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Using organic principles to create sustainable agricultural and land solutions

By VSN ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Elm Farm – The Organic Research Centre: In today’s world we can barely open a newspaper or turn on the television without seeing a piece on the problems facing our world, and how we are abusing our planet and environment. But how often do you see something on activities and programs [...]

How does water availability affect the growth rate of young trees?

By VSN ⋅ July 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Many readers will be familiar with the common use of computers throughout the forest industry. Forest management involves a great deal of number crunching and computers facilitate analysis of crops, “what if” exercises and, more recently, visualisation and mapping. Computers control harvesting heads, timber cranes and, with GPS, are used in [...]

Can statistics help animal welfare….

By VSN ⋅ July 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

….the Brook think so. This donkey is seriously suffering with lesions on the spine. Obviously it must be the pack saddle that is causing the sores so let’s add extra padding under its pack saddle to make it better. If we’re lucky this might reduce the problem, but what if the [...]

GenStat Discovery Edition 3 launched

By VSN ⋅ March 19, 2008 ⋅ 21 comments

Imagine being a painter with no brushes, or a builder with no trowel, or a chef with no wooden spoon… It would be very difficult to do your job; there are ways around it – but it might make your job much harder and take twice as long. All of us [...]

Events Schedule

By VSN ⋅ March 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Events Schedule GenStat User Conference American Seed Association IBS

Elephants, Bees and Trees

By VSN ⋅ March 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

GenStat has many applications, across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Over the coming months we will be showcasing some of our case studies and user application stories; highlighting not only the extensive abilities of our software but also the remarkable achievements of our users. Here’s a couple to get the [...]

Vision No. 7 March 2008

By VSN ⋅ March 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New Office opens in Australia VSNi is proud to announce the opening of a new office, based in Australia to support our customers in Oceania. More information is available on our home pages. Masterminding REML Some years ago, on a remote farm in deepest, darkest Lancashire was born a bouncing baby [...]

Elephants, bees and crop protection

By VSN ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Elephants are not afraid of mice; bees – that’s a different story. So believes Lucy King, a zoologist based in Kenya currently researching the interaction between African elephants and bees. Why she is leading this innovative research project will become clear, but first a bit of background. Human – elephant conflict [...]

Happy New Year from VSN International

By VSN ⋅ January 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Photo courtesy of Ms Maggie Johnston, Rothamsted Research (United Kingdom) We would like to wish all our users a very happy and safe New Year – and look forward to a great 2008. There’ll be lots of exciting developments, we can’t wait, so keep an eye on the website and our [...]

Vision No. 6 December 2007

By VSN ⋅ December 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GenStat Discovery Edition 3 launched Imagine being a painter with no brushes, or a builder with no trowel, or a chef with no wooden spoon… It would be very difficult to do your job; there are ways around it – but it might make your job much harder and take twice [...]