Mainstreaming precision farming

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How to organise the data capture and processing to mainstream the application of precision farming for an optimisation of inputs and yield?

The final report of this Focus Group has been published.

Get all the information at a glance in the Precision Farming factsheet.

Tasks:

Identifying and assessing the different systems and use of data handling in precision arable farming and precision livestock farming.
Looking at where compatibility issues need to be resolved as well as potential solutions.
Collecting existing or potential solutions to processing large volumes of data from different types of precision farming sensors as well as existing or potential solutions to integrating these data into user-friendly farm management support systems.
Collecting existing or potential solutions to integrating precision farming systems into small and medium-sized holdings.
Listing fail factors that limit the use of the identified techniques/systems by farmers and summarise how to address these factors as well as explore the role of innovation and knowledge transfer in addressing these fail factors.

Results:

Focus Group members:

Surname, first name	Profession	Country
Bahr, Claudia	Scientist	Germany
Forristal, Dermot	Expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; expert from NGO; scientist	Ireland
Fountas, Spyros	Scientist	Greece
Gil, Emilio Contact this member	Scientist	Spain
Grenier, Gilbert	Farm advisor; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	France
Hoerfarter, Rita	Farmer; farm advisor; other type of advisor; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing	Denmark
Jonsson, Anders Contact this member	Farm advisor; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	Sweden
Jung, András	Expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	Hungary
Lokhorst, Kees	Scientist	Netherlands
Mazur, Piotr Contact this member	Farm advisor; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing	Poland
Mertens, Kristof	Expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	Belgium
Mottram, Toby Trevor Fury	Farmer; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	United Kingdom
Nacke, Eberhard	Expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing	Germany
Paree, Peter Contact this member	Farm advisor; expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; other	Netherlands
Pastell, Matti Contact this member	Scientist	Finland
Pickel, Peter	Expert from agriculture organization, industry or manufacturing; scientist	Germany
Sileikyte, Egle	Farm advisor	Lithuania
van den Borne, Jacob	Farmer	Netherlands
Vangeyte, Jürgen Contact this member	Scientist	Belgium
Facilitation team
Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J.	Coordinating expert	Spain
(Stubbe, Frank)	Task manager	Belgium
Gaetje, Emilie Contact this member	Backup	Germany

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Resources from the Focus Group members:

FAO brochure: National e-agriculture strategy (2017)

EIP-AGRI related videos:

Agri challenge: farm data