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Select Sires' Rodger S. Hoyt Dies



PLAIN CITY, Ohio, July 13, 2005 — Select Sires' 26 year veteran, Rodger S. Hoyt, age 71, Delaware, Ohio, passed away June 29, 2005 after a long illness.

"Rodger S. Hoyt was a mentor and sounding board for me," says Jeff Ziegler, Protein / Specialty Sire Program Manager, Select Sires Inc. "He had a deep interest and keen knowledge of dairy cattle breeding and was someone from whom I sought advice."

Rodger will be best remembered as a well-known and respected geneticist, first with Eastern A.I. Cooperative, Ithaca, N.Y., starting in 1959, then with Select Sires since 1974 and retiring in 2000, as vice president genetic programs. During this time, he was Chairman of the National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB) Ad Hoc Type Committee that developed the linear scoring protocol now in use throughout the world. He was also a 25-year member of NAAB's Dairy Sire Evaluation and Genetic Improvement Committee and was the NAAB's representative at the Korean-United States Dairy Seminars, Seoul, South Korea in 1981. He was a member of the National Dairy Cattle Breeding Workshop Planning Committee; the Linear Type Committee of the council on Dairy Cattle Breeding and the National Dairy Shrine.

His vocational honors include the State University of New York - Cobleskill Distinguished Alumni Award in 1983, the NAAB Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and the American Jersey Cattle Association - National All-Jersey Award for Meritorious Service, June 2005.

In his spare time, Rodger was a Delaware County Master Gardener; and former President of the Delaware Men's Garden Club. He is survived by his wife June, a son Steven (Eileen) of Ithaca, N.Y.; three daughters Cindy Baldwin of Vestal, N.Y., Martha Collacchi of Ithaca, N.Y., and Lauri Dickens of Oxford, N.Y.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc., is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.







Select Sires Inc., 11740 U.S. 42 North, Plain City, Ohio 43064 / Phone: (614) 873-4683 Fax: (614) 873-5751