I've noticed that in North America alone there are three main Murray Grey breed associations, not counting all the regional, state, and local MG associations. They are:
American Murray Grey Association
Canadian Murray Grey Association
Murray Grey International Association
I realize that most of the major beef breeds have national associations in both the US and Canada. However, I was surprised to stumble across the "Murray Grey International Association" which seems to have primarily US and Canadian breeders. What is even more interesting is that I noticed that several of the US breeders are members of both the American and International groups.
Would someone please tell me the advantage to belonging to one organization over the other, or why it is in my best interest to belong to both.
It appears that the International group is relatively new (possibly started in 2000 or 2001). What prompted a group of MG breeders to start another breed association when it is getting pretty difficult for most breeds to support even one association?
A few years back there were two Braunvieh associations here in the US. I'm not sure why there were two, but eventually one of the associations closed shop. I'm assume that they closed because there just wasn't enough business to support two offices.
American Murray Grey Association
Canadian Murray Grey Association
Murray Grey International Association
I realize that most of the major beef breeds have national associations in both the US and Canada. However, I was surprised to stumble across the "Murray Grey International Association" which seems to have primarily US and Canadian breeders. What is even more interesting is that I noticed that several of the US breeders are members of both the American and International groups.
Would someone please tell me the advantage to belonging to one organization over the other, or why it is in my best interest to belong to both.
It appears that the International group is relatively new (possibly started in 2000 or 2001). What prompted a group of MG breeders to start another breed association when it is getting pretty difficult for most breeds to support even one association?
A few years back there were two Braunvieh associations here in the US. I'm not sure why there were two, but eventually one of the associations closed shop. I'm assume that they closed because there just wasn't enough business to support two offices.