2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX Herd sires included in the 2009 Berkshire Herd Sire Index.

AUMC5 Daddy Sang Bass 11-7

GBI8 Black Ice 6-9

OHF6 Big Foot 46-2

BDB7 Money Talks 13-8

HENS7 High Octane 2-2

RCW6 Rare Earth 9-3

BDB7 Cool Cool Daddy 20-8 BDB8 Mr Big Stuff 2-8 BDB8 Raven 2-12

IASU6 Contender 47-3

BSF8 PSSS Willy Wonka 19-10 BTC3 Ring of Fire 5-1 BTC6 Junior 24-1

BTC7 Head of the Class 2-2 BTC8 Classic 34-2 BTC8 Junior 10-1

GBI8 Mr Royalty 22-10

IASU6 Lad 32-3

IASU6 Patches 73-3

IASU7 Lion King 12-2

IASU7 Makin’ History 56-1 IASU8 Black Bull 69-3 IASU8 Lion 40-2

ISU7 Gold Dust 11-1

BTC8 Making History 7-4

JTP6 Bone Collector 6-1

CCV5 Bigfoot 5-1

KSWV7 Prime Time 5-5

CC7 Head of the Class 10-2 CCV7 Lumberjack 19-4 CMW7 Wild Bill 6-5

ERCS6 Illini Pride 3-6

JTP7 The Fugitive 5-1

MFB5 Mr Wild Bill 82-1

MOTE8 Shine Me Black 4-1 NIAC6 Stallion 3-4

PA7 Dr M Peter 13-6

RCW7 Adams Rib 10-2

RCW7 Second Harvest 11-5 REED7 AJC Sherman 1-1 SBF6 Static 13-4

SBF7 Massey 30-3 SBF7 Ryno 28-3

THFS8 Dream On 2-3 TMF5 Tall Boy 29-4

TUT7 Atmosphere 133-3 VA6 Hustler 13-1

VA8 SGI Black Diamond 2-1 WPF7 Shifting Gears 2-2 WPF8 Stimulus 7-5 WPF8 Wiplash 8-3

Note: Boars are listed above in alphabetical order. Boars are grouped on the following pages by the boar owner who submitted the index listing. Turn the page for the boars' detailed descriptions.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX REED7 AJC Sherman 1-1 AJC Berkshires, Hultman Brothers & Bonnie Acres

• STC Scan Data: Wt. 300 lbs., WDA 1.781, BF 1.00, LEA 8.30 • He puts it all together in one package…powerful genetics, powerful performance and a powerful look. • Offers more rib and body than we have found anywhere.

SBF7 Ryno 28-3 AJC Berkshires & Hultman Brothers

• Iowa State Fair Scan Data: Wt. 344 lbs., BF .74, LEA 8.87 • This tough new addition to our herd boar battery has developed beyond our expectations and we believe his offspring will impress you. • Keep a close eye on this special sire.

IASU7 Lion King 12-2 AJC Berkshires, Hultman Brothers & Bonnie Acres

• SWTC Scan Data: Wt. 350 lbs., WDA 1.54, BF .82, LEA 8.3, IMF 4.15 — highest in the show. • This now deceased sire has left a son at AJC that is worth your trip to come and see…the “LION CUB” - HE IS AWESOME!

IASU7 Makin’ History 56-1 AJC Berkshires, Hultman Brothers & Bonnie Acres

• WPX Scan Data: Wt. 330 lbs., WDA 1.41, BF .82, LEA 7.9, IMF 4.15 highest boar in the show. • His genetics are an important part of our Berkshire breeding plan. • He has proven to be very tough and durable in all conditions.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX IASU6 Lad 32-3 Bennecoff Family Farms

• ½ English, from Iowa State. Sire was a full-English import. • This boar is big, deep and is making good females. • Napole and stress free.

MFB5 Mr Wild Bill 82-1 Bennecoff Family Farms

• 2005 Keystone International Champion Berkshire Boar. • Clean fronted, thick, and at four years of age, he is very agile and breeds naturally. • Napole and stress free.

OHF6 Big Foot 46-2 Bennecoff Family Farms

• Heavy boned, great female producer, and good meat quality. • Napole and stress free.

