Maximising the value of commercial forage grass seed production

Germinal Holdings Ltd （GHL）在向市场提供优质饲料作物方面建立了良好的声誉，这些饲料作物满足了牲畜和奶牛场农民在追求环境可持续的集约化生产和农场利润方面的需求。GHL品种是饲料科学前沿创新的产物，有利于畜牧业。品种的种子产量是一个品种商业成功的主要因素，可以影响该品种的经济回报、寿命以及在其他国家销售的潜力。该项目的重点是解决未来牧草品种的商业种子生产成本，以确保每种产品都有利润空间，并在GHL商业模式中建立弹性和有效性。这将通过阿伯里斯特威斯大学IBERS开发的一种新的加速育种方法（称为PReSS gang）来开发种子产量的基因组选择（GS）能力来实现。强劲的种子生产结果不仅会给公司带来直接利益，而且PReSS gang方法的证明将使预期的投资回报减半，从而将任何未来的创新推向市场。

Germinal Holdings Ltd (GHL) have built a reputation on delivering to market quality forage crops which meet the needs of livestock and dairy farmers in the quest for environmentally sustainable intensification of production and profit from their farms. GHL varieties are the products of cutting edge innovation in forage science for the benefit of the livestcock industry. Seed yield of the varieties is a major factor on the commercial success of a variety and can infleunce the economic return from the variety and its longevity as well as its potential for marketing in other countries. The focus of this project is tackling commercial seed production costs of future forage grass varieties to ensure there is a profit margin to be made from each and every product, and to build resilience and efficacy in the GHL business model. This will be achieved through the development of genomic selection (GS) capabilities for seed yield by means of a novel accelerated breeding approach (called PReSS gang) developed by IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Not only will the outcome of robust seed production have direct benefit to the company, the proof of the PReSS gang approach will halve the expected return on investment time to bring any future innovations to market.