Back in 2016, while attending a conference in Salt Lake City as a master’s student, Caeli Richardson presented one of the few posters focused on methane emissions in agriculture – a niche topic at the time. Fast forward to today, and nearly every animal science conference she attends features multiple sessions dedicated to reducing environmental …
Neville Jopson is an “AB OG” (an AbacusBio Original). The route to AbacusBio Growing up in East Otago, Neville wanted to be a marine biologist, just like Jacques Cousteau on the telly. By the time he was university age, he’d spent enough time on friends’ farms to know that agriculture was his calling. He headed …
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 …
Simon is a farm consultant with AbacusBio and one of New Zealand’s top Farmax practitioners. He is known for his ability to identify the needs of individual farming families, before helping them develop a plan that meets those needs. Simon is equally experienced in the corporate agriculture space, ensuring appropriate systems are in place and …
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 …
Some of our favourite apps Dtreo: Dtreo, our flexible, cloud-based recording and analytics system is designed to support breeding programs by creating insights and information from performance data for any livestock species. The platform is suitable for various scales of operation, from single farms and integrated value chains to national programs and can be customized …
Projects we are working on: Sustainability is at the forefront AbacusBio projects. Here are two shining examples of how international collaboration and interdisciplinary innovation have to be at the centre of our future:
In 2023, AbacusBio moved rapidly forward on a deliberate journey to reshape our business, aligning it more closely with the evolving needs of our clients. In our world characterized by constant change, we remain steadfast in our commitment to embracing and leveraging change as a catalyst for growth. The work we do has helped our …
Case Studies AbacusBio has partnered with several organizations in developing countries, offering expertise on trait prioritization, bioeconomic valuation, and product profile development for staple food crops. This includes work with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and the Tanzanian Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) to understand rice stakeholder prioritization and conduct bio-economic modelling. We have also …
Following a successful year of collaboration, AbacusBio and Bayer have agreed to expand their partnership in the area of predictive plant breeding. This marks AbacusBio’s largest collaboration to date, which is anticipated to have a far-reaching impact along numerous crop supply chains. As part of this multi-year collaboration, the companies will work together to incorporate AbacusBio’s leading expertise in prioritisation and valuation of crop attributes to advance Bayer’s products that deliver grower, market, and …
