
Are you interested in Air Rifle, BB, Shotgun, Rifle, Archery, Hunting Skills, or Muzzleloading? If so, come see what it is all about! A Lafourche Parish 4-H Shooting Sports Registration Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 4th, at 5:30 P.M. at the Ag Building in Raceland. All interested members should attend with a parent. There will also be a field day on September 27th at 5:30 P.M. at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Rifle Range in Raceland to see the disciplines in action! Please see the Lafourche 4-H Facebook Page for more details.
Attention 4-H Teens! As a club composed of 4-H members at least 13 years of age from throughout the parish, our Lafourche Parish Junior Leader Club focuses on being involved in community service as well as having fun as a group! Helping at parish 4-H events is an annual task completed by many of our Junior Leaders. If interested in joining the club, please make every effort to attend the first meeting on September 18th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Ag. Building in Raceland (115 Texas Street).Non-refundable yearly dues are $20 (payable to Lafourche 4-H Foundation), which include the Junior Leader T-shirt. Don’t forget to bring a friend to join in the fun!
Create a poster that shows your 4-H Spirit and love of Lafourche 4-H! The guidelines for the contest are (1) Poster must be an 11 x 14 white poster board. No foam boards. (2) Do not attach anything to the poster that is more than ½ “thick. (3) Be sure to place your name, grade, and school on the back of the poster in the upper right-hand corner. The posters will be picked up at the October club meetings or can be dropped off at the 4-H Office. Recognition and awards are in the following divisions: Elementary Division- 4th – 5th grade; Middle School Division- 6th – 8th grade; and High School Division- 9th – 12th grade. Purple, blue, and red ribbons will be awarded. Every 4-H club member that makes a poster will receive a ribbon! Everyone’s a winner!
Join us for the first ever Lafourche Parish 4-H Shooting Sports Fall Classic! It’s a 3-D Archery open shoot being held on September 28, 2025, at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office Shooting Range, 3451 Hwy. 182, Raceland. Registration opens September 15th and is open to all youth (9 years and older) and adults interested in competing and do not need to be 4-H or Shooting Sports members. Registration will be posted on the Lafourche Parish 4-H Facebook page. If you or your business is interested in being a sponsor for the event, please contact Mrs. Suzanne Troxclair at 985-446-1316 or email stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu for more information. Don’t miss this fun archery competition!
What’s a great theme for 4-H Summer Camp?4th – 6th graders can send in your most creative ideas for a slogan that is brief and “catchy,” capturing the spirit of 4-H Camp—in 7 words or less along with illustrations. Illustrations must accompany the phrase and will be part of the contest. The winner will receive a $50 monetary award, and it will be used on all publicity for camp and on the camp T-shirt. Think fast...the deadline is October 31st. Your submission must include your full name, grade, age, parish and 4-H Club, complete mailing address, and phone number. Individuals may submit multiple entries (please submit together) by this date to Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center, Camp Catch Phrase, 3000 Hwy. 8, Pollock, LA, 71467, or email to CampGrantWalker@agcenter.lsu.edu.
Challenge Camp will be held for 7th and 8th graders on November 18-19, 2025, at the Acadian Baptist Center, Eunice, LA, for 12 4-H club members. Priority will be given to first-time campers. The cost is $125 and is non-refundable. Transportation will be provided. Please submit your registration and $125 non-refundable payment to the 4-H Office by October 25th.Remember spots are limited! Call the office for more information.
4-H’ers throughout Lafourche Parish participated in the Garden Contest last spring. They selected a site, made rows, planted their crops, kept records, and picked their harvest. Winners of the 2025 Garden Contest were 1st Place – Jessie-Lynn Rivere, Lockport Middle School, 2nd Place – Alexandra Jolly, Bayou Blue Upper Elementary, 3rd Place – Iyron Cheramie, Holy Rosary Catholic School and Honorable Mention – Jonah Curole, Holy Rosary Catholic School, Logan Curole, E. D. White Catholic High, and Drake Durocher, St. Charles Elementary School. Congratulations to all who participated!
