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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...

Ethan Dearmon Retires after 15 Years of Service
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Ethan Dearmon Retires after 15 Years of Service

Ethan Dearmon, an Area Sales Manager (ASM) in Premier’s southwestern region, retired on September 30, 2023. Ethan has served the Premier cooperative for the past 15 years. Please join us in thanking him for his service and wishing him the very best in retirement! Ethan first joined Southeast Select Sires (which would eventually become Premier...

Jacob Johnson Joins Premier as Area Sales Manager
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Jacob Johnson Joins Premier as Area Sales Manager

Jacob Johnson has joined Premier as an Area Sales Manager in our Southwestern region. Jacob graduated from Kansas State University in May 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in animal science. He was active on the K-State livestock judging team, and he says that judging livestock has always been a passion for him. As opportunities arise,...

Select Sires Inc. and STgen™ Sign a Letter of Intent
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Select Sires Inc. and STgen™ Sign a Letter of Intent

PLAIN CITY, Ohio and NAVASOTA, Texas, August 18, 2023 – Select Sires Inc. and Inguran LLC (dba STgen™) have signed a letter of intent to combine Select Sires Inc.’s and STgen’s production, research and development functions into a new company. The six U.S. farmer-owned cooperatives that provide exceptional sales, service, and support for the Select...

Hitting a Grand Slam with SUNY Cobleskill
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Hitting a Grand Slam with SUNY Cobleskill

SUNY Cobleskill’s dairy program, in partnership with Premier Select Sires and Select Sires Inc., produced a bull calf that was genomically tested and ranked number three on the global Jersey Performance Index™ (JPI™) list. The calf initially had a JPI of +181, ranking him within the top ten globally. His JPI then increased to +197,...

Kevin Lincomfelt Joins Premier Select Sires as Sales Support Specialist
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Kevin Lincomfelt Joins Premier Select Sires as Sales Support Specialist

Kevin Lincomfelt has been named a Sales Support Specialist for Premier Select Sires’ Southern Region. In his role, Lincomfelt will assist the local Premier team in providing customers with services related to the Select Reproductive Solutions® (SRS®) program, the Select Mating Service® (SMS®), CowManager®, artificial insemination (A.I.) training, and more. He will serve primarily eastern Tennessee,...