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Q+A: Anouk Schurink – CBBPs and DTreo
If the world had been a slightly different place, New Zealand would be Anouk Schurink’s home now. It was April 2020 in The Netherlands, and she had sold most of her household items, had completed the lease on her flat, her flights were booked and her visa had been granted. Her new role with AbacusBio had her jet setting to Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Digital Phenotyping and the Future of Breeding
A New Era of Data-Driven Decision Making Digital phenotyping is emerging as a transformative tool in agriculture and horticulture. By collecting and analysing observable traits through digital imagery and synthetic datasets, this approach enables more accurate and informed decisions across breeding and crop management programmes. Complementary Expertise: AbacusBio and Synetic AI AbacusBio sees strong potential in
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Q+A: Carbon Calculators
AbacusBio is working to ensure that genetics is accurately represented in carbon calculators, particularly in calculating methane emissions from ruminants. This would allow farmers to account for genetic variability between animals and be incentivised for using genetic selection as a mitigation strategy – without compromising overall productivity.
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Sheep and beef farms, the answer to the dairy farm feed buffer
Buffering New Zealand’s agricultural sector against seasonal variability, rainfall deficits, and downpours is becoming increasingly important, and the sheep and beef sector may be the solution. This is the thought pattern of AbacusBio’s farm consultant Simon Glennie, who said as climate variability continues, the requirement for dairy farmers to have a buffer for annual feed
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Managing genetics for the greater good of agriculture and communities
How to drive genetic gain with no well-trained geneticists, no national database and minimal business infrastructure is a question that makes Peter Amer scratch his head. A recent visit to India and Indonesia created more questions than answers, but it was what he described as a trip of a lifetime and his career highlight to
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