Ethan Dearmon Retires after 15 Years of Service

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...

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Jacob Johnson Joins Premier as Area Sales Manager

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...

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

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,...

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Hitting a Grand Slam with SUNY Cobleskill

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...

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Kevin Lincomfelt Joins Premier Select Sires as Sales Support Specialist

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...

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Premier Gives Over $25,000 in Support to Scholarship Applicants

Premier Gives Over $25,000 in Support to Scholarship Applicants

Premier Select Sires awarded a total of $25,950 to students through the 2023 Premier Future Ag Leaders Scholarship Program. Two students received $2,500 scholarships through the Johnny Daniel Memorial Scholarship and the Wayne Dudley Scholarship. Fourteen other students received scholarships of $750 to $1,250 in value. William Coltrane of Pleasant...

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Premier Hosts Two Penn State Externs

Premier Hosts Two Penn State Externs

Premier was excited to host Abigail O’Shell and Haley Weidman, two Penn State externs, the first week of January. The students spent a week of their winter break job shadowing different employees of Premier Select Sires and learning about the cooperative. Thank you to these exceptional students for visiting with...

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Kristy Temple Joins Premier Select Sires as Reproductive Services Specialist Supervisor

Kristy Temple Joins Premier Select Sires as Reproductive Services Specialist Supervisor

Kristy Temple has been named a Reproductive Services Specialist Supervisor for Premier Select Sires’ Northern Region. Kristy is returning to Premier after previously serving as a Reproductive Services Specialist (RSS). As an RSS, she excelled in providing artificial insemination services and promoting the Premier Select Sires portfolio to dairy and beef...

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