Agricultural production system is an outcome of a complex interaction of seed, soil, water and agro-chemicals (including fertilizers). Therefore, judicious management of all the inputs is essential for the sustainability of such a complex system. The focus on enhancing the productivity during the Green Revolution coupled with total disregard of proper management of inputs and without considerin...

On the Background of precision farming and the precision positioning of variable rate fertilization, the precision farming was achieved and the per unit yield was raised by the integrated positioning method using GPS, electronic compass, and gyroscope.

The characteristic features of Japanese agriculture are rice production and its highly mechanized small scale farming system due to the limited land space. Agricultural production system in mechanization has been currently changed from mass production system to flexible manufacturing system, which became already much popular in industrial production one. This can be explained that the target cr...

Precision farming, precision agriculture or site-specific management (SSM) is a management system where crop production practices and inputs such as seed, fertilizers and pesticides are variably applied within a field. Input rates are based on the needs for optimum production at each within-field location. Since over-application and under-application of agrochemicals are both minimized, this st...

On Farm Research (OFR) ist eine Methode zur Beurteilung von Precision Farming (PF). Sie umfasst die Planung, Anlage und Auswertung von praxisnahen, großflächigen Feldversuchen, unter Einbeziehung von Precision Farming Technologien. Diese werden im landwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen durchgeführt.

Mit zunehmender Komplexität der zu erbringenden landwirtschaftlichen Dienstleistungen rückt die strukturierte Weiterentwicklung der Dienstleistungen selbst in den Fokus. Der Beitrag stellt anhand des Beispiels der Precision Farming Dienstleistung der Nährstoffkartierung die Durchführung des Service Engineering in der Domäne der Landwirtschaft vor.

a DIIAR c/o Polo of Como, Politecnico of Milan, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy [email protected] b DIMeC, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Vignolese 905/B, 41100 Modena, Italy (marco.dubbini, capra.alessandro, cristina.castagnetti)@unimore.it c Department of Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena, Italy francesco.un...

Global market economy and the growing concern about environment have been moving agricultural production into the area of conflict between economy and ecology. Increased efficiency in agricultural productivity via plant breeding, mechanization, and management techniques have all been important factors in maintaining the balance between food supply and world demand. Necessary improvements in the...

Spatial variability of yield is very important in precision farming. With a yield monitor system installed on combine harvester, the yield data can be collected automatically while harvesting. In this paper, the component and the working theory of the yield monitor system were introduced. Performance of main sensors and the method improving GPS position accuracy were analyzed. Based on the anal...