08/13/2026
We sure appreciate the kind words Luke. Congratulations to Spry's Shorthorns and Adrian Goode on a great job of promoting Shorthorns in Australia.
Every now and then, it takes a set of commercial cattle reminds us what our business is really about.
Pictured are Adrian Goode of South Australia (left) with Luke after the Spry's Shorthorns sale in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales this past April. They're holding a framed photo that the Spry family presented to Adrian of a set of his grass-finished steers. 100% of these Shorthorn steers are carrying the influence of Muridale Thermal Energy 15A as either their sire or grandsire.
The results speak for themselves.
• 62 steers averaged 827 lbs Hot Carcass Weight (375 kg HSCW).
• 97% qualified as Milk Tooth, meaning they remained youthful while reaching impressive carcass weights.
• 98.5% graded into the Premium Teys Grassland Program, one of Australia's premier branded grass-fed beef programs.
Those numbers don't happen by accident.
Thermal Energy was bred by Muridale Shorthorns in Canada with ownership shared between Bowman Superior Genetics in the USA and Spry's Shorthorns in Australia. More importantly, he represents a breeding philosophy shared by all three programs.
None of these three programs are in the business for simply selling stock. We're in the business of helping our customers produce cattle that return more dollars. That means making the hard culling decisions, searching relentlessly for elite sires, and breeding cattle that combine performance, efficiency, carcass merit, longevity, and real-world profitability.
When commercial customers like Adrian consistently produce cattle that earn premiums and perform from pasture to the packing plant, that's the ultimate validation of decades of disciplined genetic selection resulting in good Shorthorns.
Congratulations to Adrian Goode on an outstanding draft of steers, and congratulations to everyone who has invested in the Thermal Energy sire line over the years. Success stories like this are exactly why Muridale Shorthorns, Spry's Shorthorns, and Bowman Superior Genetics continue to breed Shorthorns with one goal in mind:
Your success, not ours, is the true measure of our genetics. 🤝