This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/23/99 2:57:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I was just looking at the Evaluation rules on the NFHR Web site. I'm curious, are these adopted rules or are they a work in process? Who are the Reqional Co-ordinators for Evaluations? What are the regions that the co-ordinators represent? Who is the Evaluation Technical Delegate? I don't see any rule that Evaluations may not be held at private farms, what is the determination on that? We've had a year without any Evaluations this year, what's in store for the future of the process? >> Steve, I have been on the Eval. Committee since it's inception and participated in creating this program. I designed the Western tests. I am presently the Chairperson. This program will likely always be a work in progress as we refine and improve it as is needed. Our committee has recently completed updating the Eval. Handbook. I submitted the changes to Mike May a short time ago, but I have not looked to see whether he has yet made the changes officially. The Regional Coordinator is the person that takes charge of putting on an Eval. I was the regional Coordinator for the last Eval. held last summer here in OR. Anyone interested in putting one on makes a request to the Eval. Committee, which then approves the dates, site, etc. It then goes before the BOD for final approval. The Technical Delegate is the person who records all of the results during the Eval. and verifies identity by scanning microchips. That person is chosen by the coordinator. Usually that has ended up being Mike May. He is the one ultimately responsible for recording the official results, so always made sense to me to have him do the record keeping at the Eval. itself. That way I believe is easier on him rather than getting a third party involved and Mike having to decipher someone else's stuff. Originally, Evals. were not allowed on private farms. However, the Eval. committee changed that rule in the recent update of the Handbook. Evals. are permitted on private farms provided the facility meets requirements and is open to the public. In other words, no PRIVATE Evals. for just the owner's stock. Please email me privately if you have any other questions. Gayle Ware Field of Dreams Eugene, OR
