EXAR Cover The Bases 0819B:
• Number 6 for Docility score EPD and Number 10 for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD and Calving Ease Maternal score EPD.
• The first calf crop by Grenade at America’s largest registered seedstock operation was headlined by daughters that sold for $180,000 and $140,000 and his first sons were the core of the Express pens of bulls at the 2023 Cattlemen’s Congress in Oklahoma City with 29 spring yearling sons sold in the Spring 2023 Express bull sale for an average of $8,485 and in the Spring 2022 Express bull sale, 28 yearling sons of EXAR Grenade from his first calf crop sold for an average price of $8,643 and two of the top three yearlings for URE scan were sons of EXAR Grenade.
• Grenade was the anchor bull of the 2020 National Western Grand Champion Carload of Angus Bulls offers a unique and valuable EPD profile and an outcross pedigree for many of the breed’s most popular sire lines and his dam was the $320,000 Lot 1 top-selling donor of the 2020 Big Event at Express that is now a featured donor for Deer Valley Farm and Spruce Mountain Ranch.
• As a sire that can dramatically change the EPD profile of his progeny without sacrificing the frame size provided by their dams, Grenade is sired by the $190,000 record-setting Casino Bomber N33 that is on his way to being recognized as the top breeding son of KM Broken Bow.
• His $320,000 dam, who raised him as her first calf, is the most famous and valuable daughter of the now-deceased Pathfinder Sire Sitz Top Game whose growing list of top-producing daughters also includes the dam of the $70,000 two-thirds interest EXAR Jet Fuel and the $165,000 fall 2019 Sitz top-seller Sitz Resilient.
• Elite top 5% for $Weaned calf value index, Weaning Weight EPD, $Feedlot value index, Yearling Weight EPD, hot Carcass Weight EPD and Docility score EPD and better than breed avg for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Pulmonary Arterial Pressure score EPD, Hair Shedding score EPD, percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Udder suspension score EPD and Teat shape score EPD.