Basin True Value 3017:
• NUMBER 1 for avg % ranking of 16 economically important EPD predictions, Number 2 for Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Number 4 for Calving Ease Direct score EPD, Number 5 for Hair Shedding score EPD and Number 9 for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Docility score EPD, Claw set score EPD, hoof Angle score EPD and Birth Weight EPD.
• Second high-selling bull at $75,000 for two-thirds interest was Basin True Value 3017 who recorded the very BEST average percentile ranking in the entire Basin 2023 calf crop for the traits of economic importance and slated to see heavy use in the Basin Angus herd and by his new owners from Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin and has continued that domination by coming to the very top of ALL ORIgen sires for that true balanced value evaluation.
• True Value and his brothers from the very first calf by their popular young sire made a stunning debut as 12 sons sold for an average of $14,521 as the top average of any sire group of 10 or more bulls from the 2024 Basin bull offering and Basin True Value 3017 was followed in the auction by his paternal brother who sold for $25,000 as a featured herd sire to a seedstock program in South Dakota.
• The sire of Basin True Value is always a favorite of visitors to ORIgen and the progeny of True Grit are reinforcing his EPD and bio-economic index predictions with 332 head in 45 herds recording an average birth ratio of 98 to make him ideal breeding virgin heifers in a wide range of environments including those at high altitude with his elite maternal Milk EPD predicting his daughters should be excellent production cows in an industry where weaning weight from maternal Milk has declined across the population in recent years and his first 30 progeny scanned record an average %IMF ratio of 108 and an average URE of 107 and the first paternal sister to True Value offered at auction selling for $20,000 for half interest as the second high-valued heifer calf of the 2023 Basin Elite Female sale after being featured on the cover of that sale book.
• Double bred to the Pathfinder Sire Basin Rainmaker 4404 through the $65,000 valued Pathfinder Dam of Basin True Grit that produced him as her first natural calf, this exciting young sire was also produced as the first natural calf of an “up and coming” young female by Basin Rainmaker 8584, considered by many to be the greatest breeding son of Basin Rainmaker 4404, the maternal potential of this new generation of the Basin Rainmaker line is virtually unlimited.
• Offering a moderate inbreeding coefficient of 3.86%, Basin True Value concentrates the power of the Basin breeding program as he is triple bred to Basin Rainmaker P175 through the flush brothers Basin Rainmaker 2704 and 4704, tracing four times to the immortal Basin Lucy 178E through the flush sisters Basin Lucy 3829 and 3803 and his double grandsire Basin Rainmaker 4404 was a natural son of the cornerstone Basin Joy 1036 whose mating to Basin Rainmaker P175 produced the grandam of the record-setting $600,000 Basin Jameson.
• Ultra-elite for Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, elite for PAP score EPD, Hair Shedding score EPD and Calving Ease Direct score EPD and better than breed avg for Scrotal Circumference measure EPD.