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Nineteen Students Receive a Total of $19,500 in 2022 Premier Select Sires Scholarships
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Nineteen Students Receive a Total of $19,500 in 2022 Premier Select Sires Scholarships

Premier Select Sires awarded a total of $19,500 to 19 college students through the 2022 Premier Future Ag Leaders Scholarship Program. Two students received $2,500 scholarships through the Johnny Daniel Memorial Scholarship and the Wayne Dudley Scholarship. Seventeen other students received scholarships of $750 to $1,500 in value. Allen Graulich of Argus Acres, LLC, a 500-cow...

Premier Select Sires Offers Benefits to Members
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Premier Select Sires Offers Benefits to Members

Dairy and beef producers face more challenges than ever before as they seek ways to increase efficiency while dealing with labor shortages, growing input costs, economic challenges, and more. While Premier Select Sires is likely best known as a genetic provider, doing business with your local member cooperative opens the door to other benefits that...

Premier Hosts 2022 Penn State Externs
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Premier Hosts 2022 Penn State Externs

A few weeks ago, Premier was honored to host two Penn alprazolam 1mg State University students as externs for a weeklong career exploration experience. From January 3-7, Ryan Allen and Josie Allen job shadowed several Premier employees and spent a day at the Tunkhannock office to get a taste for what Premier does and learn...

Premier Select Sires Scholarship Opportunities Total $20,000 in 2022
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Premier Select Sires Scholarship Opportunities Total $20,000 in 2022

Premier Select Sires will award up to $20,000 to students within the Premier territory through the 2022 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...

Premier Select Sires Announces New Regional Sales Managers
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Premier Select Sires Announces New Regional Sales Managers

Photo, left to right: Sean Johnson and Kevin Lager Premier Select Sires welcomes two new Regional Sales Managers (RSM) to the management team, including Sean Johnson in the Central region and Kevin Lager in the Southwestern region. Each will transition into his new role in the coming weeks. “Premier is excited to have Sean and...

Premier to Co-Host Dairy Exploration Experience for High School Juniors and Seniors
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Premier to Co-Host Dairy Exploration Experience for High School Juniors and Seniors

The mission for the Dairy Leaders of Tomorrow Exploration Experience is to provide students and youth interested in dairy the opportunity to utilize formal education skills in hands-on experimental learning experiences. This year’s DLT Exploration Experience is designed to cultivate interest in a variety of careers available in the dairy industry, and will be held...

Premier Select Sires Offers 7 Percent Credit on Semen Purchases for August, September 2021
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Premier Select Sires Offers 7 Percent Credit on Semen Purchases for August, September 2021

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Premier Select Sires, Inc. is excited to announce that the cooperative will offer 7 percent additional savings to member-customers who purchase semen through the months of August and September, 2021. To enjoy this special benefit, Premier member-customers must simply purchase genetics from their sales team member during the designated months. Premier will offer the...

A Message from the Premier Board of Directors
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A Message from the Premier Board of Directors

“As a result of a recommendation of the Select Sires Inc. Board of Directors, five of the six member cooperative boards have voted to recommend that the member cooperatives unify into Select Sires to form a single, nationally-directed entity. The Premier Select Sires board of directors has unanimously voted against this proposal as presented. The...