Announcements
April 2 Woodhill Farms Bull Sale, Viroqua, WI
April 2 2K Cattle Performance Bull & Female Sale, Lancaster, WI
April 26 Royal Angus Sale, Eagle, WI
April 28 WAA Board Meeting 7 p.m. Arlington Research Farm
May 9 NER Farms Production and Bull Sale, Oconto, WI
May 16 Country Lane/S&R Angus Production Sale, Ringle, WI
May 24 Southwest Wisconsin Angus Show, Lancaster, WI
July 19-25 National Junior Angus Show, Perry, GA
2009 Entry Forms
WI AA Board
These men and women will serve on the Wisconsin Angus Association board of directors and are pictured at the 2009 Wisconsin Angus Association Annual Meeting and Banquet, January 24 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Seated from left includes Kevin Konkol, Menomonee Falls, Wis., president; James Hawthorne, Monroe, Wis., vice president; Ardel Quam, Lodi, Wis., secretary-treasurer; Kathy Miller, Bristol, Wis., auxiliary president; and Kelli Retallick, Glen Haven, Wis., Wisconsin Junior Angus Association president. Directors standing from left include David Horstmeyer, Marshall, Wis.; Jeff Kind, Jefferson, Wis.; Andy Mindemann, Oconomowoc, Wis.; Daniel Downing, Waukesha, Wis.; Scott Gaffney, Barneveld, Wis.; Anthony Weber, Dousman, Wis.; Dale Heagle, Seymour, Wis.; Dennis Schlimgen, Blue Mounds, Wis.; and Casey Jentz, Fennimore, Wis. Photo by American Angus Association.
President’s Message
Hello and welcome to the Wisconsin Angus Ass’n. In the past our Association had an article in the Wisconsin Agriview throughout the year. In an effort to customize and change as needed, your board of directors decided we could do better with providing a newsletter. We want and look forward to all members contributing as well as utilizing this publication. Call the first issue a work in progress, with improvements and changes ongoing. By now the first issue has been sent. In the newsletter you will find the publication dates, advertising rates and information deadlines. If you have a topic or idea to share, great! If you would like to see something new or in addition, please contact us. This is the members’ newsletter.
Remember to mark your calendar for the Wisconsin Angus Breeders’ Sale, March 22, at 1pm, Grant County Fairgrounds, Lancaster, WI. This is a great opportunity to see and purchase well bred Angus cattle. I am sure you will find something to suit your herd or showing needs. Please pass this information to all your commercial breeder friends as well. They would do well to add these great genetics into their existing herds.
See you there!
Kevin Konkol
President Wisconsin Angus Associaton
American Angus Association Offers Resources 24/7
Users of Angus genetics can access information at their fingertips any time day or night, save time and avoid the paper trail by utilizing AAA Login, an online resource provided by the American Angus Association (AAA).
More than half of active AAA members already use AAA Login, available to anyone with Internet access, including non-member buyers, known as affiliates, who have Angus bulls or females transferred to their name, Affiliates are typically commercial cattle producers who use Angus genetics.
AAA Login is simple to use, members or affiliates create their own profile by clicking on AAA Login in the upper-left hand corner of the Angus home page, www.angus.org. Once a user creates his or her profile, a unique password will be generated for him or her and sent to the e-mail provided; at that time the user can customize a private password.
Some of the services that affiliates can take advantage of include easy access to their registered herds performance records, EPD updates, the ability to clean up their herd inventory, transferring cattle to another buyer, and Customizable $Vaule Indexes. In addition, if the affiliate's commercial cow herd, Angus, Angus-cross or other breed is enrolled in the Beef Record System (BRS), AAA Login gives instant access to his or her cow production records.
"The customizable reports available in AAA Login are a great tool for all producers," Laughlin says. AAA Login is just one of many tools available to nearly 33,000 American Angus Association members and those commercial cattle producers who use Angus genetics. For more about Association program or the Angus breed, go to www.angus.org.