Top Breeders & Top Owners of ABBA Maternal Merit Females

The Maternal Merit Award identifies superior cows based on their performance and identifies females that have an early onset of puberty, a regular calving interval and consistently produce offspring that perform above average. There are three levels of Maternal Merit awards; Elite, Supreme and Elite Plus. There are a total of 643 gray and 47 red Maternal Merit females in the ABBA. Of those there are 40 gray Supreme, six red Supreme and only two Elite Plus females in the entire breed. The two Elite Plus females are both gray and were both bred and owned by Steve Wilkins, of Flying W Ranch.

One was sired by +SRW MR. FLYING W 592/8 and the other was sired by (=) SRW MR FLYING W 449/6. J.D. Hudgins, Inc. is the breeder who has bred the most gray Supreme females, having bred 18 gray Supreme females, while for the red females, Texas A&M AGRILIFE Research has bred three of the six Supreme red females.

The bull who has sired the most gray Maternal Merit females is (+)JDH MR. CHARLEY MANSO 590/6 having sired 14 Maternal Merit females while on the red Brahman list MR. TAES 9049 sired three of the 43 Maternal Merit females. There are 27 gray females and one red female who have each produced two Maternal Merit females and only one gray female, JDH LADY PRATER MANSO 429/5, who has produced three Maternal Merit females. The lists below contain the Brahman breeders who have bred the most Maternal Merit Award-winning females and the owners with the most Maternal Merit Award-winning females.

We have divided the list into gray Brahmans and red Brahmans. These numbers include the Vanguard females also, as a Vanguard Cow will have received recognition for both ROR and Maternal Merit.