VA8 SGI Black Diamond 2-1 Bennecoff Family Farms

• ʼ09 SWTC Class Winning Boar. Figures of 9.1 LEA, 0.87 BF, 1.81 WDA/365 lbs. • Sired by SGI Black Diamond, the $5,000 top-selling boar at the 2008 SWTC. Dam was 2008 SWTC Reserve Champion Gilt, sired by Daddy Sang Bass. Littermate gilt was breed champion at Okmulgee County, OK. Littermate barrow was breed champion at Texas county show.

• Stress free.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX AUMC5 Daddy Sang Bass 11-7 Brad Davis & Austin McCasland

• THE LEGEND! • THE FEMALE GENERATOR! • THE PREMIER SIRE! • Daddy Sang Bass continues to be more impressive at 3-1/2 years old. • Premier sire at the 2007 SWTC, Premier Sire at the 2008 SWTC, Premier Sire at the 2008 WPX, Premier Sire at the 2008 STC!

BDB8 Mr Big Stuff 2-8 Brad & Ken Davis

Mr. Big Stuff combines all of the traits we feel needed to make better Berkshires for the next generation. We still believe that Berkshires need to be long bodied, structurally correct, well balanced, with an attractive appearance. A littermate to the 2009 SWTC Champion and top-selling boar, Mr. Big Stuff will generate big, lean, meaty, stout and well-balanced Berkshires. Call for semen availability.

HENS7 High Octane 2-2 Cottonwood Farm, Shady Brook Farm, Casey Conover, Four Generation Berkshires

• A heavy-boned, long-bodied boar with excellent flexibility and soundness. He is a combination of some of the oldest recognized meat quality lines and todayʼs Southwest show breeding. • He is producing gilts that have “Foundation Sows” written all over them. • 320 lbs., .87 BF, 7.7 LEA, 1.78 WDA

VA6 Hustler 13-1 Cottonwood Farm, Shady Brook Farm, Casey Conover, Four Generation Berkshires

• 2008 Iowa State Fair Premier Sire and a 2007 SWTC Class Winner. • Hustler is a boar that is wide-based, heavy-boned, and sound with added width and shape across the top. There are quite a few of his sons being used in both breeding and commercial herds. • 245 lbs., .48 BF, 7.0 LEA, 1.54 WDA

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX BTC6 Junior 24-1 Brice Conover

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He has the power and muscle of his sire, with more frame. Has sired numerous champions and high sellers. Tremendously consistent sire of bone, width and muscle. Stress Negative SEMEN FOR SALE

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Grand Champion Berkshire Male at the 2007 Fall Classic Extra bone and structure with good extension and width. Full sister sold for $3,000 at 2007 NBS® to Fishbachers, TX. Stress Negative. SEMEN FOR SALE

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Proven sire of excellent breed-leading boars! Sire of $20,000 History Maker (now deceased). Sire of Daddy Sang Base. Grand Champion Boar at World Pork Expo. SEMEN FOR SALE

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The $10,200 most-talked-about champion boar at the 2009 SWTC. He is the squarest made, widest based boar in the breed. Extremely athletic and sound, with tremendous bone, frame, extension and muscle. We are very excited about his potential.

CCV7 Lumberjack 19-4 Brice Conover & Ericka Trump

BTC3 Ring of Fire 5-1 Brice Conover & CC Berks

BDB8 Raven 2-12 Brice Conover, Harlan Reid & Brian Brand

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX IASU6 Contender 47-3 ISU Teaching Farm and A3 Co. Berks

• Weʼre pleased with what this boar has sired and we look forward to more by him. • He has a great pedigree, a great design and a great “look.”

IASU6 Patches 73-3 ISU Teaching Farm

• Patches looks to be a sire supreme—he puts together muscle and width and comes with a high meat-quality pedigree. • Watch for his progeny this summer and fall.

TMF5 Tall Boy 29-4 ISU Teaching Farm & Myron Dammann

• Bred by the “Master Breeder of Berkshires”—thanks for sharing him with ISU, Myron. • Heʼs a tough-made, wide-chested boar with more bone than you can imagine. • Nicknamed “Not So Tall.”

