Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives (eBook)

Chapter 1 Precision Agriculture – from Mapping to Site-specific Application Søren Marcus Pedersen and  Kim Martin Lind 1.1. Introduction 1.2 Current PF technologies 1.3 Variable rate application 1.4 Adoption of precision farming systems 1.5 The aim and organisation of this book 1.6 Summary and main findingsChapter 2 Smart Farming Technologies – Description, Taxonomy, Economic Impact Athanasios T. Balafoutis, Bert Beck, Spyros Fountas, Zisis Tsiropoulos, Jürgen Vangeyte, Tamme van der Wal, I. Soto-Embodas, Manuel Gómez-Barbero, Søren Marcus Pedersen 2.1. Precision Agriculture as a cyclic optimisation process 2.2. Smart Farming Technologies Types 2.3. Smart Farming Technologies Taxonomy 2.4. Smart Farming Technologies economic impactChapter 3 Economic potential of site-specific fertiliser application and harvest management Markus Gandorfer, Andreas Meyer-Aurich 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Framework for economic assessment 3.3. Analysis of studies3.4 Site-specific management with respect to crop quality 3.5. ConclusionsChapter 4 Economics of site specific and variable rate herbicide application Jens Erik Ørum, Per Kudsk and Peter Kryger Jensen 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Application technologies 4.3 Planning and low dose DSS 4.4 Weed detection 4.5 ConclusionChapter 5 The Economics and Perspectives of Site Specific Irrigation Management in Australia Robert Farquharson and Jon Welsh 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Irrigation and cotton growing in Australia 5.3. Cotton Nutrition and Managing Nitrous Oxide Emissions 5.4. Method of analysis 5.5. Results 5.6. Discussion 5.7. ConclusionsChapter 6 Auto-steering and Controlled Traffic Farming – Route planning and economics Claus G. Sørensen, Efthymios Rodias and Dionysis Bochtis 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Route planning design 6.3 Results 6.4 ConclusionChapter 7 Profitability of controlled traffic in grass silage production Hans Alvemar, Hans Andersson, Hans Henrik Pedersen 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Machinery system design 7.3. Problem definition 7.4. A model for economic evaluation of CTF 7.5. Results 7.6. Discussion 7.7. ConclusionsChapter 8 Robotic seeding – economic perspectives Søren Marcus Pedersen, Spyros Fountas., Claus G Sorensen, Frits Van Evert.,Simon  Blackmore 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Economic performance 8.3 Robotic system for crop seeding 8.4 Economic assessment of early seeding and re-seeding with robots in sugar beet 8.5 Early seeding 8.6 Re-seeding 8.7 Creating re-seeding maps with UAVs 8.8 Results 8.9 Sensitivity analysis 8.10 ConclusionsChapter 9 Future perspectives of Farm Management Information Systems Zisis Tsiropoulos, Giacomo Carli, Erika Pignatti, Spyros Fountas 9.1 Introduction to Farm Management Information Systems 9.2 Farm management information systems functionalities and applications 9.3 Costing functionalities of FMIS 9.4 Adoption of FMIS 9.5 Discussion and conclusionsChapter 10 Sustainable intensification in crop farming – a case from Estonia Rando Värnik, Raiko Aster, Jelena Ariva 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Material and method 10.3 Results 10.4 Discussion 10.5 ConclusionChapter 11 How to model the Adoption and Perception of Precision Agriculture Technologies Giacomo Carli , Vilma Xhakollari and Maria Rita Tagliaventi 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Theoretical Models 11.3 Behavioural models and their application in Agricultural Sciences 11.4 Discussions and conclusion Chapter 12 Perspectives of Precision Agriculture in a Broader Policy Context Kim Martin Lind and Søren Marcus Pedersen 12.1 Introduction 12.2 PA and wider societal trends 12.3 Policy trends in Europe 12.4 Stakeholder involvement 12.5 Opportunities for small and medium size companies 12.6 Concluding remarks Abbreviations and glossary List of Authors Index