Anything in agriculture that improves efficiency by 2-3% is considered significant. If, all of a sudden, you can create a landscape where all your feeder animals are male and converting feed, which is your largest variable cost, into lean-muscle mass at 15% or 16% greater efficiency, that's very significant. It's win-win on a lot of different angles. |
There are only very minor differences between the markers in cattle, hogs, horses and dogs, or any other mammal you can think of. Once we've developed and commercialized the kit for one species, we believe it will be very straightforward to do all others. |