Red Angus Association of America
- Red Angus Association of America
The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) was formed in 1954 by seven breeders of reds cropped from best black Aberdeen Angus herds in America. RAAA was designed around the new scientific principles of performance testing. Founding member George Chiga explained, Cquote|The establishment of Red Angus (Association) was more than an accumulation of numbers. It was dreaming of a new approach. In August 1954, the Association's first president, Waldo Forbes, Sr., summed-up the vision of the founding members:
According to RAAA's first executive secretary, Sally Forbes, Cquote|Waldo was above all interested in developing a breed performance program rather than building a new breed for its own sake and the charter members of the Association were...much of the same mind. So, from the beginning, performance data was required for registration of all cattle. The ultimate goal was to initiate a system to objectively evaluate and select cattle based on traits of economic importance, and to build an Association that would adopt and embrace scientific innovation.
Recently hybrids of the Red Angus breed have become quite popular. Crossing with Gelbvieh (Balancer), Limousin (LimFlex), and Simmental (SimAngus) have taken the benefits of both European and British breeds to create highly marketable cattle.
ee also
* Angus cattle
External links
* [http://redangus.org/ Red Angus Association of America]
* [http://www.cattle.com/articles/title/Red+Angus+Cattle.aspx Red Angus Breed Information]
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