Landwards Autumn 2021
People: Profession: Harry Henderson CPD
Harry Henderson
Travel, talk and turn the world around Budding agricultural engineers should be prepared to travel the world and talk to anyone, suggests Harry Henderson, IAgrE member and the AHDB’s Knowledge Exchange Manager, who specializes in farm mechanization. In the IAgrE’s Landwards podcast he suggests they might also approach designing new machines from the point of view of the farmer rather than the inventor. Harry was born into a North Wales 30
livestock farming family and has worked in Western Australia, Zimbabwe and the USA – all experiences that helped his career. After some time with John Deere – with whom he worked across Europe - he realised he
missed the agronomic work he had previously done and joined the AHDB as a regional manager in 2013. He trained in agricultural management with mechanization at
