FF Rito Athlete:
• This new addition to the ORIgen marketing system sold half interest for $30,000 to top the 2020 Spring Sale at Friendship Farm to continue the tradition of his famous and valuable dam.
• A maternal brother sold half-interest for $85,000 as the top-valued bull of the 2019 Friendship Farms Fall Bull sale where his flush brother, the young ORIgen sire FF Rito 8S35 was a $27,000 sale female with a full sister to them sold for $27,500 to Edisto Pines in the 2019 Friendship production sale where another maternal brother sold for $37,000 to Soaring Eagle in Missouri.
• The donor dam is one of the greatest daughters of the ORIgen and breed leader for Marbling score EPD Rito 3S10 and the Number 1 daughter of him for $Beef value index and she is a maternal sister to the ABS Global sire Rito 2Q26, a long-time breed leader for added ribeye area measure and growth genetics.
• Grandam is now a featured donor in the Pearcy Angus herd in Texas whose more than $350,000 in progeny sales include a $100,000 donor at Cox Ranches and a $23,000 donor for Wall Street Cattle Company.
• An interest in this high conception young sire recently sold to FB Genetics where he joins his maternal brothers FF Rito 8S35 and FF Rito Combined 9J6 in their progressive “Beef on Dairy” program.
• In the Spring 2021 NCE update: NUMBER 1 at ORIgen for Residual Average Daily Gain EPD, NUMBER 2 for $Beef value index and $Feedlot value index and NUMBER 3 for $Combined value index and top 10 for $Grid value index, Calving Ease Direct EPD, Calving Ease Maternal EPD and hot Carcass Weight EPD. Elite top 1% for $Beef value index, $Feedlot value index, $Combined value index, $Grid value index, hot Carcass Weight EPD and Residual Average Daily Gain EPD, top 2% for $Angus x Holstein index, $Angus x Jersey index and Yearling Weight EPD and top 3% for Marbling score EPD.