2025 ADGA National Convention

  • The consignor hereby warrants ownership of the animal free and clear of any and all liens or encumbrances.
  • The consignor may place a hold price on the consignment below which the goat will not be sold. The hold price cannot be raised once the animal is nominated. The consignor retains ownership if the bid does not reach the specified hold price.
  • The consignor agrees to pay the exact consignment fee within seven days of notification of acceptance by the ADGA Sale Committee as per the following formula: A consignment fee of $40.00 is required for up to a $500.00 hold price. A consignment fee of 10% of the hold price is required for a hold price, which exceeds $500.00. The consignment fee is credited to ADGA’s 15% commission. All ADGA consignment fees will total 15% of the selling price plus the $25.00 nomination fee. The consignment fee is forfeited to ADGA if the consignment fails to sell or is withdrawn without the consent of the ADGA Spotlight Sale Co-Chairs.
  • Within 30 days of the Sale, ADGA will send to each consignor the sale price less the 15% commission and less any accounts payable due ADGA. The consignor will provide a completed W9 to ADGA at the time the nomination is accepted.
  • Consignment must conform to ADGA Breed Standards, have correct and legible tattoos, be free of physical defects, and be sound and healthy. Otherwise, the consignment will be returned to the consignor at the consignor’s cost and the consignment fee forfeited to ADGA. Consignments are expected to be raised/managed on a CAE prevention control program.
  • Consignments must arrive at the Sale location (at the consignor’s expense) no earlier than Monday, October 21, 2024 and no later than Tuesday, October 22, 2024 by 4 PM; preferably earlier in the day. The consignments must be in place prior to the Consignors’ meeting. The consignors’ meeting will be held in the Spotlight Sale tent on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 by 6 PM. Each consignor shall provide, at his/her time of arrival, an interstate health certificate, ADGA registration certificate, selling displays, brochures, DNA typing results (NOTE: Mandatory DNA including parentage analysis when available of all Spotlight Sale animals. Proof of submission of DNA samples is required prior to acceptance for sale.) and ADGA Collection Form (when applicable), as well as any updated show or performance information since the time of nomination. The health certificate must show the animal to have been negative for the CAE testing within 30 days of the sale date and negative Tuberculosis and Brucellosis test within 30 days of the sale date. NOTE: The consignment must be tested for TB and Brucellosis even if your herd is tested and accredited TB and Brucellosis negative.
  • For the health of the consignment during and after the sale, the animal should have at least one inch or more of hair coat at the time of the sale. A full body clip, with a number 5 blade should occur no later than August 1, 2024. Absolutely no full body clipping is allowed after this date. A committee-approved fitter will make any necessary adjustments after arrival. Hooves are to be properly trimmed before arriving at the sale.
  • ADGA and the convention host committee provide housing with pens, hayracks, hay, grain, bedding, water, feeding, & water pails, tender loving care and management supervision from the time of arrival until shortly after the sale. Consignors may bring their own grain and hay if desired.
  • ADGA provides top show people to present consignments at the sale, unless it is instructed, IN WRITING, that the consignor will provide one. This document must be presented at the time of the consignors’ meeting. The sale co-chairs must approve the handler.
  • The ADGA National Sales committee representative and an assigned veterinarian will examine the goats upon arrival, throughout their stay, and will issue interstate health papers for exit. All other veterinary costs are the financial responsibility of the consignor.
  • ADGA agrees to feature the accepted consignment in the ADGA Official Spotlight Sale Catalogue(s) and other advertising.
  • ADGA provides reasonable safeguards for the health and safety of the consignments. However, responsibility of the animal and risk or loss, injury or death to the animal remains the consignors until the consignment sells.
  • ADGA provides free DNA typing for all Spotlight Sale consignments. The consignor shall receive a DNA typing kit from the ADGA office by email. Mandatory DNA including parentage analysis when available of all Spotlight Sale animals. Proof of submission of DNA samples is required prior to acceptance for sale.
  • Nubians and Experimentals with a Nubian in the immediate pedigree must be tested G6S Normal using ADGA’s preferred lab (VGL – UC Davis). Proof of a G6S N/N (normal) result is required prior to acceptance into the sale. ADGA will reimburse the cost of the mandatory G6S test when submitted to ADGA’s preferred laboratory (currently VGL) to consignors if their animal is selected for the Spotlight Sale and has a Normal (N/N) test result.
  • Substitution of a nominee/consignment because of death, sickness, or injury may be approved after presentation of the facts to the ADGA Sale Co-Chairs. ADGA will not accept a substitute that it deems is of lesser quality than the original nominee.
  • This contract, upon acceptance, becomes authorization for the ADGA Association Manager to transfer ownership to the successful bidder.
  • The ADGA Sale Co-Chairs decide the sale order after consulting with the members (in attendance) of the Spotlight Sale Committee. Lot number does not equal sale order. Sale order is released at approximately 9:00 am the day of the sale. The Committee shall decide how the sale order information is to be announced.
  • Consignment’s breeding activity, if any, both A.I. and natural service, must be disclosed in writing in full specific details, at the consignors’ meeting, accompanied by a copy of the A.I. sire collection form, to the ADGA Spotlight Sale Co-Chairs. Bucks must be of virgin status. If a consigned buck is found to have been used other than during semen collection, the buck will not be allowed to go through the sale and the consignor will be held responsible for all costs related to the animal, including transportation, health certificates and other items relating to the animal as a consignment. If the buck is collected, we request that you process no more than 30 straws. A copy of the ADGA Collection Form, signed and dated by both the processor and owner, and ALL of the straws collected must be made available to the buyer of the animal for no more than the cost of the collection. Should the buyer not desire the collection the consignor will retain the right to keep the semen for his or her own farm use. The committee prefers that does be sold open (not bred). If a consignment is bred, she must be accompanied to the Sale with a complete service memo.
    THERE SHALL BE ABSOLUTELY NO COLLECTION OR BREEDING ACTIVITY AT THE SALE LOCATION.
  • The performance of this contract is subject to the following: war (whether declared or not), armed conflict or the serious threat of the same (including but not limited to hostile attack, blockade, military embargo), hostilities, invasion, act of a foreign enemy, extensive military mobilization; civil war, riot, rebellion, revolution, military or usurped power, insurrection, civil commotion or disorder, mob violence, act of civil disobedience; act of terrorism, sabotage or piracy; plague, epidemic, pandemic, outbreaks of infectious disease or any other public health crisis, including quarantine or other citizen restrictions; act of authority whether lawful or unlawful, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, curfew restriction, expropriation, compulsory acquisition, seizure of works, nationalization; act of God or natural disaster such as but not limited to violent storm, cyclone, typhoon, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, earthquake, volcanic activity, landslide, title wave, tsunami, flood, damage or destruction by lightning or drought; explosion, fire, destruction of machines, equipment, factories, prolonged breakdown or interruption in transportation, telecommunication, electric current systems or oil and gas supplies; general labor disturbance such as but not limited to boycott, strike and lockout, go slow, occupation of factories and premises; shortage or inability to obtain critical material or supplies to the extent not subject to the reasonable control of the party relying on force majeure. It is understood and agreed that this contract may be terminated without liability by any party for any reason set forth herein by either party giving written notice to the other party within a reasonable time after the occurrence of the event relied on for termination. Nothing in this section is intended to eliminate or narrow the contract defenses of doctrine of impracticability, impossibility or frustration of purpose.
  • This contract becomes effective upon the acceptance of the nominee by the ADGA Spotlight Sale Committee.