Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

Tender description

Purpose of this opportunity: to collect samples, genotype and provide farmer with genomic evaluation results and a farmer-friendly written interpretation for a population of female youngstock (from the Holstein, Ayrshire, Friesian, Guernsey and Jersey breeds) within the Welsh dairy herd. The population for genotyping will be identified through the HerdAdvance project. Genomic evaluations for production, conformation and health traits have been available in the UK since 2012 through AHDB Dairy’s evaluation services and make a significant contribution to genetic gain. We are seeking proposals for a unit cost for genotyping 16 000 female youngstock within Wales, which includes sample collection, testing, submission of genotypes, along with cross reference and pedigree-FMT200 files, to EGENES-SRUC (AHDB’s subcontractor) for evaluation and providing farmers with the results in a suitable format. Purpose: to collect samples, genotype and provide farmer with genomic evaluation results and a farmer-friendly written interpretation for a population of female youngstock (from the Holstein, Ayrshire, Friesian, Guernsey and Jersey breeds) within the Welsh dairy herd. The population for genotyping will be identified through the HerdAdvance project. We are seeking proposals for a unit cost for genotyping 16,000 female youngstock within Wales, which includes sample collection, testing, submission of genotypes, along with cross reference and pedigree-FMT200 files, to EGENES-SRUC (AHDB’s subcontractor) for evaluation and providing farmers with the results in a suitable format.