Updated: 4.27.2026
The Simmental breed has rightfully earned its place as a top choice for livestock producers worldwide. With their exceptional genetic traits, versatility, excellent carcass quality, calving ease, and docile temperament, Simmental cattle bring a host of benefits to the agricultural industry. Whether you’re looking to add more pounds at weaning, focus on end-point profitability, improve carcass merit, crossbreed for improved maternal performance, or simply enjoy the advantages of raising productive and growthy cattle, the Simmental breed will check a lot of boxes for you.
Not many people know that ABS was a charter member of the American Simmental Association. Today, our Simmental sires remain our second-highest-selling breed. We strive to deliver a comprehensive offering within the Simmental breed to serve our seedstock customers as well as provide the best crossbreeding opportunities for commercial producers.
What You Can Expect from our Simmental Bulls
- The best in purebred Simmental and SimAngus sires
- Balance and multi-trait excellence
- A focus on feed efficiency
- Sensible mature size and birth weights
- Designed for crossbreeding opportunities
Let’s get familiar with five Simmental sires that you should consider.
BEDROCK
BEDROCK is the foundation of the ABS Simmental lineup today – offering powerful, rock-solid phenotype with a great multi-trait data package. He’s a half-blood SimAngus™ whose sire, Tehama PATRIARCH was a long-time customer satisfaction leader and top seller for ABS. BEDROCK is a three-star calving ease sire that transmits undeniable muscle, body mass, and performance. He offers tremendous cow-maker traits and a top 3% All Purpose Index as well as a top 2% Terminal Index. Use BEDROCK to capture the best from both the Simmental and Angus breeds.
KLONDIKE
KLONDIKE has developed into one of the highest-quality and highest-satisfaction sires in the Simmental breed today. That’s no surprise based on his pedigree, which features two all-time favorites, starting with Cowboy Cut and adding the golden cross of TRUE NORTH on the top side. You get everything you’d expect with that pedigree in terms of calving ease and phenotypic quality, topped off with timeless maternal design and productivity.
RANCH MAKER
One of the most complete and exciting SimAngus™ bulls to arrive on the scene in many years, RANCH MAKER joined the ABS lineup as the top-selling bull in the November 2025 Irvine Ranch Sale. He’s been a great semen producer, but as a new bull in our lineup, he has been challenged to keep up with exceptional early demand. That demand is driven by a flawless multi-trait data profile, exceptional phenotype, and a young program-building kind of dam. The genetic power RANCH MAKER offers for calving ease, performance, end product, and maternal traits is unmatched in the industry today.
MARVEL
A true phenomenon, MARVEL is a “must use” Purebred Simmental sire with performance, power and phenotype. He’s a moderate Birth Weight bull that ranks among the tops in the population for Growth, Marbling and Muscle as well as both All Purpose and Terminal indexes. MARVEL is big-bodied, powerful, and attractive in his kind with top-end foot quality and Docility. This Galileo son is the total package and will put you out front.
ARROWHEAD
ARROWHEAD needs no introduction. He’s ranked at the top of the ABS lineup for sales and has earned a stellar reputation as a four-star calving-ease and maternal-trait sire in the process. He’s a high-accuracy sire that delivers proven calving ease with added muscle and shape in a moderate-framed package. That type and kind is translating into moderate framed, big-bodied females with very nice udder quality. ARROWHEAD daughters look to be highly productive and sustainable females that rank very high for customer satisfaction.
You can view these sires and the rest of the Simmental bull lineup through the ABS Bull Search tool. This digital tool is perfect for you to sort, filter, and select traits that matter to your herd and find your perfect match sire. Get a head start on next year’s genetic selection by using Bull Search to begin your genetic planning now.
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