Questions about selling seed stock.

[dun]

I think it's one of those deals that an auction or seller can add to the requirements but those are the minimum that a Red Angus seller has to go by.

 

[Caustic Burno]

DNA testing all animals to be registered would be pricey. I'm sure some would just cull harder, but a ton would just stop registering. That may not sound like a big deal, but it is. There are a whole mess of Shorthorn breeders in this country who produce great, commercially acceptable seed stock, who have quit the association altogether. This really ends up hurting the breed as a whole, because it starts to limit the usefulness of registered stock beyond the show ring.

Agreed.

There has to be a balance between stewarding the breed identity (including herdbook) and making the process so onerous that nobody (other than the richest, most anally retentive breeders) wants to actually do it.

Two reasons I quit after twenty years is drought and as you put so well seemed like every other month there was something new. It became a real pain in the butt.