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71st Annual Grimes County Fair

Arts and Entertainment

February 2, 2023

From: Grimes County Fair

Schedule:

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

5:00 p.m: Check?in Leadline
6:00 p.m: Leadline will start
6:00 p.m: Check?in Team Penning and Team Sorting
7:00 p.m: Team Penning and Team Sorting will start

Thursday, June 1, 2023

5:00 p.m: Check?in Speed Events
6:00 p.m: Check?in Top Hand
6:00 p.m: Speed Events will start
7:00 p.m: Top Hand will start

Friday, June 2, 2023

7:00 a.m - 10:00 p.m: Open for Pen Set?up (no steers may set up until Saturday after Heifer show)
6:00 p.m: Check?in Working Cow/Reining and Ranch Trail
7:00 p.m: Working Cow/Reining and Ranch Trail will start

Saturday, June 3, 2023

7:00 a.m - 8:00 a.m: Move?In and Check?In In?County Beef Heifers
6:00 a.m - 3:00 p.m: Open for Pen Set?up
8:00 a.m - 10:00 a.m: Check?In Creative Arts (Baked goods, Horticulture and Food Preservation)
9:00 a.m: Judge In?County Beef Heifer Show. All heifers will be released following the conclusion of the In?County Beef Heifer Show. All In?County beef projects must be removed by 2:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m: Check?in Kid’s Rodeo
10:00 a.m: Kid’s Rodeo
12:30 p.m: Judge Creative Arts (Baked goods, Horticulture and Food Preservation)
1:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m: Steer exhibitors may set up at this time
6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m: Lions Club Opens (Sale of Food Prep Items and Produce and Display of Results)
6:30 p.m: Crowning of the 2023 Fair Queen
8:00 p.m: Kick?Off Dance in the Main Hall

Sunday, June 4, 2023

6:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m: Move?In all Market Animals (except Poultry, Rabbits and Pen of 3 Heifers)
12:00 p.m: All Gates Will Be Closed At This Time To Market Animals
2:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m: Sale of food preparation and food preservation and results of creative arts projects in the Lions Club Building
1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m: Weigh?in Steers
3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m: Weigh?in Lambs and Goats
4:30 p.m - 6:00 p.m: Weigh?in and Classify Swine
5:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m: Move?In Ag Mechanics
7:00 p.m: Rodeo

Monday, June 5, 2023

8:00 a.m - 10:00 a.m: Creative Arts Check?In (Crafts, Fine Arts, Photography, Quilts, Needlework and Sewing)
8:00 a.m - 9:00 a.m: Move?In/Check?In Broilers and Turkeys
9:30 a.m: Judge Market Turkeys followed by Market Broilers
12:30 p.m: Judge Creative Arts (Crafts, Fine Arts, Photography, Quilts, Needlework and Sewing)
4:00 p.m: Judge Market Lamb Show followed by Market Goat Show approx. 30 minutes after the Market Lamb Show
6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m: Lions Club opens for creative arts results

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

8:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m: Move?In Pen of 3 Heifers. Pen of 3 Heifers Record Books due.
8:30 a.m: Check?In Market Rabbits
10:00 a.m: Judge Market Rabbit Show
6:00 p.m: Judge Market Swine

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

8:00 a.m: Pee Wee Shows?Goat, Lamb and Swine Shows
9:00 a.m: Judge Pen of 3 Heifers followed by Pen of 3 Heifers Exhibitor Interviews
9:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m: Release of Creative Arts projects.
10:00 a.m: Senior Citizens Day and Children’s Day
12:00 p.m: All Premium Sale and Freezer Sale Exhibitors (excluding those participants showing steers, Pen of 3 Heifers, and Ag Mechanics projects)
Must notify the Sale Committee which project they wish to sell. Exhibitors must notify the Sale Committee within 10 minutes of the conclusion of their show which project they want to sell.
2:00 p.m: Pen of 3 Heifers Awards in the Show Ring
2:00 p.m: Judge Ag Mechanics projects. For those projects not selling in the Premium Sale check?out will be at the conclusion of the Show.
5:00 p.m: Creative Arts Champion Pictures
7:00 p.m: Judge Market Steers

Thursday, June 8, 2023

5:30 p.m: Buyer’s Social and Supper, Note – this is for Buyers Only
5:30 p.m: Presentations, Announcement of Scholarships and other Awards
6:30 p.m: Premium Sale

Friday, June 9, 2023

8:00 a.m - 10 a.m: Release of Premium Sale and Non?Sale animals. All Exhibitors must be present at this time.
6:00 p.m: Ranch Hand Rodeo (contestants and all associates must pay gate fee)
6:30 p.m: Freezer Sale (Main Hall). All Freezer Sale projects will be released at the conclusion of the Freezer Sale.
All Exhibitors must be present at this time.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

6:30 p.m: Stick Horse followed by Mutton Bustin
7:30 p.m: Bull Buck?Out
Dance

Date: May 31 - June 10, 2023

Location:

Grimes County Expo Center
5220 Farm to Market Road 3455
Navasota, TX 77868

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