I was trying to refrain from posting on this thread, but I needed to chime in since I am actually putting straws of SAV America in my gals at the moment and throughout the next year.
Yesterday, I had a couple of brothers stop by to look at yearling bulls for the fall breeding season. I showed them a couple of two year olds I have left, a Harvestor son that is service ready, and some Internationals, along with Presidents. It took all of a few minutes for them to say "Tell me about those two bulls" which were both SAV President sons. They didn't have interest in anything else. I told them that the Internationals were excellent, and that Harvestor would make great females, that did not matter, they wanted the "look" and size of the President bulls, which are not even yearlings, but look thick as all get out and are correct from top to bottom.
What I'm trying to get at is that they did not know what they were looking at when they decided what they wanted. They didn't get a line of hype or "President sold for this much, so you should love this bull", they looked at them strictly on phenotype and what was standing right in front of them.
Another reason they really liked the President bulls is that they stood right beside them and the bulls acted as if no one was in the pen, they were unfazed, calm as can be. That went a long way with these buyers.
Now many on here will put up the "bs" emoji, and if you want to do that, fine with me, I know what we have, but if you want to PM for the number of these buyers, I will with their permission provide it to you, so you can chat with them and hear what they have to say. They are not professional seed stock operators, just cattlemen that are looking for quality to improve their herd quickly.
Their main intention was to see if I would sell heifers, which I won't, and they ended up bull shopping during the visit. They do want embryos if they can get an embryologist to do the work for them. I don't have embryos available yet either, I told them that my best President daughter might be a good candidate for them, or one of my Elation heifers in time.
Now for America, my reasoning for using him extensively lies completely in his pedigree. I know first hand what Blackcap May 4136 can do for a herd, I love what President has done, and I know that Madame Pride 0075 is a phenomenal cow maker. Through a little common sense, I saw that all three of those are wrapped up in one pedigree, SAV America 8018. Hence my reason for using him. I wanted him strictly because of the females he can produce. In fact I'm getting ready to breed a couple of Raindance daughters to him, which would be a first cousin mating, in order to get as much Blackcap May 4136 in the bloodline as possible. If that mating produces daughters, then I will look to breeding them with Hoover Dam as well as Net Worth (a serious daughter maker) with reversed sex sorted semen, courtesy of help from Trans Ova to get more females. It's a very long term plan, but it's all coming together.
The price that America brought at auction had NO BEARING whatsoever on why I wanted to use him. Sure, it's an interesting talking point, but there is a lot more to what he brings to the equation besides hype. Do your homework on Madame Pride 0075 and you will see what I'm talking about. You guys think I'm in the bull business, but it's embryos that I'm after.
At $80 a straw, SAV America 8018 is one of the best bargains around. It's hard to imagine that a daughter of America won't earn back $80 plus the cost of the AI tech, over her lifetime.