IASU8 Lion 40-2 ISU Teaching Farm

• With Stallion 16-4, Line 51, Special Reserve, and Blacksmith in his pedigree, this young boar is destined to be a great sire. • Stay tuned for future news!

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX BDB7 Money Talks 13-8 Greg and Beth Innerst

• Exciting young sire purchased privately from Brad Davis. • Pigs look great! Bone, width and length. Look for a few Money Talk entries at the Summer Type Conference and National Barrow Show. • Semen Available

GBI8 Mr Royalty 22-10 Greg and Beth Innerst

• Study the pedigree. • Meat Quality Extrordinaire. • Peter Lad, Count, Frontier. His pedigree says it all! MR MEAT QUALITY!!!

IASU7 Black Bull 69-3 Greg and Beth Innerst & Revolution Farms

• $1,750 class winner from the 2008 STC. • Bone, foot size, width, and body mass. • Sired by the $20,000 History Maker. Dam sired by Durango—Top Meat Quality Sire. • Watch for the BLACK BULLS!

PA7 Dr M Peter 13-6 Greg & Beth Innerst

• Sire is Abe Lincoln, one of the Top Intermuscular Fat EPD Boars! • On the dam side, Powerline 51 is one of the top boars for growth and leanness. • We obtained this boar from Pete for his exciting pedigree. He is a very agile, sound, heavy boned, functional boar!

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX RCW6 Rare Earth 9-3 International Boar Semen, Honey Creek Berkshires & Jim Lehe

• Out of the productive 36-4 sow. • From a strong litter of 13 weaned, most of the gilts were kept and are proving to be high producers. • His sireʼs bloodlines have proven to be among the best for meat quality—especially IMF. • For semen, contact IBS at 1-800-247-7877.

RCW7 Adams Rib 10-2 Honey Creek Berkshires, SGI, POB Japan

• His dam has now averaged over 11 weaned after 12 litters—truly a stellar female. She is the result of more than 20 years of consistent selection towards sow production. • His sire was farrowed 25 years ago—strong, outcross genetics. • Contact SGI at 1-800-247-3958 for semen.

RCW7 Second Harvest 11-5 Honey Creek Berkshires

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A powerful outcross boar, backed by a pedigree full of outstanding females. Designed for producers raising for the meat quality markets. Extremely strong-topped, well-balanced boar. Fresh, mobile boar with an excellent quality 8-8 underline. Clean, flat bone that goes with long-lived, productive hogs.

THFS8 Dream On 2-3 MR Hogs, Rodney Spindler & Seth Swenson

• KTB7 All You Want x BCGW5 Timber 30-1 • 2008 STC Reserve Champion Boar • Dream On was clearly the barrow sire at the STC, but also combines several different bloodlines into a truly unique package. • SEMEN AVAILABLE

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX MOTE8 Shine Me Black 4-1 Mote Farms

• Our modest attempt at photographing this boar doesnʼt do him justice. This home-raised son of Ring of Fire is WIDE. He is the widest based and stoutest-made Ring of Fire son I have seen. The icing on the cake is that he carries the width and mass with ease and combines it with that great show pig look everyone is chasing. • His first progeny are on the ground and we can promise you with width from this rascal is breeding on. More pictures (chest and rear) are available at www.motefarms.com.

WPF7 Shifting Gears 2-2 Mote Farms

• This boar is built right from ground up—starting with big, even toes that all point in the right direction. He is naturally wide from front to rear and plants his feet out on the corners and tracks with an effortless, smooth stride. • Shifting Gears has all the muscle, look and style you want in a barrow boar, combined with the structure, bone and growth we all need in our breeding stock. His pigs are stout, have a great look, and grow fast. • If you want your Berkshire herd to keep progressing forward, you had better be Shifting Gears. • SEMEN AVAILABLE.

BTC8 Junior 10-1 PDK Genetics

• BTC Junior 24-1 x BTC Kindergarden Cop 3-4 • Placed second in class, behind the champion, at the 2008 Iowa State Fair. • .89 BF, 8.11 LEA at 331 lbs.; 102.8 SPI

SBF6 Static 13-4 PDK Genetics

• CRG5 Unlimited 12-2 x WKF3 Saki 18-3 • Sire and Grand Sire are both NBS® Super Sires. • .76 BF, 7.3 LEA at 330 lbs.; 4.90 IMF

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX CCV5 Bigfoot 5-1 James Parlett Jr.

