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Why does Senegal export raw cashew nuts while importing processed cashew nuts from India and Brazil every year? Why do some countries’ retailers stock only a few locally manufactured food products, while others have an extensive agriculture industry and rich culinary traditions?

The exploitation of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, system design solutions, and orchestration technologies is crucial to remain competitive and drive fundamental shifts in the global agribusiness sector. Based on the new technologies, big data can truly transform the agricultural sector by having the right tools and statistical software to integrate various data resources and predict results accurately.

Improved data collection and accurate predictive analytics will help farmers adapt to climate change and lead to better decisions, both pre-and post-seeding, increasing crop yield and increasing quality.

VSNi work with a range of commercial and ‘not-for-profit’ organisations in agribusiness across the globe, providing analytical software and experimental design tools to further their work.

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Sustainable agribusiness with VSNi 

For over 20 years VSNi has developed a range of data and analytics software to support scientists, researchers and breeders within the biosciences. Designed by statisticians with non-statisticians in mind, our products are ideal for users looking for exceptional decision-making tools that are able to accommodate increasingly large and complex datasets. Fully documented with user guides, knowledge bases and video tutorials, VSNi’s products are easy to use - should you need it you can even get help directly from the team who developed the software!   

Genstat provides an easy-to-use environment where only a few instructions or selections from the options menu are needed to undertake simple or more complex analyses, bringing reliable and accurate analytics to your processes. Data from diverse sources is easily imported and made ready for analysis using the efficient data preparation tools, and Genstat’s data visualization options help to identify insights from your statistical analyses and truly get the most from your data.

ASReml is powerful statistical software specially designed for mixed models using Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML) to estimate the parameters in an R environment. Linear mixed effects models provide a rich and flexible tool for the analysis of many data sets commonly arising in animal, plant and aqua breeding, agriculture, environmental sciences and medical sciences. ASReml is used in commercial applications world-wide for its reliability, speed and efficiency when making sense of large, often messy data sets.

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VSNi software tools can add real value to agribusiness

Agribusiness

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Animal breeders face a continuous challenge to improve breeding stock while reducing costs and minimizing environmental impacts. New technologies have substantially increased the amount of data available, leading to improvements in animal feed efficiency, management of genetic variation and better overall health. Recent advancements in areas such as quantitative genetics, genomics, high-throughput phenotyping, physiology and many others, have made breeding activities more cost-effective and productive. 

VSNi works with animal breeders to provide data analysis solutions that help create better breeding programs.

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Animal Breeding

For over 20 years VSNi has developed a range of data and analytics software to support scientists, researchers and breeders within the biosciences. Designed by statisticians with non-statisticians in mind, our products are ideal for users looking for exceptional decision-making tools that are able to accommodate increasingly large and complex datasets. Fully documented with user guides, knowledge bases and video tutorials, VSNi’s products are easy to use - should you need it you can even get help directly from the team who developed the software!

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Animal science solutions - improve your livestock outcomes

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Plants provide us with food, clean air, water, fuel, clothes, medicines and much more.  Humanity depends on plants; therefore, plant science is essential. Using a multidisciplinary approach, plant scientists analyse the biology of plants, their relationship to the environment and how this knowledge can be applied to face all number of challenges, such as ensuring food security in the context of population growth and climate change. 

From the domestication of the first agricultural plants around 11,000 years ago to the recent genome editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, plant scientists have been improving the quality of life for people around the world.

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Plant Science

For over 20 years VSNi has developed a range of data and analytics software to support scientists, researchers and breeders within the biosciences. Designed by statisticians with non-statisticians in mind, our products are ideal for users looking for exceptional decision-making tools that are able to accommodate increasingly large and complex datasets. Fully documented with user guides, knowledge bases and video tutorials, VSNi’s products are easy to use - should you need it you can even get help directly from the team who developed the software!

**Genstat** provides an easy-to-use environment where only a few instructions or selections from the options menu are needed to undertake simple or more complex analyses, bringing reliable and accurate analytics to your processes. Data from diverse sources is easily imported and made ready for analysis using the efficient data preparation tools, and Genstat’s data visualization options help to identify insights from your statistical analyses and truly get the most from your data.

**ASReml** is powerful statistical software specially designed for mixed models using Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML) to estimate the parameters in an R environment. Linear mixed effects models provide a rich and flexible tool for the analysis of many data sets commonly arising in animal, plant and aqua breeding, agriculture, environmental sciences and medical sciences. ASReml is used in commercial applications world-wide for its reliability, speed and efficiency when making sense of large, often messy data sets.

