Seminar at AGROMEK

By Eivind Norum

The 5th NJF – EurAgEng – Agromek Joint Seminar in Herning.

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

Book of presentations and abstracts

Book of Abstracts - NJF seminar 2024 Download

Keynote speakers

Thomas Anken
Thomas Anken Photo: Agroscope
Thomas Anken is leading the group Digital Production at Agroscope, Switzerland. He’s member of the working group “sprayer testing” in Switzerland and was involved to setup the sprayer tests for drones. In collaboration with five federal offices he initiated the homologation process for spray drones now being practiced in Switzerland since 5 years. A part of these activities his group is dealing with other challenges of digitisation like spot-spraying or IoT-driven irrigation systems and computer vision for several applications.
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
Karolina Muhrman

Karolina Muhrman, PhD, Associate Professor in pedagogy, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University. Photo: Private
PhD, Associate Professor in pedagogy, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping University, Chief Initiative Officer Organization in Agtech Sweden, Executive director for the National Knowledge hub for agricultural digitalization (shared with Per Frankelius). Has lifelong farming experience and has run her own farm for many years. She has a degree in agriculture and has worked as a teacher in an agricultural school for 11 years. She has a university degree including chemistry, biology, mathematics and pedagogy. She has taught and researched these subjects for many years, with focus on content and learning. She did here PhD on mathematics in agriculture and agricultural education. She has had several management and leadership positions in the university. And have also led several research and development projects and programs.
Title of presentation: Towards a knowledge hub for digital technology in agriculture
Per Frankelius
Per Frankelius, PhD, is Chief Initiative Officer Innovation at Agtech Sweden. Photo: Privat
Per Frankelius, PhD, is Chief Initiative Officer Innovation at Agtech Sweden, Operation Manager (together with Karolina Muhrman) for the National knowledge hub for the digitization of agriculture (Kunskapsnav för jordbrukets digitalisering) in Sweden, and Associate professor in business administration at the Department of Business Administration at Linköping University. His research about invention and innovation in relation to agriculture is published in e.g. Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Lancet, and Agronomy Journal.
Title of presentation: Towards a knowledge hub for digital technology in agriculture
More information to come

Registration and deadlines
Registration: 24. 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
Download

A drone at work. **Photo**: Shutterstock

Program

Bus to Agromek leaves outside DGI Hotel, Herning. Time for departure will be announced in the reception. People who do not show up in time are expected to go to the Agromek conference venue on their own. Venue: Sydsalen, Entrance Agromek West. Registration from 09.00 to 11.00

Tuesday 26^th November 2024

Time	Presentations	Speakers
09.00 -11.00	Registration / networking/ visit Agromek on your own
11.10 -11.30	Introduction and welcome	Nils Bjugstad, NMBU, N
What is EurAgEng?	Claus Aage Sørensen, AU, DK
What is NJF?	Nils Bjugstad, NMBU, N

	Chair of session: Nils Bjugstad
11.30 – 12.10	Knowledge hub for digitalization in agriculture, keynote	Per Frankelius, LiU, SE
12.10 - 12.30	UAV sprayers in Switzerland, teams presentation, keynote	Thomas Anken, Agroscope, CH
12.30 - 12.50	UAV sprayers and drift measurements in Norway	Nils Bjugstad, NMBU, N
12.50 – 13.50	LUNCH

	Chair of session: Hannu Haapala
13.50-14.00	Smart Farming Sustainable Arena and projects, an overview	Nils Bjugstad, NMBU, N
14.00-14.20	Robotic and AI solutions for field phenotyping	Sahameh Shafiee, NMBU, N
14.20-14.40	Wheat head counting using robots	Mathias Johan Dyrén, NMBU, N
14.40-15.00	Adaptive Sensing in Agri-Food	Weria Khaksar, NMBU, N
15.00-15.20	Image processing in fruit and berries	Siv Fagertun Remberg, NMBU, N
15.20 -16.00	Coffee & Tea break. incl. brief intro about AGROMEK and poster session	Claus Hermansen, AGROMEK, DK Konsta Sarvela, JAMK, FI
16.00-17.30	Visit Agromek on your own
Ca. 17.30	Bus to Agromek dinner in Herning City (updated times during seminar)
18.00-23.00	Agromek dinner

Wednesday 27^th November

Time	Presentations	Speakers
09.00-10.00	Short visit of Agromek on your own / Venue Sydsalen open & coffee
	Chair of session: Weria Khaksar
10.00-10.40	Challenges and experiences from the Hands Free Farm project keynote	Kit Franklin, Harper Adams Univ., UK.
10.40-11.00	Enhanced precision weeding for robust early crop detection and organic precision spraying trials.	Rasmus Nyholm Jørgensen, AU, DK
11.00-11.20	Interpreting and Adapting Regulatory Standards for Compliance of Disruptive Agricultural Technologies: A Case Study on High-Precision Herbicide Spraying Robot	Aleksander Sendrowicz and Andres Moan, Kilter, N
11.20-11.40	UAV-Based Vegetation Biomass Analysis with RGB, Thermal and Multispectral Imagery	Mikael Änäkkälä, UiH, FI
11.40-12.00	Coffee & Tea break
12.00-12.20	Development of a low-cost telematics system for smart farming operations	Niila-Sakari Keijälä, UiH, FI
12.20-12.40	Innovating Smart Agriculture: How Finnish Future Farm is Shaping the Future of Farming	Hannu Haapala, JAMK, FI
12.40-13.00	Energy conservation in agriculture and smart farming	Sven Bernsson, SLU, SE
13.00-13.20	AgriSun – cooperation between solar power and grain production	Ingunn Burud, NMBU, N
13.20-13.40	Smart Farming Research at AU	Claus Aage Sørensen, AU, DK
13.40-13.50	Closing session	Nils Bjugstad, NMBU, N
13.50-14.30	LUNCH
14.30-15.30	Walkaround to selected exhibitors & activities at the fare
15.30-20.00	Visit Agromek on your own. Agromek closes 20.00

Frequently shuttle buses from Agromek fare to Billund airport.

About the seminar
This is the 5^th 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)

Organizing committee
- 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