September: State Fair of Virginia

Schedule of Events

Please go to this link to view the 2025 Contest Letters.
9/24-25 Student Garden Set-Up

Tire Display Set-Up

9/26 Lawn Tractor Operators (Blue Ribbon Tent)

Small Engines (Best of Show Tent)

Tractor Troubleshooting (Best of Show Tent)

Junior Dairymen's (First Bank Show Ring)

Student Garden Judging

9/29 Horticulture Demonstration (Farm Credit Pavilion)

Agriculture Demonstration (Farm Credit Pavilion)

Career Applications in Horticulture (Farm Credit Pavilion)

Turn in Ag Poster (Farm Credit Pavilion)

9/30 Junior Forester's (Farm Credit Pavilion)

Forestry Field Day (Farm Credit Pavilion)

10/1 Crops (Blue Ribbon Tent)

Middle School Ag Exploration Contest (Blue Ribbon Tent)

10/3 Hippology (Blue Ribbon Tent)

Contest Resources
Native Trees of Virginia Guide
Jr Foresters ID List
Crops ID List
Horticulture Demonstration Rubric
Lawn Tractor Operators Guide
Career Applications in Horticulture: Hazards in the Greenhouse
Career Applications in Horticulture: 2023 Practicum Description
Career Applications in Horticulture: 2023 Practicum Rubric

Tickets

Tickets should be purchased online using the links below.

NOTE: Ticket prices are $6 (this includes all fees/taxes).

Purchasing and Reserving Tickets to the Fair:

In order to enter the fair, teachers will need to purchase or reserve tickets for each day that they plan to attend.

OPTION 1: For those that are paying at time of purchase with credit card (RECOMMENDED), use this link: SFVA Field Trips --- Select *Register* to Pay Now (recommended) or *Reserve* to Pay Later (check) Tickets (etix.com)

When paying with credit card, tickets may be purchased up until the day before the competition day.

OPTION 2: For those that are paying with a check at the gate, use this link: SFVA Field Trips --- Select *Register* to Pay Now (recommended) or *Reserve* to Pay Later (check) Tickets (etix.com). Reservation orders are cut off 4 days prior to the competition.

Additional Information:
Tickets will not run out/ be limited. Any ticket changes to orders must be made 2 days prior to the competition.

Admission tickets need to be selected by day. Multiple days may be purchased in one order.

Ride wristbands are not day specific but only eligible for one week day until 4 pm. They are $20 this year (as opposed to $23.00 last year). Day time ride wristbands will be available inside the fair for purchase at $20.00 on weekdays, good for rides until 4 pm. As such, there is no price increase on ride wristbands this year, so students may purchase their own tickets once inside.

Current State Fair Scholarship Program
The State Fair of Virginia offers several scholarships through the many youth competitions of the Fair. Scholarship funds are held in a State Fair of Virginia, Inc. interest-bearing custody account. Annually, you will receive notice of your current balance. In future years, the balance will include the pro-rated interest that has been earned on your account balance.

When you have enrolled in an accredited college, university, or trade program, the earnings will be paid directly to your student account at your educational institution. To access scholarship funds, after enrolling in school, you will complete the Scholarship Payment Request Form (a copy is enclosed) and submit the form to the school’s registrar’s office. The registrar’s office will then forward the request to the State Fair of Virginia for payment.

Scholarships not used by your 24th birthday will revert from your name back into the State Fair of Virginia Scholarship Fund. You may not request that funds be transferred to another student.

Please visit the state fair website, www.statefairva.org, and click on ‘State Fair Scholarship Program’ (https://www.statefairva.org/p/other/state-fair-of-virginia-scholarship-program) for general scholarship information.