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Map-based technologies – vegetation indices

Vegetation indices enable monitoring of crops over the growing season and, when combined with other technologies such as soil and yield maps, can support variable rate application of fertilisers and …

Putting Yield Maps to Use

Here, you’ll explore how yield maps can be used as the starting point for precision management techniques to support sustainable arable farming. This is a summary of new techniques and …

Working out yields to profit

As you saw in the previous Step, yield maps can be created to show the heterogeneity in production across a field using various tools. Here we’ll use some example screenshots …

Yield Maps in Precision Farming

Yield maps are one of the many tools available in precision farming. Here we explore how yield data are collected and analysed in order to produce accurate, spatially explicit yield …

Welcome to Week 2

Welcome to Week 2 of Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems. In this part of the course, you’ll be turning your attention to some specific precision farming …

Evaluating Social Benefits of Precision Farming

As you saw in previous Steps the social impacts of precision farming and the adoption of innovative agri-tech can be wide-ranging, from impacts on the environment through ecosystem services to …

Evaluating Environmental Benefits of Precision Farming

As you’ve discovered in the previous two Steps, precision farming has the potential to support a range of environmental benefits, from reducing inputs such as pesticides and fertilisers to enabling …

Making sense of the data

Online software platforms can now provide a management system for farmers and agronomists that can analyse field level data and help optimise farm operations. These platforms use a combination of …

What’s next

Congratulations, you’ve completed the first week of Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems. This week you’ve been introduced to the three pillars framework for sustainability and you’ve …

Types of Data to Collect in Farming

Farming involves a lot of record-keeping and increasingly, farm data is being collected and stored digitally. As new agri-tech solutions are adopted, an ever-increasing amount of data is collected which …

Sustainable intensification of food production

The global population is growing and expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050. It’s estimated that global food production will need to increase by 70%, while using less land [1]. …

The Three Pillars of Sustainability

In this step, we’ll go into more depth about the different aspects of sustainability and how these relate to arable farming and the sustainable intensification of food production. It’s helpful …

The Legal, Regulatory and Economic Framework of the Future

“The key question is to what extent, for what goals and for whose benefit precision agriculture will be used. Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, it is the …

The future farm-interviews

Yiorgos Gadanakis Can you tell us what you’re working on at the moment? My research is currently spread across the agricultural sector with a focus on farmers’ ability to …

Interviews with farmers – what technologies are you using?

We’ve interviewed seven farmers from across Europe who’ve been using a range of different precision and digital agri-tech solutions on their farms. Their experiences are shared in the Video Steps …

Course: Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems

Innovation in Arable Farming: Technologies for Sustainable Farming Systems