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Number 8 reducing Mature Height EPD and Number 10 Calving Ease Maternal score EPD as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update.

Mead Mercury was the $85,000 top-selling bull of the March 2024 Mead Farms Bull Sale. Purchased with several other progressive breeders, Mercury combines breed-leading muscle, outstanding thickness, a great look, solid feet, and still does an excellent job of covering the bases on paper.

From his first calf crop, Mercury produced the Lot 1 and 2 flush brothers chosen to lead the 2026 Hoover sale catalog and their flush sister who leads the female division records the NUMBER 1 Weaning Weight EPD among all the females EVER produced in the famous Hoover Angus herd.

The owners of Mercury expected him to have the unique ability to sire heavy weaning weights for their customers who sell their calves by the pound at weaning combined with modest mature weights that keeps cow size in check to fit a wide range and variation of feed resources. 

Mercury grew up in the tough fescue country of central Missouri at Mead Angus where mothers have to make a living or they get hauled to town with no excuses and no special treatment, just good cow sense and good genetics and Mercury worked very well in natural service at Hoover Angus in 2024 on a large group of heifers.

Mercury’s muscle is evident not only by viewing the bull, but his 17.7” ribeye gives him an off-the-charts 1.44” of ribeye per hundred pounds of body weight! Hoover Angus customers like muscle, and this bull certainly offers it! Mercury also offers higher Marbling potential for our customers feeding out their calves and selling them on a grid.

His sire Basin Safe Deposit was the 2020 Montana Performance Bull Co-op top seller that offers a unique combination of foot quality, carcass merit, and curve bending spread with outstanding phenotype. Cattlemen who understand structure and how it relates to foot quality have described Safe Deposit as a legitimate foot improver.

Elite top 5% $Weaned calf value index, top 15% Claw set score EPD and better than breed average $cow ENergy value index, foot Angle score EPD, Calving Ease Maternal score EPD, ability to store Fat EPD, reducing Mature Height EPD, weaning weight from maternal Milk EPD, reducing Mature Weight EPD, Residual Average Daily Gain EPD and Scrotal Circumference measure EPD and designed to sire Prime on Purpose as of the May 22, 2026 NCE update.