The State Horse Show was held at the Beauregard covered arena in DeRidder from July 8-11, 2025.Lafourche was well represented at the show with the following winners Gracyn Guidry, St. Charles - High Point Timed Events, Stake Race 1st Place, Pole Bending 1st Place & Barrel Racing 4th Place, 13 & under,; Reserve High Point – Timed Events, Stake Race 2nd Place, Pole Bending 2nd Place, & Barrel Racing 5th Place, 13 & under, Olivia Nelton, Raceland Upper; Vera Trosclair, Chackbay – Stake Race 7th Place, Pole Bending 5th Place, Barrel Racing 6th Place 13 & under & Ranch/Team Sorting 4th Place, All Ages; Adele Stein, Central Lafourche – Stake Race 3rd Place 14 & over; Emily Rodrigue, Larose-Cut Off – Stake Race 4th Place & Barrel Racing 7th Place, 14 & over; McKenzie Spaulding, North Larose – Pole Bending 4th Place, Stake Race 5th Place & Barrel Racing 2nd Place, 13 & under; Alyssa Rodrigue, Lockport Middle – Barrel Racing 1st Place 13 & under and Alexis Lyons, Central Lafourche – Pole Bending 4th Place & Barrel Racing 4th Place, 14 & over.
We also have a Southern Regional 4-H Horse Show Winner! Alyssa Rodrigue competed in the Southern Regional 4-H Horse Championships in Perry, Georgia, and won 3rd overall in Pole Bending, Champion Barrel racer, and received Reserve Champion High Point for the Speed Events! Congratulations to all on a job well done!
Congratulations to the following members who were chosen to represent Louisiana 4-H as State Ambassadors and Leadership Board Members: Equine Ambassador-Adele Stein; Shooting Sports Ambassadors-Madelyn Fossum and Connor Hitt; Fashion Board-Izabella Clement. We are so proud of you!
4-H University which was held June 17-20, 2025, on the campus of Louisiana State University. Lafourche Parish was proudly represented by 29 competitors who won 53 medals in various contests from Fishing Sports to Poultry Judging, and even Up-Cycled Fashion! Our Fishing Sports and Meat ID teams were State Champions! The Fishing Sports team won the Louisiana 4-H Educational trip and it consisted of Dane Durocher, 1st Place individual and Cameron Legendre, 9th Place Individual, from Central Lafourche and Rana Orgeron, Member-at-Large. Madelyn Fossum, 2nd Place individual; Kale Guidry, 3rd Place individual; Reese Borne, 4th Place individual and Olivia Richard, 5th Place individual from Central Lafourche were awarded a trip to compete in the National Meat Id Contest in Manhattan, Kansas, for their 1st place Team award. Mikalia Himel, Sixth Ward Middle, 5th Place, Civic Engagement Illustrated Talk; Rhylee Gros, Val St. Mary High, 6th Place, Consumer Decision Making; Adele Stein, 4th Place individual, Reese Borne, 5th Place individual, Anthony Plaisance, 7th Place individual and Jaiden Porche, 8th Place individual and they were awarded 2nd Place team were all from Central Lafourche High; Izabella Clement, E. D. White, 5th Place, Fashion Review-Upcycled; Anthony Plaisance, 6th Place individual; Reese Borne, Aubre Leger and Adele Stein, Central Lafourche, 2nd Place Horse Judging Team; Tristan Pertuit, 4th Place individual & 4th Place Team, St. Mary Nativity, Chandler Eschette, Connor Hitt and Thomas Williams, Central Lafourche, 4th Place Team; Outdoor Skills; Reese Borne, 6th Place individual & 2nd Place Team, Jerney Le, 7th Place individual & 2nd Place Team, Madelyn Fossum, 8th Place individual & 2nd Place Team, Toni Arnold, 10th Place Individual & 2nd Place Team, Kale Guidry, 4th Place Team; Adele Stein, 4th Place Team & Connor Hitt, 4th Place Team, Poultry Judging, all from Central Lafourche and Rylun Guidry, 4th Place Poultry Team from South Lafourche High; Macaylee Brown & Brayden Durocher, Thibodaux High & Aubrey Burton, Val South, 2nd Place Robotics Team; Gabrielle Keehn, Thibodaux Middle, Aubrey Keehn & Brooklyn Abraham, Thibodaux High and Tristan Pertuit, St. Mary’s Nativity, 3rd Place Robotics Team.
Congratulations to all 4-H’ers who represented Lafourche Parish at 4-H University!
Congratulations to the following 4-H’ers from Lafourche who excelled in the State Records Contest. Members and awards received:
As we embark on a new school year, we are excited to share all that 4-H has to offer! In line with our national theme of Beyond Ready, we will explore opportunities in 4-H to help you become Beyond Ready for school, for work, for life--and everything that comes with it! We can’t wait to share all of the opportunities in 4-H at the September club meetings!
For more information contact Suzanne Troxclair (stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu) or Abbie Halley (ahalley@agcenter.lsu.edu) at the Lafourche Parish LSU AgCenter Office, 115 Texas Street, Raceland, Louisiana 70394, Phone: 985-446-1316.
