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The Value of AAA Membership REGISTRATION • DNA TESTING • CERTIFICATION • MARKETING • RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT • ADVERTISING

database, DigitalBeef. With this database, members can record performance data to maintain vital information. The database provides up-to-date EPD listings twice a year to help members make breeding and marketing decisions. AAA members also benefit from the association’s partnership with GeneSeek. Through this partnership, members have access to the most accurate and cost-effec- tive DNA processing available and are able to verify and protect lineages and deter- mine recessive disorders. To help Aka- kaushi breeders with their marketing and culling decisions, this partnership gives members access to feedlot and carcass information. 

American Akaushi Association (AAA) membership is open to anyone who is interested in Akaushi cattle and the purposes of the association. AAA members are focused on produc- ing high-quality seedstock and com- mercial cattle that produce high-quality, healthful beef. But what’s the real value of AAA mem- bership? As an AAA member, Akaushi breeders have the opportunity to take advantage of the various programs and services the association offers, including registration, DNA testing, certification, marketing, research and development, and advertising. Membership in AAA allows breeders to record and register their Akaushi off- spring (including fullblood, purebred and percentage cattle) using the association’s 1/4 Vertical, 4 color Prime Time Landair Winter 2018

NEW MEMBERS

Richard H. Nunley and Robert B. Nunley Jr., Sabinal, Texas Wayne Clark, Lakeview, Ore. Pete and Lee Ann Ballew, Andrews, Texas Leighton Curtis, Clifton, Texas Jeff Sedberry, Aspermont, Texas Todd and Michelle Gentz, Orange, Texas

Landair, Inc. Beeville, Texas CUSTOM CATTLE PRECONDITIONING Bull and Heifer Development Programs Corn silage-based growing rations for stocker/feeders calves and for seedstock bull and heifer calf development. • Prepare your stocker cattle for turnout of the feedyard! • Prepare your replacement heifers for breeding and /or special sales! • Prepare your seedstock bulls for the commercial cattleman or for the special sale ring! • Private treaty sales at the ranch! • Tailor-made programs to fit your needs – BIG or SMALL! • We now offer PI (Persistently Infected) testing upon request! Let us do what we are good at – FOR YOU!

Mark Marley, Roswell, N.M. Brian Schardt, Carleton, Neb. Darren Kittleson, Fitchburg, Wis. Ty Cross, White Deer, Texas

Scott and Amber Koza, Houston, Texas William Ring Farms, La Grange, Texas Mike and Kim Burge, Nazareth, Texas Michael Afflerbach, Yorktown, Texas David W. Callis, Sedalia, Mo. Wayne and Karen Nichols, Pomona, Mo. Michael McCoy and Jesse Balboa, Waelder, Texas Ron Wilson, Albany, Ga. Owen Hammon, Hildale, Utah Ron Sweeney, Bentonville, Ark. Rapid Bay Akaushi, Ormstown, Quebec, Canada Terry Allen, Joaquin, Texas DSL Enterprises, LLC, Lamar, Mo.

Brown Ranches has been in operation in South Texas since 1924. Five generations of the Austin Brown family have worked very hard to be the best stewards of the land and livestock that have been so graciously entrusted to us. Landair, Inc. 2050 Brown Ranch Lane ● Beeville, Texas Austin Brown III: 361-597-0373 (cell) Ranch Office: 361-358-1093 aebrown70@gmail.com www.brownranchgroup.com Photo courtesyofRossHecox,WesternHorseman Proud supportersof the BeefCheckoff and TexasBeefCouncil.

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