Using organic principles to create sustainable agricultural and land solutions

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 aimed at addressing these [...]

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

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 the field down to [...]

Can statistics help animal welfare….

….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 problem is actually more complicated [...]

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 as long. All of us need the right tools [...]

Events Schedule

Events Schedule
GenStat User Conference
American Seed Association
IBS

VSNi Australia opens for business

We are delighted to announce the opening of a new VSNi office in Sydney, Australia to service Oceania. The ever increasing interest in GenStat and ASReml data analysis software has encouraged VSNi to set up in Australia and offer direct support to our growing user base in Oceania. VSNi Australia will provide sales, training and [...]

Elephants, Bees and Trees

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 ball rolling:

Elephants and Bees:
Elephants are [...]

Vision No. 7 March 2008

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 boy named Robin. An unfavourable encounter with [...]

Elephants, bees and crop protection

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
The conservation of the African elephant [...]

Happy New Year from VSN International

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 email newsletters.
Best wishes
All at VSNi.