I am in the procress of setting up a website for our farm. Do I need to get permission from the photographers to use pictures we have already purchased on our website?

The first years. Chapter 2
 
Haying is an art form. If you have a good field and Mother Nature is willing to play along with you and if you are lucky…. very lucky ….you will get a good crop of hay.
 
Personally, I am convinced that farmers and ranchers qualify as gamblers.
 
My vet, Jim Perry, once told me that, “ Ranchers are the only people that can go broke six times in a row and can hardly wait to go back again next year.”
 
 I think he is right. He certainly is right about the state of my cattle when I call him in the middle of the night.
 
 When I live in California, I have no idea of what all goes into making a bale of hay that winds up in my barn loft in California. All I know is if I call the “hay guy” and pay him enough money, then 30 hay bales appear in my barn loft.
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This information has apparently been posted on the GoMorgans website and I assume it will be up on the AMHA website soon if not already present.

I read it through and would recommend anyone read it who is interested in having a solvent organization going forward. No one needs to be told how tough the economic times are and we are rapidly approaching the point where the cost of seemingly endless litigation could cripple the AMHA’s ability to function in a productive and necessary fashion.

I have no idea whether or not Marjorie Hazelwood and her associates have a solid case and evidence of wrongdoing. Like most matters of this type, there are likely areas which can be portrayed either way, depending upon your viewpoint. My point is not to argue one side or the other and certainly not to start an unpleasant discussion. Rather, it is to say that we all need a solvent, functioning breed registry and this is not, in my opinion, the right way to go about maintaining it. If a majority of the membership feels the current BOD and management team are lacking, then they should be voted out of the office and replaced. If more transparency is felt to be needed, the membership should make those demands through appropriate channels. If nothing else, people should attend BOD meetings and make their voices heard if they are unhappy with governance.

I would really encourage anyone interested to read this document in detail and then think for a few moments about the financial costs involved in complying with this just this first volley. This kind of destructive behavior within the organization has to stop or we are not going to have an organization at all.

http://www.gomorgans.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/plaintiffsf
irstsetofinterrogatories11-14-08.pdf

Susan Overstreet