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Plant science – fertile analyses, optimised outcomes

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With the recent collapse of many fish populations, along with a number of new species being listed as endangered, aquaculture is now more important than ever. Wild fish have been exploited for generations and the oceans can no longer naturally meet the demand for seafood. Aquaculture can help ensure access to healthy and environmentally friendly protein options to feed the world’s growing population. Compared to other farmed proteins like beef, pork and chicken, seafood has the highest protein retention, the lowest feed conversion ratio and the lowest greenhouse gas emissions. Aquaculture is crucial to improve the health of our planet and the health of our population, but it needs to be carried out in a sustainable and socially responsible way, considering food safety and animal welfare. The ability to understand aquatic ecosystems and evaluate options for sustainable fishing and aquaculture is dependent on data and data analysis. VSNi is here to help.

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Aquaculture

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Aquaculture solutions - manage, evaluate and optimise

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With our population increasing and agricultural land decreasing it is essential to find ways to sustain the breeding of plants and livestock for human consumption. As a collective, we need to increase food production while at the same time reducing its environmental footprint and adapting to the effects of climate change.  

To overcome these challenges it is necessary to disrupt the system: this is what Agriculture 4.0 have been doing. The fourth agricultural revolution focuses on the Internet of things (IoT), precision agriculture and the use of big data to drive agriculture. Sophisticated technologies such as GPS technology, aerial images, robots, temperature and moisture sensors, genome editing, and many others, help to deliver a more profitable, efficient, safer and environmentally friendly agricultural industry. As a company that specialises in the life sciences, VSNi is ideally placed to help agriculturists, ensuring modern solutions for data analysis.

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Data Analysis for Agriculture

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Agriculture solutions - develop healthier, higher yielding crops

Agriculture

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It is said that every living organism has a relationship with every other element that makes up its environment. The interactions among organisms and their environments are mutual: the environment influences organism and organisms alter their environment. Life is continuously changing in response to interactions from living organisms and resources. VSNi are committed to helping Ecologists to understand these interactions.

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Ecology

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Ecology solutions - exploring data, diversity and connections

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VSNi statistical analysis software is widely used by lecturers for teaching analytics in universities and higher education settings around the world. Additionally we supply many PhD students with our software to support their research work particularly in the fields of plant and animal science, ecology and environmental sciences.

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Education

Genstat in particular is favoured as it is ideal to both promote good statistical practice and encourage innovation: 

*   All standard analyses are accessible by menus 
*   Advanced menus build on the concepts used in the simple ones 
*   General algorithms provide the right, not least inappropriate analysis 
*   All help is context sensitive 
*   Programs can be written in the Command Language to allow development of new ideas 
*   Users own code may be incorporated 
*   Programs created can be formed into procedures (i.e. new commands) and shared

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Genstat

Additionally, ASReml and ASReml-R are chosen usually in more advanced research settings. ASReml is a powerful statistical software specially designed for mixed models using Residual Maximum Likelihood (REML) to estimate the parameters. Linear mixed effects models provide a rich and flexible tool for the analysis of many data sets commonly arising in animal, plant and aqua breeding, agriculture, environmental sciences and medical sciences.

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ASReml

More than 600 educational establishments have licensing arrangements with VSNi ranging from several individual users at a single site to entire ‘campus-wide’ licenses. As part of out commitment to the education of statistics we are usually able to adjust our pricing to make these powerful analytical tools accessible to those in the education sector, both academics and students alike. 

Check out our products or if you’d prefer contact us now with your requirements to receive a quotation

Supporting the teaching of statistical analysis in higher education

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The importance of studying insect biology and behaviour cannot be overstated. With more than one million different species of identified insects, these are the most abundant group of animals on earth. From the cultivation of silkworms that began around 4700 BCE in China until the present day, insects are part of our daily life. Entomologists have made enormous contributions to our understanding of insects and their relationship with the environment, disease, agriculture, biological diversity, evolution, and many other fields. In agriculture, insects can be beneficial as pollinators and decomposers, but they are also the vector of many human, animal and plant diseases. As a company which specialises in the life sciences, VSNi is ideally placed to ensure and accurate research and analysis of your entolomogical data.

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Entomology

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Entomology solutions - monitor, measure and evaluate

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Global warming, climate change, carbon footprints, pandemics: environmental concerns are a talking point for everyone and getting more exposure than ever. Environmental science studies the Earth, its resources, and the effects of human actions on the environment. We need to create a more sustainable relationship with the environment. To this end we must increase our ability to predict climate variations, better manage natural resources, and prevent changes in the infectivity and virulence of organisms. The grand challenge of environmental scientist is to understand the complex environmental systems that humans depend on and advance our knowledge of the natural world and its various intersections with society. VSNi is here to help.

