David Parsons

Biography

David Parsons is a professor in Professor at the Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden. He subsequently worked as a forage agronomist for the Falkland Islands Government, investigating adapted pasture legume species for the challenging environment. He then returned to Australia as an agronomist for a private farming company, working with pastures, beef cattle, and cropping. His Master’s degree was completed at Cornell University, developing farmer-useable tools for forage quality prediction in North-eastern USA.His PhD studies were also with Cornell University, with the research focused on modelling the biophysical and economic impacts of crop-livestock shifting cultivations systems in Yucatan, Mexico. He then moved back to Tasmania, to work for the University of Tasmania, conducting research in the areas of farming systems, smallholder crop-livestock systems, whole farm modelling, crop modelling, forage agronomy, and climate change adaptation. In April 2016 he joined SLU, and he is looking forward developing research projects that can lead to positive results for Swedish agriculture.

Research Interest

Forage and crop agronomy; Crop-livestock interactions; Systems modelling; International research and development