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Canadian Simmental Association Enewsletter
November 2018
In This Issue
REGISTRY
 
THE HERD LETTER FOR 2018 IS "F"

New Test Combo Offered at Delta Genomics
   
Delta Genomics is now offering a discount price to members ordering a combined GGP-50K and Horned/Polled test.  When GGP-50K and Horned/Polled tests are ordered together, the combined test cost will be $90.00 (plus applicable taxes)

Total Herd Enrollment (THE) Deadlines   
 
DEADLINE submission date for best rate is December 15, 2018 to enroll your 2019 THE (Total Herd Enrollment). THE herds enrolled by this date pay $22.00/head for Purebred, Fullbood and Percentage females.  (Online Simmental.com users benefit by saving $2/head when enrolling online by December 15th.)  Members enrolling their herds by December 15, 2018 will be invoiced in two equal installments: the first on April 1st, 2019 and the second October 1st, 2019.  Enrollments received between December 16th, 2018 and February 15th, 2019 will be charged a $27.00/head enrollment fee, payable in full April 1st, 2019.  Cost to enroll after February 15th, 2019 is $38.00/head, payable in full on April 1st or at time of submission.  Applicable taxes will be added to all prices.
 
Fees are not refundable, except for 1st calf heifers, providing complete performance and disposal information and written request for refund is submitted. For all other females that are disposed of between installment billings, the second installment is due and payable by the member who enrolled the female.
 
Enrolling Partnership-owned and Recently Purchased Females  
  • Partnership-owned females do not print on the Pre-printed Female Enrollment forms, nor included under the "My Pre-Post Inventory 2019" listing for our Online participants.  Please contact the office with the animal ID prior to the December 15th deadline so we may manually enroll these partnership-owned female(s) for your herd.
  • Females that have been recently purchased may not show up on your inventory.  Please call the office to have these animals added to your female enrollment. 
 
2019 Total Herd Enrollment (THE) Instructions For Online www.simmental.com members   
 
Step 1 - Disposing/ Culling Females
  • Go into My Herd | My Inventory
  • Change the Display Year to 2019. Click the "Change" button
  • This will display a My Inventory - Pre-Post listing that displays five columns that are to be completed prior to posting your inventory.
  • Season (S/F) - refers to whether the dam will calve in either Spring or Fall (Default:S)
  • Brd Code - 100 (Bred AI or Natural), 109 - bred commercial. See Data Entry Codes link at the bottom of the online entry-screen.
  • Preg (Y/N)
  • Preg Tested - Yes, or No
Step 2 - Enrolling Active Females in Your Herd
  • Go through all pages of your listed females before clicking the Post Inventory button near the bottom of the last page.
Note: ONLY CLICK ON THIS ONCE.  You will notice the page numbers are shown at the bottom of each listing and advancing to the next page forces a "Save" of the data that has been entered. On the last page only, click the Save button - prior to clicking the Post Inventory button.
  • This process will enroll the active females and display the My Posted Inventory list. 
Step 3 - Entering Breeding
  • You can now enter the individual 2018 breeding dates for each enrolled female as you will now see the word "Edit" displayed to the right of each female on the My Posted Inventory listing.
  • Note: To speed up the entry process you can also use the My Breeding entry screen.  Go to My Herd | My Breeding to update multiple exposures all at one time for a selected group of enrolled females.
Animal Searches
 
At times you may not know the Canadian Registration Number for a specific AI sire.  For example, if you only know the ASA Registration number , you can find the animal record by inputting the registration number by adding the prefix "US_"  at the beginning of the search criteria.
 
E.g.  Rather than entering 2675742, you would enter:  US_2675742 (see example below).
 
 
  Credit Card Users

Please ensure your credit card information is current in the office. If your card expires or you change numbers, please contact the office so we can continue to process all your work with no delays. Online.Simmental.com users are required to keep a credit card on file with the CSA.
NEW CANADIAN SIMMENTAL ASSOCIATION FEE SCHEDULE 

 
BREED IMPROVEMENT

BOLT Evaluation Update
 
Pre-production testing of the BOLT evaluation system began in July. The testing process involves CSA sending weekly data updates including genomic information and receiving genetic evaluations back on a weekly basis. The testing represents the next steps in adding additional breeds//breed information into the BOLT evaluation at IGS.
 
NEW - THE Compliance Report
 
THE Compliance reports are designed to help remind you in one easy to access report of animals in your herd that may be missing some data.
An example report is shown here...


The report shows only those females in the cow herd with missing data.  This means you do not have to sort through your entire group of cows to identify those that may have missed some key information.  In this example, ABC 123D does not have a calf reported.  We do not know if she lost the calf, never conceived or the calf just came on a busy day and was not reported.  THE Compliance reports provides an easy, one stop reminder to identify missing information and ensure that full reporting is done without having to sort through the entire cow herd.
Reports can be accessed/printed from the online system at any time.  Paper only clients should receive reporting in their fall packages, post-weaning.
IMPORTANT REMINDER!

