The TWA "Steaks Are High" sale is the longest-running annual sale in the United States. It is held on the 2nd day of a 2-day event in conjunction with the Texas Wagyu Association annual meeting of members. See the attached sale catalog for the 9th annual Steaks Are High sale...
The Synergy Wagyu "Genetic Opportunity Sale" held on 4/7/2018 at Limerick, Pennsylvania, USA, contained 44 lots that included numerous high end, and rare animals. See the attached sale catalog in PDF file format.
The Florida Wagyu Production Sale held by Clear Creek Cattle Company on March 3, 2018, has 75 live animals. The catalog contains useful information on sires of the animals in the sale, as well as a large volume information useful to Wagyu breeders. Sale manager and auctioneer is Schacher Auction...
This short (2:16) pre-recorded training video/webinar shows how to log into the Digital Beef system using your login ID (your membership number) and your password, and then, once logged into the system, how to look up an animal using its registration number. A very basic training webinar for new users...
The attached report was written by Dr. Kiyoshi Namikawa, the then Executive Director of the Japanese Wagyu Breed Registry, and provides a wealth of valuable information related to the way Wagyu cattle were developed in Japan.
The attached article by Wes Ishmael was published in Beef Plus and sets forth some of the benefits of Wagyu beef compared to beef from other cattle breeds.
The attached research paper was co-authored by five Japanese scientists including T. Gotoh and H. Takahashi of Kuju Agricultural Research Center, Faculty of Agriculsture, Kyushu University, Japan. The report contains infomation about the way Wagyu are raised in Japan, how meat is graded in Japan, and various reasons Wagyu beef...
The SCD DNA Test is a test performed by Geneseek and offered by the American Wagyu Association in a package together with the Igenity Tenderness DNA Test. The usefulness of the SCD DNA Test is a much-debated matter amongst Wagyu producers.The attached research paper was co-authored by eight Japanese scientists...
See the attached paper, published by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Uiversity of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Washington State University ("WSU") has a long history of researching the Wagyu breed in the United States. Attached is an index of the various WSU papers published.
Below is a comparison of the new Digital Beef ("DB") system to the old ABRI ("ABRI") system. This is a "running list" and "work in process" of comparisons. Please use the "comment" function to tell us about other meaningful comparisons you have seen after having used both systems. Your input...
Wagyu is technically classified as a Bos Taurus type of cattle. But Wagyu are meaningfully different in many respects compared to other types of Bos Taurus cattle including the British and Contenental breeds. Historians had commonly believed that all cattle breeds originated from three types of large, black European wild...
During the early years of Wagyu breeding outside Japan, breeding of Wagyu was limited to breeders in the United States, Australia and Canada. The pool of Wagyu genetics outside of Japan is very limited. The genetics of only 221 individual Wagyu form the basis of the entire worldwide herd of...
Washington State University ("WSU"), under the direction of Dr. Charlie Gaskins, has performed several "National Wagyu Sire Summary" progeny tests and published the results of such tests. EPDs were generated based upon the results of these progeny tests. See the attached reports.
The American Wagyu Assocaition is the American registrar for registered Wagyu cattle. www.Wagyu.org
In this 10-minute video, John Daub, the producer of "Only In Japan" investigates Wagyu beef produced in the Tottori prefecture, which won the 2017 "Wagyu Olympics" held September 7th through 11th in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, and compares this beef from Tottori prefecture to the famous Kobe beef. In the video, John...
On 12/4/2017 the AWA published a CAR tutorial designed to provide instruction to AWA members regarding how to enroll female animals into CAR. Because the CAR fee methodology requires billing (assessment) of fees by the AWA for each active female in an AWA member's herd, it is necessary that members...
On 12/4/2017 the AWA provided via email to AWA members a tutorial showing how to "update a member's active herd" which is a necessary component of implementing CAR (Complete Animal Reporting). This is necessary because under the CAR fee structure it is necessary for the AWA to know which animals...
On 12/4/2017 AWA Executive Director George Owen sent an email to AWA members announcing the "Phase 3 roll out" that included CAR (Complete Animal Reporting), the new "per cow owned" fee structure to be implemented by the AWA to replace the former "per newly registered calf" fee structure. See that...
The term "CAR", as used by the American Wagyu Association ("AWA), stands for "Complete Animal Reporting". This is a term used to describe a member animal reporting methodology by which the association attempts to enforce reporting by its members of 100% of the animals in its herd. Other breed associations...
IGS (International Genetic Solutions) is a leading-edge genetics measurements system that uses "BOLT" (Biometric Open Language Tools) used for creating genomic-enhanced EPDs (Expected Progeny Differences) used for breeding selection. In 2017 the AWA decided to utilize IGS to calculate EPDs for the animals in the AWA Wagyu animal registry using...
On 11/20/2017 the AWA published a tutorial with instructions on how to record commercial cattle (non-Wagyu) into the Digital Beef system. This is useful if the AWA member desires to manage its entire herd of both Wagyu and non-Wagyu animals in Digital Beef, and provides for linkage of embryo calves...
The attached tutorial shows how to enter a single calf to be recorded within your active herd inventory by entering the new calf birthing information such as birth date, dam, sire, recipient dam (in the case of an embryo calf), color, horn status, etc. This method is to enter one...
On 11/13/2017 the AWA provided the attached tutorial that provided instruction to AWA members regarding how to order DNA tests on their animals using the new Digital Beef systems by making a request within Digital Beef for the DNA tests desired.
See the attached PDF file for a tutorial on how to update your active list of animals in the AWA herd book registry. This tutorial will show you how to view all of your currently owned animals listed in the registry (according to the current registry) and then set animals...
On 10/13/2017 the AWA sent an email to AWA members announcing "Phase 2" of the roll out of the new Digital Beef system. Also included with such email were several attachements providing instruction on various new processes related to herd management utilizing the new Digital Beef System, including how to...
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