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Fertile Business

Sid Skrivseth has been artificially inseminating cows since 1968 since he was a young man in Wisconsin. Today Skriveseth lives in Bonners Ferry and is one of the best know AI guys in the area, including eastern Washington. He talked about his business at a ranch in Bonners Ferry on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Sid Skrivseth has spent his life with cows, never getting away from the bovine beauties even when he tried, like when he sold his Holstein herd in the 1980s when the farm crisis swept the Midwest. Somehow he always returned to cattle, perhaps thanks to divine intervention – Skrivseth is a devout Mennonite – or perhaps his skill at artificially inseminating cattle – a technique of inserting recently thawed semen into the cow’s uterus to impregnate them. It’s a crucial job in the beef and dairy industry. “I can’t get away from cows,” Skrivseth said, who has artificially inseminated more than 100,000 cows over 47 years. “I’ve always worked with cows. I can’t remember not working with cows.”/ Erica Curless , SR. More here .

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