This is our first year with the vouchers too and they send us all of our information in the mail on how the vouchers work and we haven't received our yet. I called our greeter because the online reporting system was down yesterday and we need to send a thank you letter to our donor. From what I have been told my son can't get his voucher released until he does his thank you letter and first monthly essay. There is paper work for us and the seller and we have to apply for registration papers for the heifer from a breed associtation. It can be a cross breed but it has to be able to be registered as something. After all of this is done and the calf scramble office receives the paperwork they will release a check directly to the seller. They will not release to money to us and we can't buy the calf from family.