Re: AIS Judges - Do Jugdes' Training, don't just criticize
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- Subject: Re: AIS Judges - Do Jugdes' Training, don't just criticize
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:07:31 -0700 (MST)
> I was dismayed because the the whole discussion freely discredited AIS
> judges, the AIS awards system and by implication, commercial iris growers.
> Without these three, there isn't an AIS. These negative discussions do
> more harm than good.
The thing that no-one seems to have noticed is that the discussion on
DC started out much the same way but many people jumped in and went to
bat for it. Thus vindicating a good iris and an award system that
honered it. As far as the commercial iris growers, IMHO the bottom line
for them is often the same as for any other business. They will provide
what the market requires. Many years ago my husband and I quit raising
Doberman Pinschers because the "type" of dog that was winning and
selling was not our "type". We had two choices, go our own way or breed
what was winning. We chose to go our own way and have not produced a
commercial litter since then. If the public discovers that FA does not
do well for them, it will disappear from the catalogs and everyone's
memory faster than a speeding bullet.
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
