ST Ohio Heifer Center
Owner of specific location: Maurice Rosenstein
Manager: Paul Detwiler
Inguran LLC dba Sexing Technologies (ST), based in Navasota, Texas
one of five farms owned by ST Genetics https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/d/58612/files/2018/02/Career-Fair-pamphlet-v368gd.pdf
OUTDATED INFO (provides a history)
"feedlot location in South Charleston was in a great location for consolidation of cattle prior to the final destination, their export facility in Maine. Over 15,000 head of heifers have been exported from what is now known as the Ohio Heifer Center. Most of the exported cattle have been Holstein dairy cattle destined for Russia and Turkey. ST has filled multiple orders for beef cattle to Russia and shipped many open and pregnant Angus heifers to Russia for private cattle owners. ST’s main farm in Texas is home to 250+ mature bulls, many of them being beef breeds we don’t see in Ohio. ST was created in 2003 with the goal of producing 90% sexed sorted semen for use around the globe." https://www.ocj.com/2014/07/ohio-cattlemens-roundup-tours-clark-county/
"Now the facility, newly named S.T. The Ohio Feedlot, will raise and breed heifers to be sent to foreign countries, owner Maurice Rosenstein said. The breeding process will involve about 5,000 heifers at a time, which after 60 days will be shipped overseas to countries such as Turkey, Russia and India."
the company exported about 30,000 heifers over a four-year period
"The country’s largest indoor cattle feedlot has been purchased by a Texas company that will use the facility to breed cattle for foreign markets."
"The 188-acre indoor feedlot, which is licensed for 10,000 head of cattle"
https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local/ohio-feedlot-changes-hands/E7KQ7SggyW0q7Khupg7k8M/ (2010)
https://www.facebook.com/STgenetics-Ohio-Heifer-Center-2012779319004135/
(RE previous owner) "Or that rain was washing some of that waste into the nearby Little Miami, a national scenic river. They didn't know about Ohio Feedlot Inc. even though its 9,000 cattle generated about 131,000
tons of manure a year, almost double the amount produced by Dayton's 166,000 residents.
They didn't know because the owner didn't tell them." http://www.kuratrading.com/PDF/Megafarms.pdf
https://issuu.com/purebredgbj/docs/18hwexportdirhr
"The farm then multiplies the high-performing EcoFeed female cattle through reproductive techniques, including embryo transfer, the process of generating and obtaining embryos from a cow."
"5,500 cows and heifers" https://www.farmflavor.com/ohio/ohio-heifer-center-researches-for-the-future/
MAY 2019 "ST Genetics is a global company with labs and research facilities around the world. The company bought the Ohio research farm in 2010 and initially used the facilities to assemble and breed groups of dairy heifers before exporting them. Most were headed for Turkey or Russia, and the company exported about 30,000 heifers over a four-year period. However, as political and economic situations changed, the market for bred heifers evaporated, Detwiler explains. The farm then began focusing on research efforts and producing genetically superior embryos."
https://www.farmprogress.com/dairy/wide-ranging-research-ongoing-ohio-heifer-center
Previous Employee Reviews
Jan 2018 - "Very little compassion for employees, or animals for that matter. All management cared about was their paychecks, not the welfare of animals or employees." (Glass door)
