Breeding Insight works with breeders to find or create feasible solutions.
Breeding Solutions
Today’s specialty animal and plant breeders face a number of logistical, technical, biological and environmental challenges in their day-to-day work. Breeding Insight helps integrate various data-driven technologies, tools and workflows that fill efficiency gaps and increase the rates of genetic gains and improve production and performance for commodities grown in the US.
Common Breeding Challenges
Logistical & Technical Concerns
- Processes are slowed down by writing notes and manual labor to take phenotypic measurements.
- Software and workflow processes are incompatible with each other, which means using spreadsheets to manage data.
- Large amount of historical data and unsure how to manage.
- Data input from specific sensor systems or a large amount of historical data and unsure how to manage.
Logistical & Technical Solutions
Breeding Insight can support more seamless integration of existing software and workflows that help you save time and help you navigate newer technologies that lower the need for manual labor and increase your ability to improve phenotype data collection.
Biological Concerns
- Interested in using genomics assisted breeding techniques in any program to target certain traits or market types, but unsure how to get started.
- Important traits are only expressed in mature individuals, but trait collection is destructive or lethal.
- Species has a long generation time and breeding cycle, but would like to make genetic gains faster.
- Interested in adopting new technologies to help collect more quantitative trait data.
Biological Solutions
The advent of cheap genotyping and sequencing has leveled the playing field for any species to collect genetic data on populations or individuals. Using genomic data can feel overwhelming for breeders who are new to this data, but our Breeding Insight team, including genomic and bioinformatic experts who are ready to step in with the necessary know-how and expertise.
We also have a team of phenomic experts that make increasing efficiency in measuring and analyzing phenomic traits in your breeding program possible.
Environmental Concerns
- Remote work locations without cell service or WIFI.
- Need to report animal welfare data back to oversight agencies.
Environmental Solutions
Different work environments and needs often require unique solutions. Breeding Insight helps breeders test possible technologies in real-world settings and can make recommendations for affordable platforms based on specific needs and constraints.
Breeding Insight can help breeders identify key data points needed for animal welfare reports. We can also help to establish digitized methods for capturing these data quickly and securely.
