Decatur County, Indiana

Decatur County
4-H Fair 2026

"Harvesting the American Dream"

July 9–15, 2026 · Fairgrounds, Greensburg
📞 HQ: 812-663-3864 📞 Extension: 812-663-8388 📍 Directions

Fair Info

Weekly Parking$15.00
Daily Parking$5.00
Where to buy pre-sale ride tickets (from June 1)
  • Napoleon State Bank
  • German American Bank
  • Vinyl Solutions
  • Sanders Market
  • Letts Hardware
  • Lowes Pellet and Grain
  • Game Plan
  • Delta Faucet
  • WTRE
  • Decatur County REMC
  • TOPS Hardware
  • Jackson County Bank
  • Jett Wash & Dry Cleaning
Lost & Found
  • Headquarters Building, Fair Office (center of fairgrounds)

Day by Day

THU9 Opening Day 4-H Royalty crowned · Wolff Bros. ATV Drags ▾
🎡 Thrifty Thursday — all rides take one ticket. Carnival rides and food booths open 6:00 pm. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

Wolff Bros. ATV Drags

  • 3:30 pm Gates open
  • 7:00 pm Event starts

Pit Pass $20 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 7–9 am Sheep check-in — Livestock Pavilion
  • 9 am–6 pm Horse & Pony check-in — Horse Arena
  • 10:00 am Dairy Goat Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 1:00 pm Boer, Meat & Pygmy Goat Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 4–10 pm 4-H Buildings open

🎤 Community Building

  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast
  • 5:30 pm Certificate of Distinction presentation
  • 6:00 pm Crowning of 4-H Royalty; Miss Decatur County & Court
  • 6:30 pm Public Speaking / Verbal Communications Contest

🍞 Open Class & Art Show

  • 9–11 am Quick Breads entry — Farm & Home Building
  • 1:00 pm Quick Breads judging
  • 9–11 am Art Show entry, $1.50/entry — Farm & Home Building
FRI10 Friday TQ Midgets · Feldman's Music Studio at 7 pm ▾
🎡 Carnival opens 6:00 pm — regular ticket pricing. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

All Star Circuit of Champions — T.Q. Midgets

  • 4:00 pm Gates open
  • 7:00 pm Event starts

Pit Pass $30 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 7–10 am Beef check-in — Livestock Pavilion
  • 9:00 am Horse & Pony Show — Horse Arena
  • 10 am–5 pm Poultry Show — Poultry/Rabbit Barn
  • 11:00 am Dairy Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 5:00 pm Swine Showmanship & County Born & Bred Show
  • 4–10 pm Community Building open (view 4-H projects)

🎤 Stages

  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building
  • 1–9 pm Farm & Home Building open (view Open Class)
  • 7:00 pm Music: Feldman's Music Studio — Farm & Home stage
SAT11 Saturday Baby Show 8:45 am · Demo Derby 7:30 pm ▾
🎡 Carnival opens 5:00 pm — regular ticket pricing. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

Toast Promotions.com Demo Derby

  • 4:00 pm Gates open
  • 7:30 pm Event starts

Pit Pass $25 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 9:00 am Horse & Pony Show — Horse Arena
  • 9:00 am Rabbit Show & judging (Illustrated Talk, Poster, Ambassador, Showmanship) — Rabbit Barn
  • 9:00 am Gilt/Barrow Swine Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 3:30 pm Beef Showmanship / Born & Bred Show
  • 1–10 pm Community Building open

🎤 Stages

  • 8:45 am Baby Show — Community Building (pre-registration required by July 3, $5; late reg. July 7–11, $10)
  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building
  • 1–9 pm Farm & Home Building open (view Open Class)
  • 6–9 pm Band: Fishers of Men — Farm & Home stage
SUN12 Fair Parade Day Parade 4 pm · Dirt Drags 6:30 pm ▾
🎡 Community Appreciation / Discount Ticket Night — all rides one ticket off regular price (3-ticket rides only take 2, etc). Carnival opens 5:00 pm. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

Southern Indiana Dirt Drags

  • 4:00 pm Gates open
  • 6:30 pm Event starts

Pit Pass $20 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 9:00 am Horse & Pony Show — Horse Arena
  • 11:00 am Sheep Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 1:00 pm Kids Pedal Tractor Pull — east side of HQ Building, blacktop
  • 1–10 pm Community Building open
  • 4:00 pm Fair Parade — "Harvesting the American Dream," Grand Marshal: Decatur Co. farm families recognized by the State of Indiana

🎤 Stages

  • 12:30–3:30 pm Band: Rock Steady — Farm & Home stage
  • 1–9 pm Farm & Home Building open (view Open Class)
  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building
MON13 Family Day Frog Jumping · Truck & Tractor Pull 7 pm ▾
🎡 Family Day — all rides take one ticket. Carnival opens 5:00 pm. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

NTPA Region 2 Truck & Tractor Pull — Farmstock Tractors

  • 4:00 pm Gates open
  • 7:00 pm Event starts

Classes: Hot Farm Tractor · Light Pro Stock Tractor · TWD Super Mod Trucks · (non-sanctioned) Hot Stock Semi. Pit Pass $30 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 9:00 am Beef Show — Livestock Pavilion
  • 2:00 pm Horse & Pony Mini 4-H Show — Horse Arena
  • 4–10 pm Community Building open
  • 6–8 pm Livestock Judging Contest — Livestock Pavilion
  • 7:00 pm 4-H Fashion Revue — Community Building

