Biography

I am an applied research leader and academic with a love of agriculture and passion for precision livestock farming. Within this broad, applied research field I continue to focus on precision cattle production and welfare. My collaborative, high impact research is transforming production systems by revealing and exploiting diversity through the application of agricultural technologies and most importantly, the extraction of (industry) value from the data generated. My current effort in this field has a focus on heat tolerance and water intake with collaborative work in synthetic biology, livestock feed base and livestock pain/wound management. My ongoing vision is to bring scientific expertise together to co-develop and demonstrate robust low carbon, biodiverse, productive, and profitable livestock systems. In parallel with this effort in Australia I work to improve the sustainability and security of global food production by applying farm systems knowledge, with a specific focus on animal-sourced protein production. Current work in this field focuses on the management of Napier Grass, the surrounding feed base and system circularity to double levels of milk and meat production in Bangladesh.