Typology of precision farming technologies suitable for EU-farms

J. Schwarz; A. Werner; F. Dreger

Typology of precision farming technologies suitable for EU-farms

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J. Schwarz

J. Schwarz Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Institute of Land Use Systems, Eberswalder Str. 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany; awerner@zalf.de

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A. Werner

A. Werner Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Institute of Land Use Systems, Eberswalder Str. 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany; awerner@zalf.de

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F. Dreger

F. Dreger Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg, Institute of Land Use Systems, Eberswalder Str. 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany; awerner@zalf.de

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Pages:: 907–914

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789086866649_109

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This paper focuses on the development of a typology that summarizes and structures the very broad and diverse set of techniques that can be named ‘precision farming’ (PF). The typology should be suitable for EU-farms. The crops that have to be covered with the typology were determined by analysis of statistical data towards the dominating crops in the EU-countries in a reference year. Relevant procedures for conventional crop management in agricultural farming and also for management with precision farming were identified by a literature review. Main crops in the EU-27 are cereals (56.5%) and forage plants (17.7%) which cover together about 75 % of arable land (year 2005). Thus the typology of precision farming technologies was restricted to those techniques that are relevant for these two groups of crops. As factors to discriminate or group the techniques for precision farming have been used: PF application level, farming system (intensity), cultivation measures, collection of machine data, time line for availability of the technique, GPS level and information load for a farm management information system (FMIS). For applying the typology different starting levels with PF were designed: mini stands for ‘low cost’, compact stands for ‘medium costs’ and combi means ‘high-end systems’. The typology focuses on two general PF-application levels. Type I is using GPS but no VRT technique and type II is using VRT technique. General farm type I has three subtypes (regarding the usage and quality of GPS and the use of robots). General PF-application level II has five subtypes (regarding GPS, the usage of sensors, maps or both and the use of robots). The subtypes are dissected into definite segments according the relevant discriminating factors.

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