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Premier Gives Over $20,000 in Support to Scholarship Applicants
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Premier Gives Over $20,000 in Support to Scholarship Applicants

Premier Select Sires awarded over $20,000 to students through the 2024 Premier Future Ag Leaders Scholarship Program. Two students received $2,500 scholarships through the Johnny Daniel Memorial Scholarship and the Wayne Dudley Scholarship. Nineteen other students received scholarships of $500 to $1,000 in value. Six students received an Honorable Mention with a $100 cash award and...

Todd Gaby Retires after 36 Years of Service
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Todd Gaby Retires after 36 Years of Service

Todd Gaby, Dairy Coordinator in Premier’s Southwestern territory, retired on February 29, 2024 after 36 years of service. Please join us in congratulating Todd! Todd began working for East Tennessee Select Sires, an organization that would eventually become Premier Select Sires after several mergers, in October of 1988. He started as an A.I. trainer, while...

FerAppease®, A Revolutionary Product for Preventing Cattle Stress Response, Now Available through Premier Select Sires
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FerAppease®, A Revolutionary Product for Preventing Cattle Stress Response, Now Available through Premier Select Sires

Dairy and beef producers can help prevent cattle stress response and its effects on their animals by using FerAppease®. Reducing cattle stress can help reduce morbidity and mortality, prevent decreases in productivity, improve reproductive performance, improve cattle handling, and more. The active ingredient of FerAppease is a synthetic analogue of the Maternal Bovine Appeasing Substance...

Doug Lull Retires after 12 Years of Service
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Doug Lull Retires after 12 Years of Service

Doug Lull, Reproductive Services Specialist in Premier’s northern region, retired on February 22, 2024 after twelve years of service. Please join us in congratulating Doug! Doug joined our cooperative as an RSS in December of 2012. Before Doug began breeding cows for his career, he and his wife ran a dairy farm. “I have enjoyed...

Victoria Schwader Joins Premier as an Area Sales Manager
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Victoria Schwader Joins Premier as an Area Sales Manager

Please join us in welcoming Victoria Schwader to the team! She will be serving as an Area Sales Manager in Kansas.   Victoria lives in MO with her husband Tyler and their two daughters, Reagan and Presley. They live on Tyler’s family farm, which has been active since the family moved from Germany in the...

Roger Miller Retires after 50 Years of Service
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Roger Miller Retires after 50 Years of Service

Roger Miller, Reproductive Services Specialist (RSS), retired on January 31, 2024 after 50 years of dedicated service to Premier Select Sires and its preceding cooperatives. Please join us in congratulating Roger and thanking him for his service! Roger grew up on his family’s Holstein dairy farm, Lime Rock Farms in Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Roger, his grandfather...

Brian Dewey Joins Premier as Area Sales Manager
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Brian Dewey Joins Premier as Area Sales Manager

Please join us in welcoming Brian Dewey to the Premier Select Sires team! Brian will serve as an Area Sales Manager in Kansas. He is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he obtained a degree in animal science with a minor in business. “I am looking forward to working with our team to help...

Premier Hosts Three Penn State Externs
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Premier Hosts Three Penn State Externs

2024 PSU Externs from left to right: Calvin Dechow, Paige Peiffer, and Emma McLaughlin Premier Select Sires was excited to host Calvin Dechow, Paige Peiffer, and Emma McLaughlin, three Penn State externs, during the first week of January. The students spent a week of their winter break job shadowing different employees of Premier and learning...

Premier Select Sires Scholarship Opportunities Total $20,000 in 2024
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Premier Select Sires Scholarship Opportunities Total $20,000 in 2024

Premier Select Sires will award up to $20,000 to students within the Premier territory through the 2024 Premier Future Ag Leaders Scholarship Program. Two exemplary students will receive $2,500 scholarships through either the Johnny Daniel Memorial Scholarship or the Wayne Dudley Scholarship. Several other students will receive scholarships of $750-$1,000 in value. Scholarship application forms...