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Please join Lafourche Parish 4-H in welcoming our newest 4-H Agent, Miss Toni Cortez! A Southeast Louisiana native and proud former Lafourche Parish 4-H member, Miss Toni earned a bachelor’s degree in Plant and Soil Systems from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in Marine and Environmental Biology from Nicholls State University. Toni brings experience in STEM education, outreach, and leadership through her work as a clinical researcher with ICON plc, a teaching assistantship at Nicholls State University, and as an intern with the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program. Because 4-H played such an important role in her childhood, she is excited to return to the program in a professional capacity and give back to the community that helped shape her. In her free time, Toni enjoys reading, crafting, gaming, and spending time with loved ones and her pets. She looks forward to serving the youth and families of Lafourche Parish through the 4-H program.
On August 27th, the Lafourche Parish 4-H family gathered in the Ag Building to share some of the many opportunities 4-H has to offer to youth and adults from throughout the parish. Attendees were able to visit with youth and adult 4-H volunteers who shared their knowledge of various 4-H programs and opportunities in an open house format. Through the food drive, Lafourche 4-H was able to donate to the local food bank to address food insecurity in the parish. An event of this magnitude would not be possible without all the many volunteers who created table displays, helped with set-up, and shared their love and knowledge of all things 4-H with our parish families. Thank you to all who attended and who made the event possible. Congratulations to Raceland Upper Elementary and Chackbay Elementary for winning the attendance contest! Their 4-H clubs will receive treats at their next 4-H meetings for the greatest number of attendees at the event! We can’t wait to see all our new members and their families at this year’s 4-H events!
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 to the website or click the QR code and enter your email address and password to sign in. Click ENROLL NOW to re-enroll or the blue +ADD MEMBER button to add a new member, then select the school 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. Paying online is quick and easy!
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 10th from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Ag. Building in Raceland (115 Texas Street).Non-refundable yearly dues are $25 (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!
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 17th, at 5:30 P.M. at the Ag Building in Raceland. All interested members should attend with a parent. This is a very important meeting for both youth and adults. There will also be a field day on September 19th at 4:00 P.M. at the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Rifle Range in Raceland to see the disciplines in action! More details will be shared on the Lafourche Parish 4-H Facebook Page.
Ready to level up your skills? Join the Lafourche Parish 4-H Robotics & eSports Club! Participants in grades 4-12 will explore the exciting worlds of robotics, coding, teamwork, strategy, and competitive gaming in a fun, hands-on environment. Whether you're interested in building and programming robots, competing in eSports challenges, or developing STEM and technology skills for the future, this club offers opportunities to learn, create, and connect with others who share your interests. No experience is necessary! Complete the Lafourche 4-H Robotics/eSports interest survey using the QR code here. The first meeting is Wednesday, September 23rd from 5:30 P.M.-7 P.M. in the Ag Building, 115 Texas Street, Raceland. Non-refundable yearly dues are $25 and include a club T-shirt! Please contact Mrs. Suzanne at 985-446-1316 or email her at stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu for more information!
2026-2027 Lafourche Parish 4-H Robotics/eSports Club
Attention all members! Join our 4-H SEWcial Club to learn how to make fun items for yourself, as gifts, or to donate to others! Club members will learn lots of stitching and sewing skills, sewing safety, and create fun projects! Use the QR code here to register! Non-refundable yearly membership dues are $25 and include a T-shirt. The first meeting of the year will be held on Monday, September 28th from 5:30 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. in the Ag Building in Raceland (115 Texas Street). Please have one adult attend with the student. Pay dues at the meeting or mail to: Lafourche 4-H Foundation, Attn: SEWcial Club, 115 Texas St., Raceland, LA 70394. You can call the 4-H Office for more information.
2026-2027 Lafourche Parish 4-H SEWcial Club Registration
Join 4-H'ers around the country in celebrating National 4-H Week during the week of Oct. 4-10, 2026. The school week kicks off on Monday, October 5th 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 800 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 6, 2026.More details will be sent to club 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 8, 2026, 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, 2026.4-H’ers who are in the 4th – 12th grade may run for office. Information packets will be sent to 4-H leaders. 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”. The validation process is a bit different this year, as your 4-H agent must be present during validation procedures. To make this happen, we have decided to host a "Validation Drive-Through," event at the 4-H office. During the event, exhibitors will bring their show animals to the office. Hair samples and validation fees will be collected, and ear tags will be administered.
We are planning to host the Validation Drive-Through events on:
Please contact Toni Cortez by emailing tcortez@agcenter.lsu.edu to let us know what day you plan to attend. Animals must be validated and entered in 4-H online by the possession deadlines listed above. These are hard deadlines, so we recommend completing your 4-H online entries early! If you need assistance or have any questions, please call Toni Cortez at the 4-H office at 985-446-1316.
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 by October 13th.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 in Lafourche 4-H!
Challenge Camp will be held for 7th and 8th graders on November 17-18, 2026, at the Acadian Baptist Center, Eunice, LA, for 12 4-H club members. Priority will be given to first-time campers. A waiting list will be kept in the event of open spots. The cost is $100 and is non-refundable. Transportation will be provided. Please submit your registration and $100 non-refundable payment to the 4-H Office by October 26th.Remember, spots are limited! Call the office to register or for more information.
SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE!
Congratulations to Gracyn Guidry of Thibodaux Middle School for winning Jr. High Speed Champion and to Olivia Nelton of Raceland Middle School for winning Jr. High Speed Reserve Champion at the LSU AgCenter’s State Horse Show! Congratulations to Senior rider and Louisiana 4-H Equine Ambassador Adele Stein for capturing 3rd place after a three-way tie for Champion! We are LaFourche Proud!
Congratulations to the Louisiana 4-H Shooting Sports Team for capturing the National Championship again this year! The Louisiana 4-H team has won six of the last seven championships! Lafourche Parish 4-H was honored to have two marksmen on this award-winning team! Congratulations to Logan Benoit of E. D. White Catholic High School and Joel Orgeron of the Member-at-Large Club for their individual and team honors! Logan Benoit was a part of the Smallbore Rifle Team that captured 2nd Place Overall. Benoit was the 8th place individual on the team that placed 2nd in CMP and 3-Position and 1st in Silhouette. Benoit, placing 1st individually in Silhouette, made history by breaking the individual national record with a score of 43/50! Joel Orgeron was a member of the Hunting Skills National Team that captured 1st Place Overall! Orgeron also received individual honors, securing 2nd Place in Overall Individual competition. Congratulations to these two outstanding marksmen! Benoit and Orgeron were honored, along with National Championship Team members from 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, at the Louisiana 4-H National Shooting Sports Champions Recognition Banquet hosted by the Louisiana 4-H Youth Development Program and Louisiana 4-H Foundation on August 29th.
4-H’ers throughout Lafourche Parish participated in the Garden Contest in the spring. They selected a site, made rows, planted their crops, kept records, and picked their harvest. Winners of the 2026 Garden Contest were: 1st Place – Jessie-Lynn Rivere, Lockport Middle School, 2nd Place – Daniel Stewart, III, eLearning Academy, 3rd Place – Iyron Cheramie, Holy Rosary Catholic School, 4th Place – Aviana Cheramie, Holy Rosary Catholic School, and Honorable Mention – Owen Crochet, Lockport Upper Elementary, and Jonah Curole & Logan Curole, E. D. White Catholic High. Many thanks to the La-Terre Master Gardeners for donating t-shirts to our winners! Congratulations to these winners and to all who participated!
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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- Connor Hitt, Thomas Williams & Logan Benoit; Fashion Board-Izabella Clement; Livestock Ambassador-Reese Borne and STEM Board-Gabrielle Keehn. We are so proud of you!
4-H University which was held June 23-26, 2026, on the campus of Louisiana State University. Lafourche Parish was proudly represented by 30 competitors who won 28 medals in various contests from Fishing Sports to Poultry Judging, and even Up-Cycled Fashion! Winners are as follows: 4-H Has Talent-Hudson Plaisance, 9th Place; Ag Products Identification- Jaxon Arnold, 4th Place; Civic Engagement Illustrated Talk-Hudson Plaisance, 10th Place; eSports-Iyron Cheramie, Jonah Curole & Bransen Friel, 3rd Place Team; Upcycled Fashion-Izabella Clement, 2nd Place; Livestock Judging-Reese Borne, 3rd Individual & 3rd Place Team, Adele Stein, 10th Place Individual & 3rd Place Team, Madelyn Fossum, 3rd Place Team, and Jerney Le, 3rd Place Team; Outdoor Skills-Tristan Pertuit, 9th Place Individual & 5th Place Team, Luke Trahan, 5th Place Team, & Thomas Williams, 5th Place Team; Photography-Sarah Chu, 7th Place; Poultry Judging-Kale Guidry, 4th Place Individual & 2nd Place Team, Rylun Guidry, 8th Place Individual & 2nd Place Team, and Adele Stein, 7th Place Individual & 2nd Place Team; Public Speaking(Any Other)- Brooklyn Abraham, 8th Place, and Toni Arnold, 3rd Place; Public Speaking Cooperatives-Madelyn Fossum, 3rd Place; Zero Turn Mower-Cameron Legendre, 4th Place.
Congratulations to all 4-H’ers who represented Lafourche Parish at 4-H University! We are so proud of you!
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
Show your 4-H pride with official Lafourche Parish 4-H merchandise! We have yard signs for $10, buttons for $1 (small), $2 (medium), and $3 (large), and decals for $3 available for purchase. Decals are available for 4-H, Lafourche 4-H, all project clubs, and 4-H alums! Whether you want to support your 4-H member, celebrate your involvement, or promote 4-H in your community, there is something for everyone. 4-H merch will be sold at all 4-H parish events! Stop by and grab your favorite 4-H gear while supplies last. Every purchase helps spread the 4-H spirit and showcase the positive impact of 4-H youth across Lafourche Parish!
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 the opportunities in 4-H at the September club meetings!
You can also visit our Lafourche Parish 4-H Facebook page for updates. We are always open to suggestions, so if there is something you think we should add to our website that would help, please feel free to let us know. For more information on any of the activities listed, please contact Suzanne Troxclair at stroxclair@agcenter.lsu.edu or Toni Cortez at tcortez@agcenter.lsu.edu or call 985-446-1316.
