Allan Cossentine, an employee of All West/Select Sires for 33 years, has surpassed the three-million-dose mark in semen sales and is now one of only three individuals in the U.S. to have reached this milestone. Cossentine of Hanford, California, started selling semen in 1978 with Eastern AI in Fresno, Kern and Kings counties. He started with his current employer in 1980, and has served dairy producers in Fresno, Turlock, Bakersfield and the Central Coast area and at one time worked as sales manager on the Coast and in Kern County.
He said he considers his customers to be friends and makes himself available whenever or wherever they need him.
“I’ve always looked at myself as more of a caretaker than a salesman,” he said. “So to me, this job was all about working in a wonderful industry with great people that I really have a personal interest in helping get their cows bred and pregnant with the best genetics in the world.”
He and his wife, Suzi, raised some of the first Pinzgauer cattle in California in the mid-1970s on their 10-acre ranch at the edge of Stockton. The cattle are a rare breed with origins in the Pinzgau region of Austria.
Over the years, he has coached Little League and Babe Ruth baseball and soccer, and has been involved with his community inside and outside the First Baptist Church he attends.
He and Suzi have four children and six grandchildren. PD
—From All West/Select Sires news release
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Allan Cossentine is one of three people in the U.S. to have surpassed the three-million-dose mark in semen sales. Photo courtesy of All West Select Sires.
