Meeting Minutes for 21 Jun 2008
Meeting called to order by
President Wayne Gifford. Minutes of last meeting and
treasurer’s report read and approved. Our bank balance
is $2961.54. We received $450.00 from ABGA for our
show.
Old
Business:
Show
Committee: A suggestion was made to provide a meal on
Friday night before the show for exhibitors. We can’t
charge for it, but we could ask for donations. There
are no close restaurants around for the late arrivals.
Motion was made and seconded that we have a separate
committee to obtain ads for the catalog and sponsorships
for awards for next year. Gary Custer suggested we have
a show in Filer, Idaho in June of next year in addition
to the show in May in New Plymouth. Further discussion
will wait until after the Production Sale in September.
Youth
Committee: Riley McKay’s doe had twins, buck and doe.
So we will have a doeling to donate back to the program.
(If we can get it away from her. She thinks it’s pretty
special) The question was then brought up that if the
doelings were not needed for the program or were not
acceptable for the program, would the participants be
allowed to keep them. Motion was made and seconded that
this be allowed, but if in the future a doeling was
needed, the second year’s doeling would be returned to
the program. The Junior members participating will be
asked to exhibit their animals at a show before the sale
in September.
Karen
Kennedy reported that she contacted the Western Idaho
Fair, Canyon County Fair and Owyhee County Fair about
how they are handling the Market Goat sales for their 4H
and FFA exhibitors. Western Idaho doesn’t have a meat
goat sale and doesn’t seem interested. Canyon County
has no initial weight requirements, but they must keep
records showing a gain of 1/3# per day. Owyhee County
also has no weight requirements but the animals should
weigh 80 to 100# at fair time. This is their first year
of having a market goat sale and they would welcome any
help from our association. Gem County wants initial max
of 65#, no minimum, but must weigh 80 to 100# at fair
time. Payette County must be under 40# at weight in and
over 70# by fair time. Washington and Malheur counties
have no weight requirements. The animals need to be
born after January 1st of the year they’re
shown and should be owned by the exhibitor for 70 days.
Any association members residing in these counties are
encouraged to contact the fair superintendents to help
in any way we can. These kids are our future
customers.
Market
Committee: Linda Cofer-Disecio (not sure if that’s
spelled right) is reportedly coming thru our area and
will be buying cull does and bucks. She wants them
fleshy, not skinny or fat and she will pay $.90 a
pound. They must be Boer or boer x not dairy goats.
She will also take 40 to 70# wethers for $1.10 a pound.
She picks them up herself, but if we could get them to a
central location, that would help. She buys them for
market in the Seattle area. When we know exactly when
she is coming, we will notify the membership so that
anyone who has animals to sell can get them to her.
The
shipment that went to Chicago from Utah got $2.40 a
pound hanging weight. They were charged only actual
shipping costs by the hauler. It wasn’t known what the
shrinkage was on the animals for the trip.
Sales
Committee: We have approximately 120 animals coming to
the sale, per the responses from members by the June 15th
deadline. With the economy and gas prices the way they
are, it was discussed that we limit the number of
animals to what we have so far. A motion was made and
seconded and approved by voice vote that we would not
take any more animals. Entry forms will be included
with the mailing of these minutes to the consignors who
notified us by June 15th that they are
bringing animals.
Those
consignors wanting pictures in the catalog, the charge
will be $10 per picture, non refundable. The pictures
will be in black & white this year. Please include the
picture and the fee with your entry form when you send
it in. Deadline for returning the entry form is July
15, 2008. They can be sent either to Gary Custer, 438
Hiway 74, Twin Falls, Idaho 83301 or Clare Askew, 5180
SE 1st Avenue, New Plymouth, Idaho 83655.
Please send copies of registration papers or application
of registration along with your entries. The original
papers must be provided to the sales clerk and will be
sent to the buyers after their checks have cleared the
bank.
A vet
will be available to provide health certificates on
animals for out of state buyers as needed. The charge
is either $10.00 per animal or $25.00 per load.
We will
not accept credit cards for payment, but we can set up a
PayPal account thru Wayne Gifford if needed.
New
Business: The Payette County Fair has more goats
entered than they have pens. Twenty more pens are needed
and they have ask us to help them out. A motion was
made and seconded and passed by voice vote that we would
do as much as we could to assist them. Dave Poe has 12
portable kidding pens that can be used so we will only
have to build 8 more. The extra pens would be set up in
the Dairy barn as those exhibits are not using their
entire barn. The Fairboard will be taking bids for new
pens in the sheep barns. Dennis Hooper’s nephew Jeremy
is a metal worker and is going to construct a demo pen
to present to the board along with an estimate to bid
for the job. It was decided in executive session and
voted on by the board members present to front him the
money for materials to build the pen. If he gets the
bid, he will pay the association back. If he doesn’t
get the bid, the association will get the pen. We can
either use if for our show and sale or raffle it off.
The materials cost $539.00.
The
next meeting will be AUGUST 16, 2008 at 1 pm at Evelyn
Simon’s farm in Hagerman Idaho. Contact Evelyn @
evys@iglide.net for directions if you are
planning on attending.
Clare Askew
Secretary/Treasurer
