ADGA Spotlight Sale

The Spotlight Sale is the premier dairy goat sale event of the year, typically held during the National Convention. In 2025, the Spotlight Sale will be held in conjunction with the ADGA National Show in Grand Island, NE on Thursday, July 17, 2025.

While there are spotlights at the sale, the name better describes the scrutiny with which each animal is selected. The Spotlight Sale attracts buyers from throughout the United States and internationally, which increases the name recognition of sellers’ herd names and advertising of their herd. The buyers want top-quality, performance-proven, sound, and healthy dairy goats.

Spotlight Sale Nominations

The ADGA National Sales Committee is soliciting nominations for the 2025 Spotlight Sale. The Spotlight Sale is a unique opportunity to accentuate your accomplishments with your herd. Animals selected are of the highest quality available. The committee looks for dairy goats that excel in all categories using official DHIR, linear appraisal, show records, and DNA Parent Verified pedigrees. Nominate your very best to generate interest that will ultimately reflect on your entire herd.

The nomination deadline is May 31, 2025

Nominations will be informed of acceptance decisions on or around June 7, 2025. A public announcement of the Spotlight Sales animals will be made on ADGA social media on Monday, June 9.

Completed nominations must meet the following:

  • All nominees must be born before May 1, 2025. Bucks must be born within twelve months of the sale date and be of virgin status. See items to consider for more information on this.
  • Nominee Information, including a side and rear photo of the nominated animal. A top photo is recommended.
  • ADGA Four Generation Performance Pedigree for the nominated animal. The link to ADGA Genetics can be submitted via the nomination form
  • Six to nine photographs and information on supporting animals from both sides of the pedigree
  • $25.00 uploaded to your ADGA account for the nomination fee.
  • A completed and signed Spotlight Sale Contract: Spotlight Sale Contract
  • In 2025, please have the animal registered before submitting the nomination form. We understand extenuating circumstances, such as Embryo Transfer animals. If you have an extenuating circumstance, please reach out to the Co-Committee chairs BEFORE submitting your nomination.
  • Consignments arrive at the Sale site by personal vehicle or airline flight. Ease of air flight varies, dependent upon departure and arrival cities. If you plan to use this option to send your animal to the sale, begin to investigate and make arrangements as soon as possible. Care of your consignment is the consigner’s responsibility.
  • All nominees must conform to ADGA Breed Standards, have correct and legible tattoos, be free of physical defects, sound and healthy, and be free of CAE and abscess problems.
  • For bucks, absolutely no natural service is allowed before the sale date. If you do collect the buck, the National Sales committee requests 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 animals for no more than the cost of the collection.
    Should the buyer not desire the collection, the consignor retains the right to keep the semen for his or her farm use only.
  • The National Sales committee prefers that does be sold open (not bred). If a consignment is bred, she must be accompanied to the sale with a completed service memo.
  • Mandatory DNA, including parentage analysis when available, of all Spotlight Sale animals. Proof of submission of DNA samples is required before acceptance for sale.
  • Nubian nominations are required to have a G6S Normal (N/N) result through the ADGA-approved contact laboratory before being nominated and to be considered for acceptance into the Spotlight Sale.
  • A G6S Normal (N/N) result through the ADGA-approved contract laboratory is required for Experimental/Grade does with a Nubian listed on the immediate, visible pedigree (SS, S, SD, DS, D, DD) before being nominated to the Spotlight Sale.
  • ADGA will reimburse the cost of the mandatory G6S test when submitted to ADGA’s preferred laboratory (in 2025, VLG) to consigners if their animal is selected for the Spotlight Sale and has a Normal (N/N) test result. After selection of the animal, it is up to the consigner to submit a Support Ticket requesting reimbursement for the test.
  • Consignment’s breeding activity, if any, both A.I. and natural service, must be disclosed in writing, the full, specific details before the sale to the ADGA Spotlight Sale Co-Chairs, Sara Koehn-Walburg and Joseph Larson
    • THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO COLLECTION OR BREEDING AT THE SALE LOCATION.
  • The accepted sale animals are required to provide negative test results from a certified laboratory for CAE (only the results of an ELISA test will be accepted), Tuberculosis (TB) and Brucellosis tests within thirty (30) days of the sale.
    • Note: the consignment must be tested for TB and Brucellosis even if your herd is tested and accredited TB and Brucellosis free.
  • Digital submission and typed forms are preferred.
  • Please give the committee as much useful information and data on your nominee and their relatives as possible. Production records, linear appraisal scores, and official show wins are used in the are used in the scoring process and highly valuable.
  • Clearly identify pictures of relatives of the nominee and indicate their relationship to the nominee (i.e. maternal granddam or paternal half-sister, etc.) Having pictures of the Dam and Sire’s dam is recommended.
  • Make sure that any pictures you use are the best you have available – nothing less than you would put in an ad to market your herd. We suggest high-quality digital photos for submission. Please refer to this article written by Trinity Smith Malmanis for ANNDA regarding taking the “Perfect Photo”: https://www.andda.org/post/perfect-pictures
  • Give thought to the hold prices you indicate on your contract – high hold prices may adversely affect acceptance into the sale.
  • Consigners must have written permission to use photographs of animals that are the property of other breeders. Neither the National Sales Committee nor ADGA shall be held responsible if the consignor fails to secure said permission.

Selection Process

The National Sales Committee assures that your nomination will receive serious and thorough consideration in the selection process. The committee works very hard to put together a sale that is successful and a positive experience for all parties involved. Quality sells – especially where repeat breedings of proven animals are nominated as consignments.

Animals selected are based on the following criteria:

  1. Linear Appraisal Scores
  2. DHIR Records
  3. Show Records, including National Show
Submit Your Nomination