KEMPTVILLE — Stouder Morty never made first place on Canada’s Lifetime Profit Index (LPI), which measures the worth of sons and daughters, though he did make the top 10. Nonetheless, in a barn filled with champions he’ll become the first bull at Eastern Breeders in Kemptville to join the millionaire club.

Within a month the Semex Alliance, of which Eastern Breeders is a member, will have a bull from which they have sold one million doses of semen. A dose of Morty’s semen sells between $30 and $40.

By August, Morty had sold 242,014 doses at home and 640,883 doses in 10 other countries. He has more than 16,000 daughters currently milking in Canada.

What makes Morty special is his ability to produce daughters with high milk production, combined with body capacity, width and sound udders. "The daughters can produce large volumes of milk easily with less stress," says Paul Stewart, the genetic program supervisor at Eastern Breeders.

Ten-year-old Morty was born to an American mother, sired by the famed Aerostar, bred at Arnprior in the Ottawa Valley. In 2002, Morty received his first proof as a U.S. bull. In 2005, he received his first proof in Canada.

In August 2007, the Semex Alliance had eight of the top 10 bulls on the LPI list, four of them housed at Eastern Breeders. Two have been locally sampled and bred: Braedale Goldwyn and Braedale Pagewire bred by Terry and Mark Beaton of Cumberland.