2023 AGM Executive
Dear Members
ASBA’s 53rd AGM was held in Melbourne this month and we thank all those members who took the time to attend and give valued feedback. Your new Executive is as follows:
Phillip Partridge
President- Tasmania
Peter Wenn
Treasurer – Victoria
Sarah Truran
Senior Vice President – South Australia
Stuart Moeck
Junior Vice President – New South Wales
There contact details are available on this link.
Feedback requests from the AGM were to better communicate with the membership, investigate a user pays Breedplan system, revisit the grading table for non-traditional animals and follow-up on validation checks in IGS.
Following on the Board has a one-on-one meeting with IGS in the next few weeks so if you have particular questions to send in, please do so.
Australian Indexes: Final checks are being made to two new Australian Indexes with an information sheet to come out prior to the launch in the next few weeks. We are looking into running one or more webinars following the launch.
Strategic plan: We are also working on our Strategic Plan as the Society moves through our transition and the change that brings. We will be forwarding out a survey seeking feedback on where members see the focus needs to be now, next year and into the future. A number of policies and procedures will come out of these SWOTs to strengthen the breed.
Youth structure: Youth will be a major focus this year while we build an Australia wide Youth group as part of mentoring those coming up through the generations and as succession planning for the Board.
Regards
Felicity Reeves
Executive Officer
Any queries to the Board, please email using this link here Do not hit reply to this email.
The next Board meeting is set for Tuesday 20th June. Letters to Board need to be sent by COB Thursday, prior to the meeting, to be included in meeting notes.
CGEN/IGS Tips:
Leading Zeros: Make sure you’re putting in the three numbers for your ident – 001, 010, 100
Wildcard: While we no longer use % as a wildcard, you can search without a grade – ABCU100 will find the animal U100 belonging to herd ABC. You don’t need to know the whole name either, if you enter FRED, then any animal with those four letters will show.
Eye pigment on an animal is available to be seen on Performance and Summary tabs
ET calves: System does ask for a Flush date to ascertain who owned the dam at flushing (especially Ausn born dams).
DNA request tip: You can submit one, or every sire you know of, at the initial request for the one charge. You are not charged per sire, but per request. So when choosing your bundle, add a list of suspected sires on a separate spreadsheet. Charges for PV after DNA are at $5.50 per request and again, you can choose every sire you know for the one fee of $5.50.
Working on:
Bulk disposing of males – making current older males that clearly aren’t alive/working to clear the number of animals in your herd as inactive.
CGEN built DNA request csvs – we currently use the old excel sheets and manually enter these.
Member own online requests for DNA – go online to enter your own requests.
Issues from external herd software with missing weight classes – ie M for Mature Cow. A CGEN built form is in the pipeline.
Suffixes on animal you’re searching and through the pedigree – P/H R/B etc
Online transfers
Feedback sought on:
Any animals that you know to have had the Bundle or LD, 50K, 100K completed that are not showing an IGS logo for having genomic EPDs.
Enquiry on reporting available in herd software that could be built in to CGEN. Would like some feedback as to what you may wish to see in the reports section.