Speaker bio page for David Stevens

Bio

David is a Senior Scientist in the Farming systems team at AgResearch Ltd, New Zealand’s pastoral agriculture research institute. He specialises in the discovery and application of animal nutrition and pasture management information in dairy, red deer and sheep farming systems. This includes researching the interaction between seasonality and animal genetics on voluntary feed intake and its effect in determining deer performance, and the systems impacts of management practices, nutrition and forages in the sheep, deer and dairy industries. He is currently part of a team investigating the variations in the seasonal growth genetics of red deer. They are testing the potential mechanisms for these differences and associated sexual dimorphism variations that have been observed.