Advances and Innovations in Agricultural Engineering The 5th NJF - EurAgEng - Agromek Joint Seminar.
November 26-27, 2024 Herning, Denmark
- Innovation, Sensors, Robotics, Smart Farming, Environment
- Design, Ergonomics, Soil Compaction, Imaging
- Safety, Big data, Data Science, Drones
- Navigation, Logistics, SD Goals, GIS Mapping
- Advisory service, Management, Education
- Networking, Horizon Europe
- Artifical intelligence, Post harvest, Plant protection
- Circular economy, Climate neutral
More information to come
Thomas Anken
Thomas Anken Photo: Agroscope Thomas Anken, Dr.Sc. ETH, Head of the Agroscope Digital Production-Research Group, Acroscope, Tänikon in Switzerland. Thomas has a broad experience within agricultural engineering research. There is a huge discussion going on in the EU-countries at the moment, about possible use of spray drones in agriculture. In Switzerland, this equipment already has been in use for some years. Thus, Thomas and his group have carried-out several trials about the introduction and use of spray drones in Switzerland. This presentation will focus on the results from these studies, in particular the use of spray drones due to deposit improvements and reduction of drift hazard, mainly when spraying in vineyards.
Title of presentation: UAV sprayers in Switzerland
Kit Franklin
Kit Franklin Kit Franklin is a Chartered Agricultural Engineer, Senior Engagement Fellow in the Engineering Department at Harper Adams University and current President Elect of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE). His expertise covers a range of topics from mechanical design to precision farming and automation. Kit’s research into “future farming systems” led to the ground-breaking and headline-grabbing world first ‘Hands-Free Hectare’ project, which established and harvested a cereal crop using autonomous machinery and then grew to become the 35ha Hands Free Farm for which he was Principal Investigator. The Hands Free projects have won multiple awards. He also co-chairs IAgrE’s Robotics Special Interest Group and is a member of BSI Technical Subcommittee AGE/6/4, developing BS 8646, “Use of crop robots in agriculture and horticulture – Code of practice.
Tentative title of presentation: Challenges and experiences from the Hands Free Farm project
More information to come
Registration: 15. October 2024
Finished abstract or poster; 10. November
For registration, please visit; https://event.organicer.dk/njf2024
Here you can
- Register as of participant and abstract or poster
- Order accommodation
- Order possible transport from Billund Airport to hotel in Herning
- Fully payment of participation and/or accommodation
- Upload of abstract. See example
More information to come
This is the 5th seminar that we together have arranged in Herning linked to the Agromek Fair www.agromek.com. We had a similar seminar in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022 (2020 cancelled due to the pandemic).
As a member of NJF or EurAgEng you will get a discount. Please contact your national contact for membership in NJF or EurAgEng. Students get a discount independent of membership.
NJF (Nordic Association of Agricultural Science) https://nordicagriculture.eu/ is an association open for Nordic and Baltic researchers, teachers, advisors, manufacturers and other people interesting in agricultural science and innovation, and this seminar highlights especially agricultural engineering for a sustainable future. EurAgeng is a European Association within Agricultural Engineering in Europe, please visit www.eurageng.eu for more information.
The reason why we have linked these seminars to the agromek fair, is mainly the golden opportunity for networking. People from companies as well as universities and research institutions & advisory service from the Northern and Baltic countries have joined the former seminars also with presentations. In order to stimulate to this networking through exchange of knowledge and experiences, we also may accept presentations at an early stage in your project as well as ideas and solutions for improved common education and advisory services and not only final project-based presentations. After the seminar, the presentations will be gathered as PDF proceedings and be downable for all participants (if accepted by the author). You can choose if you want to hold an oral presentation or a poster presentation.
When you click on the ‘registration’ site, you will get the possibility to tag off for kind of participance, and you may also upload your abstract now or later (but within deadline). When register, please fill in a title of your abstract (so we have an idea about your abstract and later presentation). The acceptance of abstract will follow shortly after deadline.
About the program, please click on the ‘program’ site.
Together we aim to solve the challenges for a sustainable agriculture.
We wish you all warmly welcome to the seminar!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Nils Bjugstad nils.bjugstad@nmbu.no (please contact me if any need of more information)
- Nils Bjugstad* (NO) - chairman. Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
- Claus Hermansen (DK). CEO for Agromek & Danish Agroindustry
- Claus Sørensen (DK). Former president of the EurAgEng, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
- Alastair James Ward, (DK) Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
- Antti Lajunen, (FI) University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Helsinki
- Sven Bernesson, (SE) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Energy and Technology, Uppsala
- Sigtryggur V. Herbertsson, (IS) Icelandic Agricultural Advisory Centre
- Vitalijs Osadcuks , (LV) Latvia University of Agriculture, Faculty of Engineering, Jelgava
- Kęstutis Venslauskas, (LT) Vytautas Magnus University, Department of Mechanical, Energy and Biotechnology Engineering
- Oliver Sada*, (EST) Institute of Technology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu
- Maibritt Kindberg, MCH Agromek
*) Member of the NJF Technology board
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