A reminder to everyone exhibiting or selling Simmental cattle this fall, your animals must be registered with the CSA  and have a legible tattoo. It is the responsibility  of provincial associations and or sale mangers  to ensure that registrations and tattoos are checked.
                                                                                                                                              
 
2018 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE QUALIFYING SHOWS
                                                                                                                                              
For a complete list of rules and regulations, visit www.simmental.com


STAND OUT & BE IDENTIFIED

  
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SIMMENTAL COUNTRY NEWS
   
Simmental Country Advertising Deadlines 
January Commercial Country - Dec 1 st  2018
February Simmental Country - Jan 1 st  2019

Contract Information
Contracts are available for 4 issue full pages, 7 issue full pages and 7 issue 1/2 page. Please contact Randy Bollum for further questions.
Click here for contract information.
 
Membership Announcements
Please send any membership announcements to  sgiles@simmental.com
 
What's Happening
If you'd like to have your sale or event listed in 'What's Happening' in Simmental Country and on the website please send to Sue
For a listing of Simmental events visit the Simmental Country website.  
 
FRIENDS OF CANADIAN SIMMENTAL FOUNDATION 
 
2018 Scholarship Winners Announced!

Calgary, Alberta - The Friends of the Canadian Simmental Foundation (FCSF) are pleased to announce the recipients of their 2018 scholarships. Thirty-six applications were received from across the country. The quality and potential is great within the youth of our industry and while we would like to assist all those who applied, we are limited to five scholarships. This year's recipients illustrated the bright future that our youth are presenting to the agriculture industry and Simmental breed.
 
Scholarships that are being awarded for the 2018 - 2019 academic year include, the Friends of Canadian Simmental Foundation Scholarship, the Dr. Dixon Memorial Scholarship and the Trevor Vance- First Year Scholarship, with a combined value of $12,000.
 
Friends of the Canadian Simmental Foundation Scholarships which are valued at $3,000 each and were awarded to Emilee Oro of Clive, Alberta and Kaitlyn Maxwell of Viking, Alberta. Emilee is taking the Agriculture Management program at Olds College and Kaitlyn is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at University of British Columbia in Kelowna.
 
The Dr. Dixon Memorial Scholarships, in memory of Dr. Allan A. Dixon are valued at $2,000 each were awarded to Austin Jacobson of Ponoka, Alberta and Courtney Wolfe of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Austin is studying Veterinary Medicine at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and Courtney is taking Animal Bioscience at the University of Saskatchewan.
 
The Trevor Vance - First Year Scholarship, in memory of Trevor Edward Vance is valued at $2,000 and this year is awarded to Tia Schram from Bruderheim, Alberta. Tia is studying for her Business degree at Concordia University.
 
Ken Lewis, President of Friends of Canadian Simmental Association said, "It's great to see so many high quality Scholarship Applications spread out from across the country. Each of this year's recipients have showcased leadership, development skills and a dedication to their community as well as the livestock industry. Congratulations to all of this year's scholarship recipients and we wish everyone who applied, the very best in your future education goals".
The Friends of Canadian Simmental Foundation is a not-for-profit registered Foundation that is dedicated to scholarships and educational support of youth, as well as research for the improvement of Canadian agriculture. 
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For more information please contact:
Friends of Canadian Simmental Foundation
#13 4101 - 19 th St. N.E. Calgary, AB T2E 7C4
Phone: 1-403-250-7979 or email fcsf@simmental.com
YOUNG CANADIAN SIMMENTAL ASSOCIATION

YCSA Annual Administration Fee
 
Starting in January 2019 the YCSA is now charging an Annual Administration fee of $10 (plus taxes).  It was motioned and approved from the YSCA meeting to implement a yearly $10 fee to track active members within the association.

For any questions or concerns please contact Kelsey Manske-  kmanske@simmental.com  

YCSA Facebook Auction is Back!

Auction will run November 26th - December 9th on Facebook
  • Like the Young Canadian Simmental Association page
  • Join the Young Canadian Simmental Association Online Auction Fundraiser Group to see and bid on the items!
Previous years items have included household décor, exclusive genetics, clothing, pictures, unique experience and more!
Not on Facebook? List of items will be available at www.simmental.com. Contact your local board member to bid.

TEAM Conference Announcement!

Going forward the TEAM Conference will be held every second year and will be heading to ONTARIO in 2020!
CSA OFFICE HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
  
Office Holiday Schedule
  
Christmas -  The Canadian Simmental Association office will be closed for the holiday season from December 24th until December 27th 

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