Every seedstock operation has a guarantee of some kind. Some are “guaranteed” to turn their back on you when a problem arises with words like “well, that’s the cattle business!” We want to be the exact opposite of that perspective. Our guarantee is this: You’re our customer. You’re important to us. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase and willing to tell others the same. Our bulls are 100% guaranteed through the first breeding season (August 31) for health, fertility, accidents, and disposition. If you have a problem with our bulls, give us a call and we’ll make it right. Our first step will be to try and replace the bull. If we can’t do that we’ll arrange credit at next years sale. Finally, if credit is not satisfactory, you will be refunded the purchase price of the bull. Your responsibility will be to contact us when a problem arises. Please don’t wait until next years bull sale to let us know of any prob- lems. Your success is important to our success! Bull Guarantee
About EPDs
The EPD itself does not imply “good” or “bad” performance, only whether the performance of progeny is expected to be above or below that of progeny from average parents. The birth weight and calving ease EPDs are the most commonly misunderstood. For the birth weight EPD, positive values indicate heavier-than-average birth weights. For calving ease EPD, the more positive the value, the easier the bull calves. API (All-Purpose Index): Evaluates sires for use on the entire cow herd (bred to both first-calf heifers and mature cows) with the portion of their daughters required to maintain herd size retained and the remaining heifers and steers put on feed and sold grade and yield. TI (Terminal Index): Evaluates sire for use on mature cows with all offspring put on feed and sold grade and yield. Using API and TI: First, determine which index to use; if you’re keeping replacements use API, if not, TI. Then, just as with EPDs, zero in on the unit difference between bulls. (As described above, index units are in dollars per cow exposed.) The difference can be used to determine how much a bull is worth compared to an - other. Or, put another way, how much you can pay for one bull compared to another. For example, when buying an all-purpose-type sire, you can quickly figure a bull scoring +100 for API is worth an extra $6,000 over a $50 bull if both are exposed to 30 cows over 4 years ($50 diff. x 30 hd. x 4 yr. = $6,000). A percentile-ranking chart is required to determine where a bull’s index value ranks him relative to other bulls in the breed. For percentile rankings or more detailed information about EPDs and $ indexes visit www.simmental.org.
EPD Averages
CE BW WW YW MCE MLK MWW CW YG MARB BF REA API TI
Larson Bull EPD 0.40 -0.02 0.89 147.1 90.9 Hybrid Breed Average 11.4 0.0 77.2 119.7 6.9 23.6 62.4 37.3 -0.18 0.38 -0.03 0.67 132.6 81.6 Larson Cow Herd Avg 9.7 0.7 82.3 128.3 6.6 27.2 68.4 43 -0.2 0.4 -0.02 0.89 133.3 83.1 11.1 0.0 90.1 142.4 7.2 27.2 72.2 50.9 -0.17
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