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Different breeders value different things or, better put, they emphasise different values when developing breeding strategies. One of the reasons why many breeding programs struggle to achieve results is that they face an extremely complex list of activities, which is almost impossible to achieve.

When doing the post-mortem of failed breeding programs there are certain causes that appear very often:

The program was not aligned with corporate needs (read lack of breeding strategy),
Selections were not superior (poor genetic evaluation system), and
There was no output from the breeding program (lack of deployment).