...and we are cheering!
The December 2009 Jersey Journal from the USA arrived on December 11.
Among many arresting pieces of information was the Page 17 Editorial "Finishing Strong in 2009".
This article made such great reading! One could not come away from a reading without being very motivated!
Seems that, as of late November, the American Jersey Cattle Association's year to date total for registrations is already the fifth best total EVER recorded in 141 years of history of the association! There is no question that the 2009 total will be at the very least the fourth best total ever recorded!
Please pause and consider that this means that in the top five all time yearly totals for the AJCA three of them are 2007, 2008 and 2009 with the long ago years of 1947 and 1953 being the other top finishers!
Dig a little deeper and you'll discover that the new top ten list for all time will contain 2002, 2005, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009! The other four years will be "golden oldies" like 1928, 1929, 1947 and 1953!
And why stop at the fourth best year in history this year? 2009 could well end up as the second best year in association history along with 2008!!!! Think about that and all the changes the dairy industry has gone through in 141 years and what 2009 was like for the US dairy industry!
Six of the top ten years being since 2002!!!!! AWESOME!
The great things happening with the Jersey breed in the USA-and there is so much more than the registration totals alone-are being stimulated here in Canada too!
It is clear that our registration total will be the best we've seen in a decade, since 1999, and possibly the best we've seen since 1985, 24 years ago! Equally interesting is that 1985 is the best year for Jersey Canada registrations since 1969, four decades ago!
Can you say renaissance of the Jersey breed in North America?
Where will we both land? December 31 holds the final answer. It is, however; clear that the Jersey breed is moving ahead like never before. In a radically changed industry from ten or twenty four or forty or one hundred and forty one years ago we're truly rockin' on! And for that we are so thankful!
Bravo, AJCA and US Jersey owners and Canuck Jersey owners! All of your hard work is paying off in an overflow of abundance and dividends!
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