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We have thousands data points 
come in on a weekly basis,

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and I use all of that with models 
to feed the world.

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My name is Riley Vanderhout.

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I'm the breeding program geneticist 
here at Hybrid Turkeys,

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company of Henderix Genetics.

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[I’m a] city boy, 
born and raised,

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zero agriculture experience as a child.

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My job basically entails
running the breeding program.

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I have a few different programs
that I run that help me determine

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breeding values for different animals,
and from those

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I'm able to select the best turkeys
for the next generation.

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So we get thousands
and thousands of data records

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on all these birds, 
as well as genotypes.

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The DNA sequence, basically.

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We can get that from a blood sample.

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And then I have algorithms that sort
all that data

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and it helps us determine 
the best birds.

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It's just the full roundedness of it.

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I can stay at my desk and code,
which I do really enjoy.

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I get to do it now, 
plus work with animals,

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which is what I always wanted to do.

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Our farms 
are all about technology now.

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Passive data collection.

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We're CTing turkeys.

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We need to get body weights on them
without lifting them up.

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U of G, 
and specifically OAC - 

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starting blocks of my career. 

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I was trying to go vet school, 

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didn't get in.

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Those courses, 
specifically, 

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the course I took in fourth year 
was Applied Genetics.

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So those application courses that
University of Guelph has

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are very important.

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It gets you kind of a footstep
in to understand

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what a day to day
job would look like.

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From there, yeah,
did really well in that course.

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Got an offer for a master’s.

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Continued from there.