{"id":330558,"date":"2026-08-26T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:16:08","slug":"new-york-state-fair-highlights-agricultural-achievements-of-local-4-h-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330558\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Fair highlights agricultural achievements of local 4-H youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; The New York State Fair allows young members of local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nys4-h.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nys4-h.org\/\">4-H<\/a> organizations to showcase their agricultural achievements to a massive audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For many successful participants, this major event represents the peak of their hard work at regional county fairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">12-year-old Jake Beers of Sherburne recently made his state fair debut after years of presenting animals at his local Chenango County Fair since the age of four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201c[It was] just really exciting, I guess. I have always wanted to do this ever since I was able to show, so,\u201d Beers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Event organizers explained that the state fair serves as a respected platform celebrating the dedication and success of young farmers across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt took a lot of working with my heifer from 5:30 to 9 at night just practicing and doing all the things you need to do to get it ready,\u201d Beers said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WBNG) &#8212; The New York State Fair allows young members of local 4-H organizations to showcase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-330558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}