David Parsons is a professor in Crop Science at the Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden, SLU. He holds an MSc in Forage Agronomy (2005) and a PhD in Agricultural Systems from Cornell University (2008). David previously worked as a research agronomist for the Falkland Islands Government and has worked in Australia as a commercial agronomist and in beef cattle management. Following his PhD, he worked at the University of Tasmania as a senior research fellow in agronomy and agricultural systems. He joined the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2016. David conducts research in the areas of farming systems, crop–livestock interactions, crop modeling, applied agronomy and climate change adaptation.