DNA Typing

Effective September 1, 2010 AI sires and donor dams are required to have a parent-verified DNA profile on file prior to registration of progeny. AI Sires and donor dams having a DNA profile on file with IBBA prior to September 1, 2010, are grandfathered in and exempt from the parent-verification requirement. In the event that a parent of the AI sire and donor dam is deceased and a DNA sample is unavailable (semen, embryos, etc) the parent-verification requirement may be exempted providing the DNA profile cannot be constructed, at petitioners expense, from at least three direct living progeny of the deceased. IBBA reserves the right to add parent verification to any subject animal profile already on file should the missing parent’s DNA profile becomes available.

Parentage Disputes

Whenever the eligibility for recording of any animal is in doubt because of uncertain or unknown parentage, the animal will not be registered until the dispute is solved. Any application for registration after March 1, 1997 with a parentage dispute will not be registered until the dispute is solved. Any IBBA animal recorded in the IBBA registry that has a “Parentage Dispute” listed in the first three-generation pedigree is removed from producing registerable offspring and may not be transferred until the dispute is solved. Animals registered prior to March 1, 1997 that have parentage disputes will be noted with an asterisk and may have natural service progeny recorded. These cattle with an asterisk will remain in the breed with the asterisk notation through six (6) generations of descendants.

The circulation for FRONTLINE Beef Producer is 20,000 beef producers!

If you want your advertisement to appear in the September issue of FRONTLINE Beef Producer and reach 20,000 beef producers, please reserve your space before August 10, 2010. The September issue will focus on feeder calf marketing and Brangus bull power.

Contact the IBBA office at 210-696-8231 or Melanie Fuller at 979-828-5300 to advertise.

Saturday, September 25, 2010 at the Oklahoma State Fair. The entry deadline is Monday, August 16th 2010

The IBBA Board of Directors held a conference call meeting on July 5, 2010 to discuss the recommendations from the Show Committee pertaining to the IBBA Rules for Show Eligibility and Inspections of Exhibits.

The IBBA Board has unanimously passed the following change to the rules for exhibiting Brangus cattle.

Source of Champions Sale

Selling 8 elite halter-broke show heifer prospects from the most recognized breeders on the show circuit, along with semen from breed-leading AI sires! Each prospect selling will be halter broke, in show condition, and entered in the Futurity Show on Saturday, July 17. Click here to download the the SOC Sale Flyer.