Research and insights for your agribusiness
Q&A with AbacusBio Consultant Jude Sise MApplSc
Jude joined AbacusBio in 2007, as employee number 10 or 11. Her early years with the company focused on cost-benefit analyses of technology adoption in the sheep and beef sectors. She then moved her attention to greenhouse gas modelling for the New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Inventory. These days, Jude is busy in the forestry genetics…
Q+A: Ray Mohan – AbacusBio Consultant
Ray is the AbacusBio expert on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – the resource-based analysis that allows standardised comparisons to be made between products from various sectors. For example, when we hear about the environmental impact of “plastic bags versus reusable cotton totes” or “plant protein versus animal protein”, an LCA has most likely been used…
Q+A: Megan Vasko – AbacusBio Consultant
Megan manages AbacusBio’s largest collaboration, Bayer Crop Science, a division of international health and nutrition company Bayer AG. The five-year-old partnership has matured into a robust, future-focused alliance, with a shared vision to harness data science, economic modelling, and grower-centric insights for sustainable agricultural progress. The two companies work together to integrate prioritisation and valuation…
Q+A: Mark Teviotdale – AbacusBio Chief Information Officer
Mark is our Chief Information Officer and also leads the company’s five-strong IT/software development team. He has specialist expertise across the Microsoft Stack (Microsoft’s collection of software, platforms and cloud services), using it to design and implement web and mobile applications for clients. Mark is AbacusBio’s go-to person for initiating and driving major changes in…
Consultant: Nadia McLean
‘Diverse’ and ‘uplifting’ are two words Nadia Mclean uses to describe her new role as Group Managing Director for AbacusBio. She said the focus on teamwork and culture has always been a foundational part of the company. One of the things she’s really drawn to, and proud of, is the flat structure, without unnecessary hierarchy.…
Farm consultant: Simon Glennie BSc
Simon is a farm consultant with AbacusBio and one of New Zealand’s top Farmax practitioners. He is known for his ability to identify the needs of individual farming families, before helping them develop a plan that meets those needs.
Consultant: Neville Jopson PhD
Neville Jopson is an “AB OG” (an AbacusBio Original). The route to AbacusBio Growing up in East Otago, Neville wanted to be a marine biologist, just like Jacques Cousteau on the telly. By the time he was university age, he’d spent enough time on friends’ farms to know that agriculture was his calling.