🎤 Stages

  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building
  • 1–9 pm Farm & Home Building open (view Open Class)
  • 6:30 pm Farm Bureau Frog Jumping Contest — Farm & Home Building
  • 6–8 pm Band: Heartland Highway — Farm & Home stage
TUE14 Two for Tuesday Tom Swain Showmanship Contest 6:30 pm ▾
🎡 Two for Tuesday — 2 people ride for the price of 1. Carnival opens 6:00 pm. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

Ohio Valley Tractor Pullers

  • 4:00 pm Gates open
  • 7:00 pm Event starts

Hot Farm Tractor plus non-sanctioned classes. Pit Pass $20 · Grandstand $10 · 5 & under free

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 9:00 am Horse & Pony Fun Show — Horse Arena
  • 4–10 pm 4-H Building open
  • 6:30 pm 51st Tom Swain Memorial Showmanship Contest — Livestock Pavilion (order: Beef, Dairy, Sheep, Swine, Goats)

🎤 Stages

  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building
  • 1–9 pm Farm & Home Building open (view Open Class)
WED15 Last Blast — Final Day Livestock Auction 1 pm · Free parking ▾
🎡 Last Blast — free parking tonight. Carnival opens 6:00 pm. Weather permitting.

🏁 Track & Grandstand

Rain make-up day

No headline event scheduled — reserved in case an earlier show was rained out. No rain dates, no refunds. Rules for all grandstand events available at the HQ Building office.

🐄 4-H Schedule

  • 12–1 pm Luncheon for Livestock Auction buyers — Large Shelter in the Park
  • 1:00 pm 4-H Livestock Auction — Livestock Pavilion
  • 4–6:30 pm Buildings open
  • 6:30 pm Community Building closes
  • 7–9 pm 4-H project release — Community Building (sign out your projects; pick up awards & banners)
  • TBA Barn clean-up after the Livestock Auction

🎤 Stages

  • 5:00 pm WTRE Live! Broadcast — Community Building

🍞 Open Class & Art Show

  • 5:00 pm Farm & Home Building closes to prep for pickup
  • 6–8 pm Open Class project & ribbon release
  • 7–9 pm Art Show project release — Farm & Home Building
THU16 After the Fair Final project pickup — no carnival or grandstand today ▾

📦 Project Release

  • 9 am–12 pm Release of 4-H & Mini 4-H projects not picked up the night before
  • 9 am–4 pm Open Class project pickup — Farm & Home Building

4-H projects not picked up by Monday, July 20 at 4:00 pm will be discarded. Open Class projects remain available through the same deadline. Art Show projects not picked up Wednesday evening are available at the Art Council on the Square. The fair no longer has space to store unclaimed projects.

Sponsors & Committee

2026 Fair Supporters & Sponsors
Gold Level Silver Level — $2,500 Bronze Level — $500
  • K-Fab
  • Kova
  • K&S Farm and Machine Shop
  • Great Plains
  • Oakley Monuments
  • Premier Ag
  • RE/Max
  • SD Barnes Construction
  • McGowan Insurance
  • Milroy Building Supply
  • Blackhawk Precision Ag
  • Dunn & Associates
  • Selking International
  • Lett's Hardware
Other In-Kind Sponsors
2026 Merchant Award Sponsors
  • Standard Fertilizer
  • Tree City Stitches
  • Vanderbur Greenhouse
  • Vanderbur Farms
  • Wesseler Excavating
4-H Council Merchant Award Sponsors (2025 awards)

The 4-H Council thanks the following merchants who sponsored 4-H awards:

  • 80's Ladies
  • Animal Medical Hospital
  • Bruns Family Farm
  • C & L Martin Antiques
  • D & K Swine
  • Decatur County Farm Bureau
  • Decatur County Farmers Mutual Insurance
  • Decatur County SWCD
  • F. J. Hellmich Farm, Inc.
  • Fifty Extension Homemaker's Club
  • First Federal Savings & Loan
  • Gauck Farms, Inc.
  • Gauck Maple Way Meats
  • Grazing Systems Supply
  • Greensburg Power of the Past
  • Greensburg Veterinary Clinic
  • Harper Valley Farms
  • Hoeing Wholesale Supply, Inc.
  • Horstman Seed Service
  • KB Specialty Foods
  • KDH Trucking
  • K-Fab, Inc.
  • Knecht Painting & Sales
  • Leonard Holtkamp Memorial
  • Letts Hardware & Equipment
  • Levenstein's Abbey Carpet
  • Mangs of Greensburg, LLC
  • Silver Bells 4-H Club
  • Spice of Life Extension Homemaker Club
  • Standard Fertilizer
  • Farm Credit Services
Fair Committee, 4-H Council & Extension Office

Decatur County Commissioners — Jeremy Pasel, Brian Wenning, Gabriel Nobbe

Entertainment & Sponsors — Kevin Crites, President

Track Events — Scott Best  ·  Midway — Kevin Crites

Vendors/Booths — Bill Metz, Danny Peters

Fair Parade — Christopher Ramey  ·  Fair Pageant — Barb Waechter, Secretary

4-H Council — Cody Gault, Scott Smith  ·  Treasurer — Mary Lou Davis

Open Class Superintendent & Fair Book — Bonita Hellmich

Extension Office Staff
Christopher Fogle, HHS/CED — foglec@purdue.edu
Sabrina Allen, Ag & Natural Resources — allen484@purdue.edu
Nora Bruns, 4-H Youth Development — stacyn@purdue.edu
Lana Martin, Office Manager — marti117@purdue.edu
Bonita Hellmich, Admin. Assistant — bhellmic@purdue.edu

Extension Office — 822 S County Road 200 W, Greensburg, IN 47240 · 812-663-8388