The present situation on the application of ICT in precision agriculture in Sweden Anna Rydberg & Johanna Olsson JTI Swedish Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Objective To investigate the information flow on technique intensive farms if Swedish PA-farmers have similar user requirements to Finnish farmers user requirements for facilitated decision making in PA How? By interviewing farmers and their advisors practicing precision agriculture in Sweden Conducting a case study 1
Interviews Participating farmers represented the group of farmers that have adapted most PA techniques. 5 farmers 6 advisors Questions to farmers: Farm data Precision agriculture Handling of information in crop production Questions to advisors: Experience and oppinion Crop production programmes Handling of information Case study Case: Information flow for producing milling wheat Instruction: Produce an information flow chart by drawing your own conceptual model of an annual sequence. 2
Analysis of interview responses PA technique (number of farmers) Rent Yara N-sensor (2) Own Yara N-sensor (2) Yield mapping (5) Soil mapping with GPS (5) Site specific fungicide application using Yara N-sensor file (2) Seeding with site specific P (1) Technology on farms in study Software AgroCom (Claas) (4) Farm Site Mate in PDA (2) Tivetronic between PDA and seeding ECU (1) CardWriter (1) Crop production software DataVäxt (3) Näsgård Markvägen (2) 3
Farmer- Advisor cooperation Farmer 1 5 2 3 4 Advisor Interaction in information handling Problems with existing techniques Long start up time Information from yield mapping not useful Communication between machine and equipment Bad profitability Technical problems No price on environment Expensive technique Complicated handling of information 4
Technical needs Simpler handling of information More evaluation by crop production software Standardized software Better internet connections at country side Better import and export functions between crop production software and PA information, especially maps. Map information Make drawings in maps compare between years, fileds etc. Overlap map and image information Combine map information from different software Next new investment Autosteer PDA Yara N-sensor 5
Positive towards Programs on the internet Common database Two way communication between farm computer and ECU Analysis of case study 6
Information exchange with many actors Entreprenör, inhyrd maskinpark Utförarinformation Utförarinformation Execution of task Lagar och regler Övriga kontakter, t.ex. andra lantbrukare Styrfil Försäljare Rådgivare Lantbrukare Markkartering Styrd kalkning Sådd P-gödsling K-gödsling Databaser Fältinformation Markkarta GPS Markkarta GPS Uppdatering vo-plan Vo-plan Uppdatering vo-plan Markkarta Uppdatering vo-plan Voplan Uppdatering vo-plan Maskinpark PO-teknik Styrfil kombisådd Meteorolog/väderstation Väderinformation Different ways of data transfer More execution of task Entreprenör, inhyrd maskinpark Utförarinformation Utförd N-gödsling, Spridningskarta N Yara N-sensor data Lagar och regler Övriga kontakter, t.ex. andra lantbrukare Yara Tyskland Styrfil Försäljare Rådgivare Styrfil Lantbrukare N-gödsling I N-gödsling II och/eller III Ogräsbekämpning Svampbekämpning Skörd Databaser Vo-plan Utförd åtgärd Vo-plan Utförd åtgärd Vo-plan Utförd åtgärd Vo-plan Utförd åtgärd Utförd åtgärd Maskinpark PO-teknik Yara N-sensordata Yara N-sensordata Skördekartering Meteorolog/väderstation Väderinformation Väderinformation 7
Entreprenör, inhyrd maskinpark Evaluation Lagar och regler Övriga kontakter, t.ex. andra lantbrukare Försäljare Rådgivare Efterkalkyl Lantbrukare Ekonomi Växtodling Databaser Utförda åtgärder Ekonomiskt resultat Markkarta Gödsling Ogräsbekämpning Historisk gårdsdata/tidigare års växtodling Maskinpark PO-teknik Meteorolog/väderstation Conclusions Results from Finnish study also valid for Swedish farmers Better handling of spatial information needed in PA Better communication between machinary and software Better communication between different software More evaluation directly in crop production software 8
Thank you! 9