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Select Sires’ Professional Technicians Gather Advanced Training

PLAIN CITY, Ohio, Oct. 30, 2007 — In September, 20 professional technicians from the United States and Germany met for the Annual Technician Conference where they received advanced education in serving Select Sires’ customer-owners.

“Select’s staff of professional technicians fills one of the most important roles within our organization,” said Joel Mergler, vice president of marketing and training for Select Sires. “Producing more pregnant cows is the basis of our operation and our technicians are on the front lines fulfilling that goal every day. National Technician Conference is an excellent occasion to provide them more expertise and give them the opportunity to share ideas with their colleagues.”

The participants received advanced training on the topics of estrus synchronization programs, factors affecting conception, Select RePRO Analysis™, fertility research, communicating with Latin American workers, dairy sire programs and Select's gender SELECTed process.

Attendees included: Lloyd Tolman, Cache Valley/Select Sires; Chad Bailey, Rick Ellerbrock, Cormac Irwin, Jon Parker, Andy Thomas and Dan Walker, COBA/Select Sires; Eric Gudex and Bob Merten, East Central/Select Sires; Bruce Clark, Rick Dey, Larry Hunt, Don Knaus and Mike Lee, NorthStar Cooperative; Phillip Stayton and Doug Stensland, Prairie State/Select Sires, Bob Heimbach and Bill Mitchell, Select Sire Power; and Edgar Diekmann and Uwe Mueller, World Wide Sires, Germany.

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.

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