SimTalk, Early Fall 2017

With the first matings at the Sheek’s Ranch, Cabool, Missouri, in the spring of 1997, the ASA launched a young-sire evaluation project that changed the direction and collective futures of all producers and users of Simmental genetics. The Carcass Merit Program (CMP) randomly mated the top Simmental and Simbrah sires to commercial females with the intention of collecting progeny sire group, carcass information and when possible, tenderness data