Competitive Exhibits

San Joaquin County, also known as the breadbasket of the world, produces more than 300 different crops within the county boundaries. The byproducts generated from these commodities range from wine to fresh fruit to milk to feed for livestock.

The mission of the Lodi Grape Festival is to celebrate the agricultural industry and heritage in the County and each year we will choose a new “featured commodity” that will be showcased in every department.

2026 WE ARE FEATURING CORN

Corn is believed to have first been grown in the area of the world that is now Mexico but is now widely grown throughout the United States and is a top 10 crop is San Joaquin County. Corn has many uses including food for humans both as fresh and as an ingredient such as corn starch or corn flower, livestock feed, fuel ethanol, industrial uses and ornamentally.

There will be at least one special corn class in each department of competitive exhibits (except for Viticulture and Junior Viticulture). We encourage you to participate in as many as you want and help us celebrate the pumpkin. Special ribbons will be awarded, and a sweepstakes award will be given to the exhibitor with the most entries in the corn categories.

Look for the 🌽 symbol to see what you can enter!

• The theme this year is "Out of this World"
• We will have a featured commodity in every department - check it out and enter! 2026 is the year corn.
• Size specifications for small quilts and small afghans
• More classes in open and junior Baking departments
• New table setting themes
• Separate amateur and professional fine arts divisions
• New division for interlocking building toys in junior Home Arts & Crafts / Hobbies
• New division for interlocking building toys in junior Home Arts & Crafts / Hobbies

• Enter online by clicking here
• Things to note:
  • You must create a username and password even if you have entered in past years.
  • Check entry guidebook above for rules, entry limits, correct divisions and classes before entering.
  • Pay special attention to proper spelling, capitalization, full names of cities/counties, no abbreviations and the correct mailing address.
  • Please use mailing addresses if it is different than a physical address.
  • Names, titles, addresses, etc. will be used exactly as entered for tags and payment of award premiums.
  • Descriptions should be used to title a photograph, give information about a quilt, etc, but may not contain personally identifying information
  • If you need to log off and complete the entry process at a later time, you must press save or you will lose all of your work.
  • Be sure to submit your entry - it is not complete until you do so.
  • You will receive a confirmation if your entry has been submitted correctly.

• How to submit online entries