With immigration reform on the nation’s mind, the New York Times recently highlighted the issue in an article titled “Fate of Immigration Bill May Hinge on Farm Districts.” New York Farm Bureau President Dean Norton, whose family operates a fifth-generation dairy, commented in the article on the power of farmers to influence decisions.

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.