Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Still soaring after two thirds of the year

Registry stats and numbers for Jersey Canada to the end of August have just been "crunched" and we like what we see!

Here's an exciting sampler:
  • Registrations are UP 4.9% over 2008 year-to-date
     
  • Electronic submission of registrations accounted for over 60% of registration activity in August. This is the third month in 2009 that electronic submissions have exceeded 60%. All since April. We are now at 56% for the year. Could hit a record 60% by year's end!

  • Transfers are down 9% from last year. August however, was a very good month for transfer activity.

  • Membership totals remain 10% ahead of the very high total in 2008. We are already 5.9% ahead of all of 2008 and 2008 was the best year since 1968! We are now at our highest membership total since 1967, 42 years ago! We creep ever closer to the exciting total of of 1,000 members!

More growth is on the way as we registered an even dozen of 12 new herd names in August. This boosted us to a total of 93 for the year to date. Looks like we'll easily surpass 100 new herd names regsitered for the fourth consecutive year in a row!

Looking at long term growth we have now registered a stunning 779 new herd names since January 2004! Looks like we'll also exceed 800 before the end of 2009!

Embryos sales and transfers continue to be a bright light! 2009 has already seen a record number of embryos transferred for any year in the history of the association! We are already 115% ahead of all of 2008 with four months to go!

Much of the current rising success that the Jersey breed in Canada is experiencing can be attributed to our National Extension Program. This program was established in 2006.

Since then the following accomplisments have been made reached via the program and the hard and smart work of National Extension Agent Jean-Marc Pellerin:

In 2009 to date:
  • 253 herd visits 
  • 10% of all transfers processed this year 
  • Just under 3% of all registrations 
  • 42% of all new herd prefix registrations 
  • 32 new memberships

From 2006 to August 2009 the following levels of activtiy have been achieved:
  • Just under 1,400 herd visits 
  • 205 new members 
  • Over 275 new herd prefixes (45% of all new herd prefixes registered in this time period 
  • Over 800 registrations 
  • Over 930 transfers

Isn't this awesome?

We use this as a springboard for further growth and progress!  Let's see what the final quarter of this rockin' Jersey year brings!


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