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NUMBER 1 for average percentile of 20 economically important EPD predictions, Number 3 for Calving Ease Direct score EPD, Number 4 for Calving Ease Maternal score EPD and Birth Weight EPD, Number 7 for Hair Shedding score EPD, Number 9 for Functional Longevity EPD and Docility score EPD and Number 10 for Teat shape score 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 who has seen heavy use in the Basin Angus herd and by his new owners from Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin with a high volume of semen sold for export to Australia and New Zealand.

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 to make him ideal for breeding virgin heifers in a wide range of environments including those at high altitude with his elite maternal Milk EPD predicting that his daughters should be excellent production cows in an industry where weaning weight from maternal Milk has declined across the population in recent years.

A paternal sister to True Value sold for a valuation of $40,000 as the second high-valued heifer calf of the 2023 Basin Elite Female sale after being featured on the cover of that sale book and in record setting 2025 Basin female sale, four paternal sisters sold for an average of $23,000 headlined by the $50,000 top selling fall yearling selected by Pollard Farms.

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.

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.

Elite top 5% for Hair Shedding score EPD, Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, Calving Ease Direct score EPD and Birth Weight EPD and better than breed avg for weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, Functional Longevity EPD, Pulmonary Arterial Pressure score EPD, percent Heifer Pregnancy EPD, Scrotal Circumference measure EPD, Docility score EPD, Claw set score EPD, hoof Angle score EPD, Teat shape score EPD and Udder suspension score EPD.

Jack Laurie of Breeder Genetics is marketing semen from Basin True Value 3017 in Australia.