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Certificate of Achievement

Randal Oulton

has completed the following course:

Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems

EIT Food and University of Reading

This course has explored the concepts of precision agriculture and sustainable intensification, whilst looking at the impact these can have on farming systems. It has compared the different technologies that can be used to increase productivity and provided knowledge on working out yields to profit. Topics covering agri-tech have shown ways that can help reduce the environmental impacts of farm practices and identified new, data-driven arable farming techniques that can be used in the future.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Maarten van der Kamp

Director of Education

EIT Food

Alice Mauchline

Senior Research Fellow

University of Reading

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Improve your knowledge on the concepts of precision agriculture and sustainable intensification and the impact these can have on farming systems.
  • Compare the different technologies that can be used to increase productivity and know how to work out yields to profit.
  • Explore how to use agri-tech to help reduce environmental impacts of farm practices.
  • Identify which skills are necessary to implement new data-driven arable farming techniques.
  • Develop an action plan for precision farming.

Syllabus

• Sustainable arable farming

• Case studies of data driven agri-tech solutions

• Precision agriculture

• Data collection technologies

• Financial considerations

• Social considerations

• Environmental considerations

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Issued on 6th November 2020

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Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems

EIT Food