Drug Use Notification Forms are required by the Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Revised Code for certain species to be eligible to exhibit. The DUNF is completed online and is now available. These are due by this Friday, Sept. 20th at Noon so we can ensure that everyone who is required to complete a DUNF has one on file. If you are exhibiting a species this is required for it MUST be submitted in to exhibit.
Please refer to the attached instruction sheet to help you through this process. This guide also includes which animals are required to submit a form. If your animal is not listed on the form, you do not need to complete the DUNF. You must submit ONE form PER animal unless your animals are shown in a pen (example meat pen chickens).
The link to complete the DUNF for the Brown County Jr. Fair is: http://go.osu.edu/browndunf
Instructions on how to complete can be found HERE. This includes a list of animal species who are required to complete DUNFs.
ATTENTION PARENTS & EXHIBITORS – You MUST fill out all information correctly on this form. This is a legal document and is REQUIRED to exhibit. The Extension Office CANNOT make any corrections. Please ensure that you are listing your full address, email, name, and carefully entering your animals ID numbers. FULL ID numbers must be used. If we see an error that is correctable, we will send you a link back to your DUNF(s) for you to fix the errors. You MUST use that link to resubmit to be eligible to exhibit. Please note that if you have an automatic disqualification according to ODA, even if it was due to an error, we have NO ability to overturn that decision and you may not be eligible to exhibit. Please take this seriously and be careful as you complete the form.
We have also received questions recently on the Animal Exhibition Rules from ODA and the ORC. You can find these on the ODA website here: https://agri.ohio.gov/divisions/animal-health/Livestock+Exhibitions. These rules are in place for our Junior Fair and must be followed. The Brown County Senior Fair board has not opted out of any rules. On the same page of the ODA website there is an FAQ document that is helpful. The Brown County SFB voted at their Sept. 3rd meeting to not allow part C of Rule 901-19-31 Responsibilities of and assistance to junior fair exhibitors.
A clarifying question was asked recently on when animals must be drug free. Under the Ohio Revised Code that is by the start of that species exhibition. That means by the start of the first show that animal or any animal it could exhibit against is shown. Ex. All hogs must have met the with drawl time of any medication by 8:59am on Monday of the fair prior to the start of the Gilt show since any swine project could be used in showmanship. Beef must have met the with drawl time by the grooming show on Monday.