[AlpacaTalk] AOBA membership - is the truth out there?
So here I was, just looking around at some numbers I found at AOBA's
own website and at ARI's. Check this out. Each state has about 3 times
as many breeders as are AOBA members. Not all ARI breeder codes are
current breeders, but I have no way to break those numbers out. If
that's not interesting enough, look at the total of current AOBA
members. I pasted this list into Excel and ran the auto-sum function.
Excel says the total is 3693. AOBA says the total is 4484.
https://www.
So they're telling us AOBA is growing all the time, we have more
members than ever, yet their own numbers dispute that. And, privately,
they talk to members and ask what they feel can be done to get back
lost members. Hmmm.
So I sent my sliding scale membership fee schedule to the AOBA board
and suggested that this might get back those lost members, and may well
grow the membership. No one will join if they get no value from it. A
small breeder like myself can budget for maybe 2 shows per year. It's
more cost effective for me to pay the $75 per show. Yet since I want to
volunteer for my affiliate and serve as fleece show superintendent, I
am forced to pay the $125 farm membership and $50 show division fee.
Costs me money to volunteer. Something about that just isn't right. But
anyway, I got two responses already, and as basically blown off.
Surprise!
ARI AOBA
AK 60 6
AL 65 26
AR 46 16
AZ 202 65
CA 957 321
CO 796 306
CT 128 49
DC 3
DE 15 4
FL 272 82
GA 166 58
HI 10 3
IA 139 36
ID 169 54
IL 278 116
IN 305 114
KS 140 54
KY 197 79
LA 24 9
MA 168 49
MD 229 72
ME 153 65
MI 497 181
MN 186 74
MO 221 77
MS 23 8
MT 112 32
NC 203 74
ND 10 4
NE 66 20
NH 118 47
NJ 227 87
NM 173 59
NV 72 23
NY 600 238
OH 1,110 436
OK 92 37
OR 532 183
PA 590 264
RI 24 12
SC 70 32
SD 14 4
TN 166 74
TX 348 147
UT 104 43
VA 385 195
VT 130 56
WA 702 293
WI 351 143
WV 91 36
WY 66 19
total 11805 3693
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