• Our choice of all of the 2005 NBS® boar entries. • He excels in foot size, long eye (8.6 at 360 lbs.), levelness and thickness of rump.

GBI8 Black Ice 6-9 James Parlett Jr.

• Structurally correct, super sound, big footed, with lots of muscle!

JTP6 Bone Collector 6-1 James Parlett Jr.

• Bone Collector has a huge frame size with great flexibility. Heʼs got extra muscle, with his foot size. This is a direct son of You Had Your Chance.

JTP7 The Fugitive 5-1 James Parlett Jr.

• Sired by Dr. Hook, The Fugitive is extra long bodied, heavy boned, with good growth. Two littermate gilts were champion and reserve champion bred gilts at the 2008 Pennsylvania Farm Show.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX BTC8 Classic 34-2 Matt & Megan Ritter & Brice Conover

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Briceʼs popular $4,400 purebred Berkshire boar entry at the 2008 Fall Classic in Duncan, OK. Sired by BCGW5 Timber 31-1, a proven sire of champions. Dam is sired by the $20,000 record-selling Berkshire boar, CC6 History Maker 3-1. This boar combines extreme muscle shape and width with eye appeal, balance, design and soundness.

CC7 Head of the Class 10-2 Revolution Farms

• Pictured is CC& Head of the Class 10-2ʼs sire, BCGW6 Head of the Class 23-2, the $13,500 Champion Boar at the 2006 NBS®. • Dam is sired by IASU3 Line 51 39-9, the #2 Meat Quality Sire at the 2005 NBS® Progeny Test. • Dam produced a $2,100 class winning gilt at the 2006 WPX for AJC Berkshires. • A long-bodied, bold-bladed, big-ribbed, heavy-structured boar with lots of muscle. • A unique outcross pedigree for the Berkshire breed!

IASU7 Black Bull 69-3 Revolution Farms & Greg and Beth Innerst

• 1st place boar at the 2008 Summer Type Conference. • Sired by the $20,000 record-selling Berkshire boar, CC6 History Maker 3-1. • Dam is sired by IASU4 Durango 51-1, the #1 Meat Quality Sire at the 2006 NBS Progeny Test. • Show ring success combined with excellent growth, carcass and meat quality traits!

BTC7 Head of the Class 2-2 Eric & Lizzie Schafer

• This boar has already proven his worth as an outstanding sire! He is the sire of the $3,500 NBS® 2008 Hog College Gilt, the $3,100 2008 Team Purebred Foundation Female, and recently sired the $1,400 SWTC purchase by the Waterman Family. • For the past two years, he has produced numerous show pig champions across the nation for several youth. • We purchased this boar from Brice Conover at the 2007 STC. This boar will produce hogs that are perfect in their design, sound in their structure, wide in their skeleton, stout in their bone, and still have plenty of lean muscle shape. BTC7 Head of the Class 2-2 has been a proven sire that will continue to produce champions and hogs that impact the breed.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX BDB7 Cool Cool Daddy 20-8 Shaffer’s Gold Rush, Harvey, Hendricks & McCasland

• Daddy Sang Bass x Fired Up; .47BF; 7.28 LEA • Cool Cool Daddy is a littermate to the 2007 Team Purebred National Jr. Show Grand Champion Berkshire Gilt. • Here is a great son of the very popular Daddy Sang Bass boar. Cool Cool Daddy is bred to sire champion Berkshire barrows and gilts. He is as good designed and profiling as any Berkshire boar anywhere. He is really stylish and clean fronted and super sound and flexible. He has a huge, massive, square hip and sets his feet down square out on the corners. • 2008 Ohio State Fair Results: Cool Cool Daddy named reserve premier sire and sired the Open Show Grand Champion Berkshire Gilt. • STRESS NEGATIVE & NAPOLE NEGATIVE

