The science of farming with Pete Fennessy
About this episode
Pete Fennessy discusses his extensive experience in science and livestock production, particularly in New Zealand's sheep and deer industries.
Pete Fennessy has spent more than fifty years involved in science, genetics and livestock production, helping shape many of the ideas that transformed New Zealand’s sheep and deer industries. Pete spent two decades at Invermay before becoming General Manager of AgResearch’s Sheep, Deer and Equine Division, later founding AbacusBio alongside a group of colleagues and helping build it into an internationally recognised consultancy. More recently, his focus has turned to new challenges fac...
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