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<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 707207" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>I had been in the Polled assn, although I had some horned Herefords also and subscribed to both journals. Looking back it wasn't so much a merger as an AHA takeover, I am not sure why. The AHA appears to me to be structured in such a way that change is very, very slow. I am not sure where I got this term, but someone else described it as "structured to support the status quo". It seems to be bigger than any board member or staff member can affect. The AHA is unresponsive, unrepresentative and ineffective in a lot of ways. As far as data collection goes, in my own experience it is frustrating to send in data and get nothing really usable back. Cow weights is one example. Instead of getting cow weight epds we get some kind of profit idex, that may be ahead of its time, but it is hard to interpret or use for promotion. There is a "bent" toward staying away from any data that puts show cattle or "continental type" cattle in a lesser light than "range type" cattle. As an example: When the steer feed tests were first instituted there were to be top 10 placing announced in several catagories. One of those areas was rea/cwt.......never happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 707207, member: 8677"] I had been in the Polled assn, although I had some horned Herefords also and subscribed to both journals. Looking back it wasn't so much a merger as an AHA takeover, I am not sure why. The AHA appears to me to be structured in such a way that change is very, very slow. I am not sure where I got this term, but someone else described it as "structured to support the status quo". It seems to be bigger than any board member or staff member can affect. The AHA is unresponsive, unrepresentative and ineffective in a lot of ways. As far as data collection goes, in my own experience it is frustrating to send in data and get nothing really usable back. Cow weights is one example. Instead of getting cow weight epds we get some kind of profit idex, that may be ahead of its time, but it is hard to interpret or use for promotion. There is a "bent" toward staying away from any data that puts show cattle or "continental type" cattle in a lesser light than "range type" cattle. As an example: When the steer feed tests were first instituted there were to be top 10 placing announced in several catagories. One of those areas was rea/cwt.......never happened. [/QUOTE]
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