Bowman Superior Genetics

06/11/2026

➡️Back in stock at Cattle Visions & Semex Beef and ready for those late spring shipments, BASIN has finally caught up with the demand from this spring; it's gotten that exciting!!!

🙌THANK YOU to EVERYONE who ordered semen and put BASIN in their females the last few months. All signs say he may be our high seller for Spring 2026, but we'll know more next month.

BASIN is owned with Spry's Shorthorns and Angus, and Outback Shorthorns, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺. (And wait until you see the progeny the Aussies are growing right now! It’s gonna be a big deal!)

06/09/2026

Gilman’s Myrtle 8H, donor dam of the $92,000-valued Gilman’s Clarity 20N, has been an excellent producer for us- we have a number of ET daughters put back in the herd and she’s raising a great Board Room this year.
Here she is coming in for her PG shot, and we’re still trying to make up our mind on how to breed her this spring… Your recommendations?

06/05/2026

Synching ET recips at the north farm this morning.
📸 credit: grandson Oscar Bowman (12)

05/22/2026

The BSG 2613 (Ronan x Liberty Valance) heifer is one of the calves that draws attention every time we do pasture checks!

05/21/2026

Everyone talks about using low BW AI sires on yearling heifers, and that’s important! But an equally important piece is making sure the BW EPD is highly reliable. A low BW number doesn’t mean much if there isn’t enough data behind it to trust the prediction.

That’s where accuracy matters. The ACC figure found under the EPD helps tell us how dependable that BW prediction really is. Higher accuracy means greater confidence that the sire’s BW EPD is close to his true breeding value.

This breeding season, BSG is using four AI sires on yearling heifers that average a .76 BW ACC figure. In other words, those BW EPDs are backed by an average of 76% reliability, giving us more confidence in making calving ease decisions that will yield success with lots of vigorous babies in 9 months!

📸 Studer’s Taylor Made 7Y (0.85 BW ACC.)
Photo by Dr. Les Mathers, Leveldale Farms, IL

05/15/2026

The BSG yearling females once again rang the bell 🔔 at ultrasound time this spring!

The group averaged a 5.02% IMF 🥩 with .28” (7mm) of Back Fat. Pretty darn good stuff for the [IMF : Body Condition] Ratio, but even more impressive is when you learn that they’ve been on 0.00% corn, or corn free diet their entire life. Further, there were no freaky outliers in the IMF scans that skewed the average, as the highest was only 6.7% IMF, just 1.68% greater than the average.

Needless to say, we’re awfully proud of the gals coming out of Greens Fork, and we’re sure excited to see their influence in the coming years!

Sires included:
BSG INDEX 2072
Gilman’s BASIN 151L
JSF RONAN 5H
BSG EASY PROFIT 2122
Gilman’s LIBERTY VALANCE 25J

📸 is BSG 2523, an INDEX x Myrtle 8H daughter.

05/07/2026

Remnants of days gone by. Memories representing fun times when the kids were active AJSA members.
Cheers 🍻 to some fun years.

04/16/2026

This one’s a dandy!
And he’ll be packed with muscle!
Sire: Board Room
Dam: Saskvalley Maggie 73R daughter

04/14/2026

TACTICAL ⬇️

Merriam-Webster:
- Cleverness in planning or maneuvering to accomplish a purpose.

Dictionary.com:
- Calculated.

02/11/2026

This goes hand in hand with what we shared yesterday. A Podcast that is certainly worth your time...

The industry has geeked out on genetics and genomics for seedstock operations for some time now…particularly on bulls. Tune in on your favorite platform to hear Lane Geiss and Patrick Wall talk about the ‘forgotten many’ in the selection process: commercial females. Zoetis addressed this void through a product called “Inherit.”

🔗Links in the comments ⬇