There is some kind of program this dude was telling me about last year, Or maybe the year before. I don't remember all of the details, but he was saying you could join the association, and breed your cows to approved Wagyu bulls enrolled in that program, He said when you sold them, you cut out a chunk of ear, and sent it in along with the receipt you got from the sale barn that day, and they would send you a check for whatever it took to make your calves sell for 20%.. or maybe it was 20 cents per pound....over the top price paid for calves that day at that barn for that weight class. He had come by wanting to buy some of my Corriente cows. While he was there, he was telling us about it, and tried to talk us into doing that with our Corr herd. He had enrolled bulls, he said. I said no thanks, but everytime I bought a load of Corrientes, he would come by and buy the nom-solid red or black ones I had. He bought up about 70 head over several loads, til one day he said he wasn't going to buy anymore, that he had enough. Seems like you had to pay, or they deducted, $26 ( or might have been $16) for the test on that chunk of ear you sent in. Maybe @Mountaintown Creek Ranch or another Wagyu breeder on here knows more about that.