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Environmental Science

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Environmental science - data visualisation, analysis, and insight

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All the diversity of life on Earth is explained by evolutionary processes. Understanding the similarities among vastly different forms of life, the changes that occur within populations, and the development of new life forms is only possible thanks to Evolutionary biology. The theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859 has improved our lives in practical ways. For instance, in the medical field, evolutionary studies help in the development of vaccines, antibiotic resistance studies, drug development and understanding emerging diseases that can rapidly become pandemic, e.g., the COVID-19 outbreak. VSNi provides analytical solutions that offer flexibility and utility to keep our software ahead of the game and ready to help evolutionary scientists overcome their challenges.

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Evolution

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Evolution solutions - from dry bones to fully-fleshed insights 

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Food manufacturers face a continuous challenge to increase productivity and save on costs while still meeting quality control and safety standards. You need systems that will help meet the needs of customers and also satisfy government regulations.

From government bodies such as the [UK Food Standards Agency](https://www.food.gov.uk/) and [AgResearch NZ](https://www.agresearch.co.nz/), to independent food processors and manufacturers, VSNi provides quality management and analytics software to support your business.

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Sustainable food manufacturing with VSNi 

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VSNi software tools can add real value to food science

Food Science

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The forestry sector is of major ecological, economic, and social importance. Forest scientists must plan and implement sustainable management of forest ecosystems while dealing with external factors such as climate change, population growth, loss of genetic diversity and naturally occurring fires. Technology such as (GIS) maps and satellite imagery make it possible to precisely monitor forests, obtaining real-time data for measuring forest depth and growth.  The ability to gather accurate genomic information in forest breeding programs enables you to increase the genetic gain of tree species and varieties. VSNi provides the analytical solutions you need to bring viable research and results to the forestry sector.

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Forestry

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Forestry solutions - protect and optimise growth

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The earth is our planet – our only home. Anyone involved in geography knows this all encompassing science is essential to understanding how our planet works and providing the knowledge we require to take care of it. Genstat data analysis software provides the specific tools you need to analyse spatial, temporal and other significant data.

The earth is our planet – our only home. Anyone involved in geography knows this all encompassing science is essential to understanding how our planet works and providing the knowledge we require to take care of it. Genstat data analysis software provides the specific tools you need to analyse spatial, temporal and other significant data.

The earth is our planet – our only home. Anyone involved in geography knows this all encompassing science is essential to understanding how our planet works and providing the knowledge we require to take care of it. Genstat data analysis software provides the specific tools you need to analyse spatial, temporal and other significant data.

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Geography

As a company which specialises in the life sciences, VSNi is ideally placed to help you reach your goals quickly, efficiently and perhaps most important, accurately. With a growing awareness that new technologies can support and often accelerate results, Genstat provides all the tools you need to produce viable results from your geographical research.

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Geography solutions - map, model and explore

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Geology, also known as “Earth science”, is the study of the structure, evolution and dynamics of the Earth and its natural mineral and energy resources. The better we can understand Earth’s history, the better we can foresee how events and processes of the past might influence the future. Geology plays an important role for mineral and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation, evaluating water resources, understanding of natural hazards, the remediation of environmental problems, and providing insights into past climate change. Many processes such as landslides, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and climate change can be hazardous to humanity. Understanding the underlying geologic processes is essential to monitoring and alleviating the damaging effects of these processes and has direct relevance to the needs of society. VSNi is committed to helping geologists to ensure accurate research and data analysis.

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Geology

As a company which specialises in the life sciences, VSNi is ideally placed to help you reach your goals quickly, efficiently and perhaps most important, accurately. With a growing awareness that new technologies can support and often accelerate results, Genstat provides all the statistical tools you need to make the most of your data.

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Geology solutions – analyses for rock solid results 

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Water – the elixir of life. A resource we cannot live without, and yet nearly one and a half billion people do not have access to fresh water. It is clear the science of hydrology plays a major role in not only sustaining, but also improving our ever changing world. Water is a necessary part of our every day existence and therefore so is hydrology. The significance of the science of hydrology, combined with its closeness with other biosciences such as meteorology and geology, demand tools that are tailored to the interdisciplinary biosciences. VSNi are committed to helping hydrologists to ensure accurate research and data analysis

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Hydrology

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Hydrology solutions – from oceans of data to rainfalls of insight 

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All scientific advancements that ensure food security in the context of population growth and climate change are of little value unless farmers have access to high quality seeds. The major goal of seed technology is to increase agricultural production through the spread of genetically pure and good quality seed. Seed scientists have to deliver seeds that are genetically pure, show high germination percentage, high vigour, and high purity in the quickest possible way. 

This task is not an easy one, but the future of agriculture depends on seeds.  VSNi are here to help.

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