My Fred Stout Experience

Presented By: Robert McGarry

Where I Spent My Time At The Office Working Sales Traveling with Appraisers

Pre Sale Preparations◦ Sending out flyers◦ Sending out letters asking for consignments◦ Printing catalogs◦ Sending out Catalogs◦ Making Bidder Cards and Buyer sheets◦ Addressing envelopes

In the Office

Catalog Preparations◦ Filing and organizing Pictures◦ Proofreading Catalogs◦ Finding Pictures ◦ Reading Pedigrees and finding Pictures for

individual Cows◦ Preparing PowerPoints

In The Office

Worked a Production Sale for the first time Learned how much time and effort goes into

preparing for and running a sale Got better at Clipping Learned that an important part of sales is

public relations With the owners And with the buyers

At the Sales

Met many US Jersey employees Met a lot of Jersey breeders and people

involved with the Jersey breed Learned the technical parts of a Sales Like:

◦ Prepping Animals◦ Feeding and Watering◦ Getting cows comfortable and ready to sell

Other things I gained from Sales

A big part of Appraising is being able to talk to and deal with farmers

Making Sure they understand the process Getting people signed up for REAP Keeping people on Reap Organizing things as an area Rep Being fair

Traveling with Jersey Appraisers

Learned how to score◦ Each trait has an individual score◦ Getting a ball park score on a cow before you

break her down◦ I also learned the measurements used to break

down each trait

Traveling With Jersey Appraisers

Reinforced my aspirations to become a Jersey Appraiser

Learned how to tie a slip knot Learned that I never want to live in a city as

big as Columbus I would prefer to not to work a job where

the majority of my time is spent in an office

Life Lessons I Learned through My Fred Stout Experience