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39 Years Providing Profitable Genetics to Dairymen around the World. Taurus Service Incorporated, headquartered in northeastern Pennsylvania, (Wyoming County) is now in their 39th year of successful business. Taurus' slogan is "Profitable Genetics". To a worldwide clientele, Taurus Service markets and distributes frozen Bovine semen from over two hundred Taurus Code 76 bulls. The active proven sire line-up of Taurus Code 76 sires numbers fifty bulls. In addition to sires controlled by the company, semen is marketed from other A.I. companies. A large group of bulls await official genetic evaluation. Only the best sires in this group will enter the active proven line-up in the future. In the US semen is available from Taurus Sires, Browndale Specialty Sires, Foundation Sires, New Zealand Genetics and many specialty sires. A PROUD TRADITION AND A BRIGHT FUTURE - Taurus Service Incorporated has remained a strong, growing, independent A.I. company. Dick Witter states, "people do business with people," and feels the strongest asset Taurus has is the "Taurus family." In this day of A.I. mergers, Witter says there is a need for their company. From the beginning, Taurus has been the stud that stuck with the cow-sense philosophy. Taurus' proof is in the performance of their bulls. It's real proof, not just paper proof. This cow-sense philosophy begins with the understanding that there is no perfect bull. Witter states, "Taurus is proud of our accomplishments in these first thirty years, and we look forward to providing dairymen around the world with profitable genetics into the future." COMPANY BACKGROUND - Taurus Service Incorporated was founded by Dick Witter early in 1971. Paul Dann and Herb Steele became stockholders and directors along with Dick Witter when the company was formally incorporated. Dick Witter, President of Taurus, began marketing semen as Taurus Service Incorporated on June 15, 1971. Taurus originally started as a semen distributor in northeast Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 1973, Paul Dann joined the company as a Representative, at which time Taurus expanded its marketing area to include all of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. At this time, Taurus included distribution from other A.I. companies. Taurus also started importing semen from Canada. Taurus Service was the first U.S. semen marketing organization to develop distributorship agreements with individual Canadian A.I. companies. Herb Steele started working for Taurus Service in 1978. By the mid 1980's, Taurus was importing semen from every stud in Canada. Starting in the 70's, Taurus offered A.I. training schools and trained hundreds of dairymen to inseminate their own cows. Taurus started progeny testing Holstein bulls in 1973 and now samples 25 Holstein bulls, 4 Red & White Holstein bulls, 3 Ayrshire bulls, 1 Brown Swiss bull, 1 Guernsey bull and is currently expanding a Taurus Jersey Sire program. A cooperator P.T. program named TAP (Taurus Affiliated Progeny Herd) was started in 1990for Holstein herds. U.S.

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