Select Sires

SELECTIONS - Winter 2006
Exciting Results From Your Modern Cooperative

By David Thorbahn, general manager, Select Sires Inc.

Does the fastest growing A.I. company in the Americas – in both dollars and units - exciting industry-leading research programs and returns that would excite even Wall Street investors sound like a stodgy, old-fashioned cooperative? Nope! The best news is you own the company and these industry leading results are returned to your bank account. That is how modern cooperatives work. Your cooperative is directed by businessmen who own and operate multimillion dollar businesses who just happen to be farmers. They expect results!

Nine of the past 10 years have resulted in record years for Select Sires. Your response to our superior genetics and service programs has resulted in unprecedented sales growth of more than 600,000 units in North and South America combined.

Leading Research

Select Sires’ financial results have come while expanding our large ongoing research programs in fertility and genetics. Select Sires has increased its research budget four-fold in the last five years.

Current research programs focus on molecular genetics, data collection, individual cow fertility, synchronization programs, sexed semen and semen fertility.

Leading Fertility Programs

You and your neighbors have responded well to our industry-leading fertility programs that are backed by sound research.

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Select is the clear leader in fertility, providing more bulls at +1 or higher for ERCR. We collect more than 1 million insemination records to monitor and improve individual sire fertility. Program for Fertility Advancement™ (PFA™) allows us to frequently perform fertility research for continued improvement. The results are clear as over the last three years our sire ERCR average increase of 0.5 confirms our continuous fertility improvement.

Select Reproductive Solutions™

SRS™ is a portfolio of reproductive service programs that allows us to tailor reproductivemanagement programs to fit individual needs.

It consists of a variety of investigative services through analytics, training programs, products and actual services.

SRS is designed to work with your local veterinarian, herdsman and other consultants to provide a unique solution to your problems.

PGA: The Industry’s Leading Genetics Program

The Program for Genetic Advancement™ provides you the best value for the dollar. Select Sires’ dairy and beef young sire programs are the nation’s largest and most costly of their kind.

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However, the expense is worth it as PGA, from sire summary to sire summary, provides more top sires as recognized by the breed associations than any program in the industry.

Select Mating Service™

Select Mating Service is the industry’s largest mating program. It provides the prime opportunity to reduce the effects of inbreeding and genetic recessives while providing the best matings.

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Thank you for your business. We know you have alternatives and hope you are proud of your industry-leading company.

If you have not tried Select Sires’ products or services, we invite you to visit with a customer who has and find out how you can become an owner and enjoy the benefits of consistently superior results that have made Select Sires the industry leader.

™Program for Fertility Advancement, PFA, Program for Genetic Advancement, PGA, Select Reproductive Solutions, SRS, Select Mating Service, SMS are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.

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