Breed Association Case Study

At 7:27 on this Sunday morning, the sun is just peaking over the tall pines covering the open field of grass. Just as the rays of sunlight are meeting the ground, a calm breeze soothes the field from one end to the other. At this point there is only one thing missing, the cattle. When the sun is finally on display for all to see, the cows wake and walk with their baby calves to the middle of the field to see what another day holds. Perhaps they wonder what wild animals will come through their field, or if they will be gathered on this day for yearly immunizations. The truth of the matter is that they do not know which opportunities may arise. There may even be a whole other world that they have yet to see. Just as this small herd of cattle is unaware of the outside world, so many people have no idea of the careers and jobs available of that in the beef cattle breed association. The involuntary assumption is that they only associate with farmers and cattle everyday, and are simply an unnecessary part of the agricultural industry. Nevertheless, these associations offer many different jobs ranging from a customer service representative, to a registration paper specialist. …show more content…
This includes research, records and registration assistance, breed improvement measures, avenues to market animals to other cattlemen (i.e. sales, online auctions, catalogs, etc.) and public relations efforts to promote the breed to other agriculturalists (Baker)”. A breed association is centered on the idea of helping the people, as they are non-profit associations. Each day there are hundreds of phone calls from people needing assistance, whether it is with transferring a set of registration papers into another person’s name, or attending political events for the promotion of agriculture as a whole in order to improve their breed as well. These associations are much more than this,