Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers
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Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers Jens Peter Hansen Specialist, ICT Business Development [email protected]
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Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers. Jens Peter Hansen Specialist, ICT Business Development [email protected]. The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture is part of Agro Food Park. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers
Jens Peter HansenSpecialist, ICT
Business Development
The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture is part of Agro Food Park
The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture contributes to transforming the latest knowledge of farming to world-class food products
The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture is a specialist subsidiary of the trade organisation Danish Agriculture & Food Council that organises 90% of all farmers
More than 500 employees
Knowledge Centre activities are
Cultivation of the soil
Animal welfare, health and breeding
Business finance, tax and law
Food quality and -safety
Building and work environment
IT in farming
Environment, nature and bioenergy
Nature conservation
Organic farming
Rural development
Advisory service abroad
Dansk landbrug4
0.000 bedrifter
Tendens: flere store og flere små deltidsbedrifter
Værdi af landbrugseksporten: 65 mia. kr.
Beskæftigelse i primærlandbrug og gartneri: 65.000 personer
Danish agriculture
30,000 farms > 10 hectare
Average 86 hectare
Tendency: More large and more small part-time farms
Value of the agricultural export: 9 billion €
Employment in farms and nurseries:65,000 persons
30,000 farms larger than 10 hectares
4,000 farms larger than 100 hectares and focus on plant production
Survey set up
E-mail with link sent to 14,000 Danish farmers
All respondents are registered users of the portal landmand.dk, which for most Danish farmers is the main entrance to web based information and services
March 2013
Part of a survey about mobile phones
More than 6,000 farmers filled in the questionnaire (response rate = 43 %)
Unverified preliminary data from a survey in the GeoWebAgri project – result will be presented at EFITA 2013 in Turin, Italy
Main findings from the survey
18 % (n =1.069) uses some kind of GNSS technology on their machinery
RTK is dominating with 41 % (n = 448) using this technology followed by EGNOS which is used by 29 % (n = 311)
Amongst farmers not using GNSS, “too small a farm” is given as reason by 51 % (n = 2.527) and “not an economical sound investment” is stated by 38 % (n = 1.908)
