David Hudson

David is Canola Business Manager for Monsanto Australia, and as such is intimately involved in the development of GM canola for release to Australian farmers. David has worked for Monsanto since 1978 as a product development agronomist in Victoria and Western Australia.

He was also involved with the release of Ingard cotton to the cotton industry during the early 1990s. He is based in Melbourne but is a regular visitor to rural and regional Australia, as well as having an excellent appreciation of the issues concerning general release of GM crops.