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Semen Available!

Semen now available on HOOVER KNOW HOW through your local Select Sires rep!  Just in time for fall breeding, this powerful No Doubt son is poised for great things!  His first calf crop looks excellent - a daughter from Teixeira Cattle Co. will be featured in the 2020 Bases Loaded Sale in Denver!

Bull Test Champion!

Congratulations to Eagle Grip Cattle Co. on their Hoover No Doubt son that won Champion & High-Performing Growth Angus bull at the 2019 Cal Poly Bull Test! This bull had the highest test index among not just the Angus bulls, but among all breeds! Of all the test champions of the different breeds, this No Doubt son had the highest ADG, the highest WDA, and the highest ending weight by 285 pounds!  This bull was the top-selling bull in the event at $30,000 to Genex, and he tied as the top-selling bull in the history of this prestigious bull test!
Reg. 19470275
For more information, contact Roger Sosa at 209-604-1702

Hoover Genetics Fare Well at Purdue (IBEP) Bull Test

Congratulations to Mickey Angus on their high-performing bulls at the 2019 Indiana Beef Evaluation Program Summer Test! Their 3 sons of 38 Special from Hoover females were ALL in the top 10 Angus bulls in the test, their top bull placing 3rd! Mickeys were one of 3 breeders that consigned multiple Angus bulls and ALL of their bulls made the cut for the sale. For more information on these bulls selling October 19, please contact Kevin Mickey at 217-825-6832 or Tanner Mickey at 217-825-4723.

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Baldridge 38 Special  - Sire of Bulls

2019 Online Sale hosted by cci.live
Bids close October 22, 2019 at 7:00 pm Central

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dig into some tremendous female genetics from Hoover Angus including a Pathfinder full sister to No Doubt and a “Pick” of the fall 2018 Hoover heifer crop!  Also embryos from Hoover’s #1 indexing cow, rare embryos sired by Hoover No Doubt, as well as other unique genetics backed by 91 consecutive years in the Angus breed for the Hoover family.

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Videos now online at https://cci.auction/orgs/28/auctions/1035/timed

Industry Legend Hoover Dam Passes

On July 22, 2019, at 11 ½ years of age, after more than 10 years of residence at ORIgen, the ownership of Hoover Dam made the decision to bring this legendary sire’s life to a dignified conclusion.

Born on January 25, 2008 as the third calf from a Pathfinder Hoover Angus female, this top-selling bull of the 2009 Hoover Angus sale arrived at ORIgen two weeks after his first birthday. 

Hoover Dam was among the top 10 bulls of the Angus breed for progeny registrations in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.  He was one of only four bulls in the breed on the “Top 10” list of sires each of those four years, and the ONLY bull of these four bred in a herd that registers less than 1000 head per year.

From his first collection of 105 units at 14 months of age through his largest one-day collection of 846 units as a four-year-old, Hoover Dam was a consistent collector. His final successful collection was on June 12, 2019 of 213 units. There were 901 collection days that produced semen approved for sale that resulted in 238,813 units.

As of his passing, 233,396 units of that semen were sold or used by owners of the bull for a gross sale total of $4,514,565 with 15,406 A.I. certificates sold to register progeny of Hoover Dam in the American Angus Association herd book. Sold at $40 each, they generated another $616,450 in gross sales to push his total of semen and certificate sales to $5,131,015. Hoover Dam was the ORIgen semen sales leader in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017.  Although there are no official public records with which to compare, Dick Beck, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ORIgen, says “Hoover Dam is the only sire in history owned exclusively by Angus breeders to have ever reached or surpassed that sales total”.

In the 2019 American Angus Association Pathfinder Report, there are 85 daughters of Hoover Dam that are active Pathfinder Dams, nearly five percent of the daughters that have enough age to be eligible.  Hoover Dam himself earned Pathfinder honors his first year of eligibility.

As of his passing, Hoover Dam has 15,821 Angus progeny with AHIR weaning records.  He has been used on four continents with semen exported to Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Russia.

Hoover Dam has set and broken production and sales records at ORIgen and he truly epitomizes the “Breeder to Breeder Genetic Services” concept that is the foundation upon which the success of ORIgen has been built.

2019 Page County Fair - Hoover Angus Genetics

Morgan Rope of Clarinda exhibited the Reserve Champion Pen of 3 Junior Feeder Steers at the Page County Fair with steers purchased from long-time Hoover Angus customer Darrell Wagoner.  This year there were 13 pens in competition!  Morgan is a repeat winner of this contest with Darrell’s steers.  Pictured here is Darrell Wagoner and Morgan Rope in front of her Pen of 3.