Agriculture in Europe

While the adoption of precision agriculture has been modest in Europe , and the participants in the 16-18 minute in Berlin, Germany , in June the European Conference on Agriculture , and indicate that the search of political and keen interest in the technologies.

 I attended the conference and this article summarizes my observations on people and topics attract attention on the other side of the Atlantic. Approximately 400 participants attended the European Conference on precision farming , which focused on crops. About 78 participants from attending the first European conference on the accuracy associated with raising cattle. Livestock accuracy and topics included robotic milking , using the voices of the animals make in order to refine the administration (for example, can make a cow and the oil ministry
 to tell you if they contented ?), And the use of remote sensing in the Lands Department promoter . Participants from 40 countries came .
Most of those present at both conferences were researchers or students , with a sprinkling of farmers , agricultural farms and people managers. More precision agricultural crops and poster papers have been offered an engineering or agronomy research focus . Approximately 30 % of the 115 papers in conference proceedings have targeted a number of LED development type. Among these papers sensor, and seventeen (15% of the total proceedings papers ) handle some aspects of satellite or aerial and remote sensing. Eight papers (7% of the total) on the electrical conductivity .
Eleven papers lawsuit (about 10% of the total) and had some economic content. Three papers in the adoption of farmers, one from Germany, one from Denmark and the third compared Farm use the information in the United States and Denmark. Only one paper, from the University of Minnesota measures, and dealt mainly with technology transfer issues.
The United States and conferences, including the International precision farming conference is held once every two years in Minnesota, information and Agriculture Conference (infoag), organized by the Institute of phosphate and potash (PPI), it has typically included more information about the technology and the opportunities and challenges the transfer. More than that, the economic analysis used simulation. Plenary lecture on micro- economics of agriculture , Dr. Frederick kuhlmann, Giessen University , just theory. The paper is only one of the measures used to evaluate the profitability of field data specific site administration. It was about a specific site administration herbs in Germany. In addition to the three posters on the European economic analysis using the data field .
 After more than 10 years of research precision farming in Europe , and I was expecting to see and hear more about the profitability of the technology on the farm and / or business on the user level . Precision viticulture was desirable ideal application agriculture minute. Rise in the value of wine grapes and the economic importance of quality drives business interests in refining vineyard management. There was a lawsuit papers on precision viticulture from France , Chile and Slovenia , and a poster from Portugal . Offers public posters and promote the potential of precision farming in a variety of developing countries, including : Mexico, Iran , Cuba , Mauritius ( an island located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa ) . Simon Cook , of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture ) , in Colombia , and talked about the possibility of a specific on smallholder farms in developing countries manage location .