My Fred Stout Experience

1. My Fred Stout Experience Presented By: Robert McGarry

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

3. In the Office • 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

4. In The Office • Catalog Preparations • Filing and organizing Pictures • Proofreading Catalogs • Finding Pictures • Reading Pedigrees and finding Pictures for individual Cows • Preparing PowerPoints

5. At the Sales • 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

6. Other things I gained from 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

7. Traveling with Jersey Appraisers • 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

8. 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

9. Life Lessons I Learned through My Fred Stout Experience • 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