{"id":27065,"date":"2025-04-17T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantbreedingsoftware.guru\/?p=67"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:02:29","slug":"pushing-spreadsheets-with-your-phd","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/agronomix.com\/es\/blog\/pushing-spreadsheets-with-your-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Spreadsheets with your PhD?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you know how much time you, or plant breeders within your company, spend looking at spreadsheets? It might surprise you. I\u2019ve recently had conversations with leaders at one large seed company who estimate breeders there spend about 20 percent of their time looking at spreadsheets. That\u2019s more than two months out of the year. I have to ask: What does that cost the company? And what does it cost the plant breeder?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20% of Time Lost<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a breeder, losing 20 percent of your time to managing and analyzing spreadsheets is significant. How else might you spend that time? Reading journals and scientific literature. Keeping up with industry innovations. Evaluating the data and making better decisions. If you don\u2019t have time, or your time in these other areas is limited, your professional career might be jeopardized or hindered.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I often hear breeders say they don\u2019t have enough time to go through and compare data, especially if they have a lot of data, across a lot of traits and years. Imagine if one of those months was spent carefully looking at and evaluating the data. Would different decisions be made, and how might that affect the direction and success of your breeding program? This ultimately impacts the quality and number of hybrids or varieties a company might bring to market, and the value they deliver to growers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bring New Knowledge<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a company, if your breeders aren\u2019t spending time reading journals and scientific literature, they\u2019re not bringing new knowledge and ideas into the company. Both the plant breeder and the company might be missing out on opportunities to get in front of a technology, in terms of education, adoption and implementation \u2014 and not even know it. How tragic!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, by not adopting plant breeding software, companies might be hurting their recruitment and retention efforts. For young plant breeders or those coming from other companies where they\u2019ve been exposed to or used software based on a relational database, it\u2019s extremely frustrating to go backward and have to work in Excel spreadsheets. They know there are better and more efficient ways that are far more powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it \u2014 would you give up your smartphone of today for the old phone that used to hang, or still is, on your kitchen wall? No. It\u2019s clunky. It\u2019s only good for one thing. And you\u2019re limited as to how far you can go from the receiver.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t allow your PhDs to push spreadsheets. There are far better things they can do with their time that will ultimately help the overall company.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(First published on SeedWorld.com, August 2017 | Edited April 2025<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See how working with spreadsheets like Excel costs more than you think: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hidden Costs of Using Spreadsheets for Managing Plant Breeding Data<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Dieter Mulitze was the Founder of <\/span>Agronomix Software<\/a> – leading software for plant breeders and variety testers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32616,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[40,36,35,71,50,70,33,34],"class_list":["post-27065","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agtech","tag-data-management","tag-genovix","tag-in-the-press","tag-innovation","tag-insiders","tag-plant-breeding","tag-software"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAgronomix - Pushing Spreadsheets with your PhD?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you know how much time you, or plant breeders within your company, spend looking at spreadsheets? 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