BTC8 Making History 7-4 Shaffer’s Gold Rush & Brice Conover

• History Maker x Traveler; .49 BF 8.4 LEA • $7,000 Grand Champion & Top Selling Berkshire Boar at the 2008 STC. This boar needs to be used on a lot of sows!! He is sired by the $20,000 History Maker boar and out of a really good sow at Conovers. • Many breeders said at the show that this was the best boar that Brice Conover has raised. Problem free and complete are the best words to describe Making History. He is really heavy boned with a big foot and forearm. His flexibility and structure are extremely good and yet he still has the style and look to sire champions. This is the perfect choice to use on your Cool Cool Daddy daughters. • STRESS NEGATIVE

SBF7 Massey 30-3 Stassen Family Berks

• Named Massey for his massive muscle, massive foot size, and massive length of body. • His pigs are stamped the same way. • We feel that he has developed into quite a boar from the immature boar we bought at the WPX. • He is moving our herd in the right direction!

NIAC6 Stallion 3-4 Lyle & Darla Wipplinger

• A 2008 NBS® Super Sire. • His progeny pen had the 2nd highest ADG of 23 Berkshire pens. • His offspring are impressive!

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX CMW7 Wild Bill 6-5 Ken Shaffner & Family & Wabash Valley Berkshires

• The 2007 Illinois State Fair Reserve Junior Champion has done a good job for us.

ERCS6 Illini Pride 3-6 Ken Shaffner & Family & Wabash Valley Berkshires

• The 2006 STC Champion Boar continues to sire problem-free pigs with style and production. • .76 BF, 8.3 LEA, 1.56 WDA at 280 lbs. • He has sired champion and class winners on the state and national levels.

ISU7 Gold Dust 11-1 Ken Shaffner & Family & Wabash Valley Berkshires

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• Youʼre going to hear from this guy! • Bred by Illinois State University, and shown by Michael Stoll at the 2008 World Pork Expo where he stood 2nd to the champion. • Thick and heavy muscled, with outcross meat quality in his pedigree. His first pigs are outstanding and we bred him to 33. • .84 BF, 8.3 LEA, 1.67 WDA at 325 lbs.

KSWV7 Prime Time 5-5 Ken Shaffner & Family & Wabash Valley Berkshires

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• He may be the best looking mature boar on the place! • He continues the long-lived Prime Time line which produced, among many other champions, the 2007 World Pork Expo gilt, selling for $1,100. • On the damʼs side is Major Move and the Darlene line which produced the 2008 NBS® Hog College Gilt.

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2009 BERKSHIRE HERD SIRE INDEX BSF8 PSSS Willy Wonka 19-10 Tuthill Family Farms

• This was the 2008 NBS® Champion boar we purchased from Black Spring Farms. • He is described as being extremely thick, deep and heavy structured.

TUT7 Atmosphere 133-3 Tuthill Family Farms

• Sired by TUT6 Atmosphere 75-2 • .58 BF, 7.2 LEA, 1.36 ADG, 295 lbs., 3.70 IMF

WPF8 Stimulus 7-5 Wippel Family Berks & Bauer Berkshires

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Reserve Champion boar at 2009 SWTC in Belton, TX. Littermate gilt was Reserve Champion Berkshire female at 2008 Fall Classic, Duncan, OK. Grand dam was 2005 Grand Champion Berkshire gilt at Austin, MN. Owned with Justin Bauer, Marion, OH. A very popular Berk boar at Belton, one with a huge amount of bone and muscle, one that tracks as wide going away from you as any Berkshire you will find anywhere. If you want to make Berkshire show pigs with eye appeal and pop, order semen by call Jeff Wippel at (740) 404-1148.

WPF8 Wiplash 8-3 Wippel Family Berks

• U.S. History was the Champion Berk boar at the 2007 NBS®. • Mother was the Champion gilt at the 2007 Ohio State Fair. • Grand dam was the 2003 Champion Berk gilt at the OSF that raised the Res. Champion Gilt at the NBS® 2005. • A littermate gilt to Wiplash was named Res. Champion gilt at the Ohio State Fair. • Wiplash was also the Grand Champion Berk boar at the 2008 OSF. • This boar is bred to produce females. For semen call Jeff Wippel at (740) 404-1148.

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