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East Central/Select Sires Hires Summer Interns
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 06/29/2012

The Waupun-based East Central/Select Sires has hired two college interns for the summer.

Christine McFarland will serve as the communications intern, where she will assist in a variety of projects involving writing, editing and graphic design, and will represent East Central/Select Sires at various events throughout the summer.

A junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison double majoring in Dairy Science and Life Sciences Communication, Christine grew up on a 375-cow dairy farm in Watertown. She purchased her first registered Holstein in 2003 to have a quality animal to show at the Wisconsin Junior State Fair. Over the years she bought more animals and has grown her herd to 12 registered Holsteins.

She is a member of the Badger Dairy Club, Collegiate Farm Bureau and serves as the website coordinator for the Association of Women in Agriculture.

Also hired was Ryan O'Leary, who is serving as the member service intern. He will be responsible for working in the field one-on-one with the cooperatives customers performing artificial insemination services, as well as working with large herd tail chalking operations. He will also gain experience with the Select Reproductive Solutions and Select Mating Services programs.

O'Leary is a senior at UW-Madison majoring in dairy science with a business emphasis. He was born and raised on a registered Holstein dairy farm near Brandon. As a student, he is active in Badger Dairy Club, is a member of the UW-Madison Dairy Judging Team and is president of Babcock House. He is a student coordinator at the Dairy Cattle Center and is Co-Chairman of the Grounds Committee at World Dairy Expo.

East Central/Select Sires is a professional, artificial breeding cooperative serving the dairy and livestock producers in southern Wisconsin.

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