About BoviBank Ltd

BoviBank – a young company based upon more than 25 years of history
BoviBank was incorporated with limited liability in January 2002, with start-up activities in Norway from fall 2002. Through the establishment of BoviBank the founders wanted to facilitate innovation and business development based on long and substantial traditions in Norwegian dairy herd recording and breeding. To reach our goals, BoviBank will collaborate with frontline public and private research institutions in the respective fields.

The history of the company is short - however its assets are based upon almost 30 years of systematic collection of phenotypic recordings in the Norwegian Dairy Herd Recording System (NDHRS), breeding, and biological samples performed by the TINE Produsentrådgivning (http://org.tine.no, http://storfehelse.tine.no) and GENO Breeding and A.I. Association () respectively. These institutions are the building blocks of the biobank, and also its present owners.

The biobank content represents more than 8 cow generations, and more than 8 million animals (cows and bulls). Substantial work and investments have been laid down in organising, developing, running and maintaining the recording systems over the years. The value of the biobank is thus very high. Building a similar biobank would require billions of NOKs and take very many years.

The recording and sample collection system fully relies on the collaboration of the farmers. The establishment of BoviBank is thus not only a result of management decisions, but relies heavily on the commitment, quality recordings and follow-up activities of the Norwegian cattle farmers. BoviBank highly appreciates their work and sustained collaboration.