The use of animal products laid the foundation for agriculture. As a result, systematic animal breeding was established early on, and regional breeds were bred. The trend of modern animal breeding shows that breeding goals and characteristics, in addition to the individual farm goals, are above all subject to overarching aspects such as consumer wishes as well as their purchasing power and market power. New and far-reaching are topics such as sustainability, climate protection, biodiversity, animal protection and animal welfare. From an international perspective, there is intense competition between suppliers of breeding animals, semen, and embryos. German breeding products have a strong global demand. Biotechnological processes such as artificial insemination and increasingly embryo transfer also made a significant contribution to breeding progress here. Challenges arise above all from enormously high national requirements as well as high national and Europe-wide bureaucratic requirements, which lead to distortions of competition and the migration of research and progress. To maintain the global competitiveness of our services, approvals and funding for intensive research are indispensable. In addition, the world's population and the global demand for animal products are steadily increasing. This offers German companies the opportunity to assert themselves on the global market in the future, if legal and political framework conditions allow it. Adapted breeding strategies as well as a more efficient use of limited resources under environmentally and animal-friendly conditions play an important role here. Germany is permanently in strong national, European, and global competition, but can currently assert itself as a global player.
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