Since he was born, the dark, silver roan Index 2072 has been a standout. His dam was the most massive made, biggest middled of all the high-volume Task Force daughters, and she transmitted that softness and depth into this standout son of Thermal Energy. One of the coolest made sons of old Thermal Energy, he is very moderate in his stature and super square hipped with strong bone work and he just floats along the ground while on the prowl. There is tremendous muscling in this bull with ample shape expressed in top, lower quarter, and forearm.

Properly named, this young sire writes a beautiful genetic script excelling in maternal strength, Stayability and Marbling while giving up nothing on his genomic enhanced resumé.
First proving himself in a commercial herd, we are excited to have Index back in Greens Fork and look forward to what he will do on our cow herd where he will get a large portion of the females in 2023 and beyond. This sire can get anyone excited about the Shorthorns business.

A mid-5 frame, wide-hipped, deep quartered, big volumed, stout legged creature with a striking & flawless profile, plus an outcross pedigree to all popular sire lines today. But dig deeper than what’s on the surface… Afterall, it’s not just about what they look like, but what their resumé tells us their progeny can do…

Liberty Valance is unmatched in the American, Canadian & Australian databases as the ONLY Shorthorn animal, 1) purebred or percentage, 2) parent or non-parent, 3) active or deceased, at his superior levels of traits of greatest economic significance; STAY, CED & MARB, combined with commanding pound-adding projections ranking in the Top 5% or higher. His modest Birth weight (87 lbs), scale crushing performance at Weaning (WR@106) and Yearling (YR@107) combined with an astonishing 157 IMF ratio, proved this genomic outlier is on a trajectory to legendary status.

Further, of the 2021-born bulls offered at live auction that rank amongst his heights for the profit value indexes of the greatest impact to the value chains of money-making daughters ($BMI) and Shorthorn beef ($F), ZERO match his Stayability, and NONE are backed by pedigrees (Sire & MGS) as full of dependable performance data via real progeny proof as this superstar.

No accident – it’s performance you can trust and bloodlines you can believe in.

If we all want to grow in making more Shorthorns industry relevant and entice the sophisticated commercial cattleman to invest, driving up the demand and therefore the price of Shorthorn bulls, it’s studs like Liberty Valance that we will have to lean into. A once in a lifetime sire, we are proud he will roam the pastures of Greens Fork. BSG was lucky to grab the winning bid and we are humbled from learning all the names of aristocracy who also pursued this new age Durham. That tells us all the keen stockmen found him too. Knowing this, we are not keeping this consummation of genetic progress exclusive.

Semen for sale. Contact Phillip.